ErrorCode<ERRCA0017>:SubStatus<ES0009>:There is a temporary failure. Please retry later. (The request failed, because you exceeded quota limits for this hour. If you experience this often, upgrade your subscription to a higher one). Additional Information : Throttling due to resource : <Resource>

Azure AppFabric Caches come with quota limits. Quota limits are mentioned here.

In case the <Resource> in the exception you get is:

1. Bandwidth or Transactions: This means that you are actually in need of a bigger cache since your cache usage is pretty huge. (or need to re-architecture the app so that it uses less bandwidth & does fewer transactions)

2. Connections : This might point to a bug in your code or erraneous setting in DataCacheConfiguration. Lets take the example of 128 MB cache. The allowed connection count is 5. For you to exceed this count, following are the possibilities:

a. DataCacheFactoryConfiguration.MaxConnectionToServer is set to value of more than 5 : In this case, whenever you instantiate a DataCache object from a unique DataCacheFactory, your DataCache is going to open more than 5 connections to Azure AppFabric Cache service. That would mean that you are exceeding the allowed count.

Solution: Try setting the value to 1 and try again.

b. Several instances of DataCaches created from different DataCacheFactory: If in your code you are initializing several DataCacheFactories and do a GetDefaultCache() from each one of them, then each instance of DataCache you create is going to have it's own connections to the Azure cache service.

Solution: Create only a single instance DataCacheFactory in your code and re-use it as much as possible. If you really need to have several instances of DataCacheFactories, please ensure to Dispose() them off, once they are not needed.

c. Several instances of application running with Windows Azure: It might also be a case that your application has several instances deployed and each one of them is using the same cache. In such a case you are exhausting the connections since each instance is creating connections to Azure cache service.

Solution: Upgrade your cache subscription.

 

If none of the above is a symptom for you and you still get the error mentioned in the title, feel free to post back. I'll be glad to help out.

 

Доброе утро всем! Я рад сообщить вам, что команды C# и VB «обновили» async CTP (Community Technology Preview) на конференции MIX11, которая проходит сегодня, и что оно теперь доступно на сайте Async CTP.

Помните, что CTP – это наш ранний взгляд на предложенную возможность языка под названием async, которая позволит получить нам вашу обратную связь. Вместо того чтобы выражать свое мнение здесь, пожалуйста, воспользуйтесь специальным форумом.

Мы уже получили много хороших отзывов; это обновление касается где-то десяти наиболее значимых проблем, полученных по предыдущему CTP, а именно:

• async можно использовать для разработки под Windows Phone 7. Ура!
• Новый CTP работает с Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 и не английскими локализациями. (Заметьте, что сам CTP не локализирован ни на какой язык, кроме английского, но он теперь будет работать с не английскими версиями VS2010.)
• Примеры показывают наше видение того, как async может работать с модульными тестами.
• В качестве лицензии используется “as is” EULA; что означает, вы можете использовать эту технологию в реальных приложениях на собственный страх и риск. Обратите внимание, что (1) я не юрист, так что не спрашивайте у меня советы по поводу EULA и (2) я не рекомендую вам использовать это в реальных приложениях. Это все еще очень ранняя версия технологии. Но если вы и ваши клиенты хотите жить на передовой – вы можете его использовать.
• Появился ряд новых возможностей в System.Threadin.Tasks.Datalow.dll.
• AsyncCtpLibrary_Phone.dll и AsyncCtpLibrary_Silverlight.dll теперь полностью поддерживают задания.
• Необработанные исключения асинхронных методов, возвращающих void, теперь передаются текущему контексту синхронизации.
• Мы внесли некоторые изменения в шаблон “awaiter”, повышающие производительность.
• Получаемый конечный автомат принудительно выставляет в null неиспользуемые поля, что делает сборку мусора более эффективной.
• Исправлен ряд ошибок, связанных с гонками в блоках finally, другие ошибки в кодогенераторе, библиотечном коде и в IDE.

За подробностями обращайтесь к блогу Лусиана или специальному форуму, посвященному async. Кроме того, Мэдс и Алекс только что опубликовали интервью на Channel 9, в котором они рассказывают об этих изменениях. Эти видеоматериалы находятся здесь и здесь.

Вот несколько советов по инсталляции этого пакета от знающих людей:

• Удалите предыдущую версию CTP.
• Если вы разрабатываете под телефон, установите инструменты разработки до инсталляции SP1.
• Установите SP1 перед установкой обновленной версии CTP.
• Если вы установите “hotfix” после установки SP1, он может быть несовместим с CTP.

Я рекомендую вам проверить его и написать свои мысли или вопросы на соответствующем форуме. Спасибо!

И, как всегда, огромное спасибо моим коллегам Мэдсу, Алексу и Лусиану за их основной вклад в развитии этой возможности языка и за предоставленный список изменений.

Оригинал статьи

From the blogs: Matt Zimmerman, the CTO of Canonical Ubuntu Linux is leaving the project. He will be missed, but why is he leaving?

This session discusses the steps involved getting up and running using the MPR Test Tool. It also demonstrates how to use the tool and the steps involved testing your applications. This session focuses on Windows Azure and SQL Azure. Please download the Test Tool Guide as well here

Well folks I'm back. I've been busy working on a whole slew of things around MSDN and TechNet including these blogs, our TechNet Wiki and our central profile system. You may have noticed if you've viewed your profile lately that we are in the process of introducing a new MSDN/TechNet/Expression technical profile and recognition system. We are working towards ensuring all you actively do across our properties of applications and sites is recognized and you are rewarded for your involvement. But more on that in another post later...

For now, I wanted to drop a quick line to talk about the blog platform upgrade we did last week. We made the move from Telligent Community Server 5.5 to the 5.6 release. A point release, should be easy eh? :) HA!. If we were using the platform straight out of the box, no customizations, maybe. But when you've got a whole bunch of dependencies, integrations, customizations, features that people forget about, 10,000+ blogs and the end of a long, dark, cold and rainy winter, well it takes some work. So I gotta say a big thanks to the team here who work with me on the blogs. John, Justin, Claire, Cindy, Sakthi, Sukesh, Sankar, Pam; well you guys just rock. Thanks for putting in the hours getting this release in place. Big thanks to Roger, Brian, Rich and Kelly at Telligent for their on-going support for us as well!

The changes are generally geared toward our blog authors but in the end that also benefits you. Here are some of the changes:

• It's now much easier for our bloggers to incorporate content beyond text and images. Silverlight, JScript examples, TechNet and MSDN Videos and other rich media will work a lot better.
• We also had reports about folks getting stuck in infinite Live ID Login loops. We believe we have this fixed. If you see it, please use the site feedback link on the home page and let us know.
• Prior to this release we would serve RSS feeds either from the database or from the ASP.Net Cache. We now store the RSS in files that are updated within seconds of a blog post being published or changed. This means our Web Servers and DBs are far less taxed than before. RSS traffic represents about 20x our regular page view traffic so this is a huge improvement. As a specific example, while our DB is running about the same CPU levels at peak times, the actual requests per second we are handling has trippled. That's pretty impressive.
• RSS feeds for comments per blog post are available.

In about 6 weeks, the blogs will be releasing again. At that time we will integrate into the new recognition system I mentioned earlier. If a blog author posts an article it'll appear on their profile. If you comment that'll appear on your profile (assuming you log in). There will be other actions and ways to earn recognition points and achievements by being an active member of this community. More information about the new system is available here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/ff395928.aspx

Have a great weekend. I hear the sun might show itself around here! Oh and it's mother's day here in the USA (and Australia where my mum is) - so here's to your mum's! :)

The Visual Studio 2010 MSDN documentation includes some more detailed examples (including screenshots) than previous versions. Here's a decent intro to profiling:
Beginners Guide to Performance Profiling

In a continuing effort to make the office both a fun and productive place to work, yesterday was the second annual Gordian Project salsa contest. The contest had 13 different salsas enter with a range of ingredients such as a grape based sweet salsa, one that featured baby shrimp and many with traditional spices. Everyone brought their salsas in the morning and they were left out all day for the office to enjoy and critique to their hearts content. Many, including myself, elected to skip lunch in order to save room for continued judging of which salsa would get our vote. In the afternoon the votes were emailed in, and today the winner was announced and received a gift card. Here are some great pictures from the event.

Now I say all of this to prove the point that their are many great and cheap ways to promote workplace commradery. The business supplied the gift cards for the winners, but the contest was run by the employees and they individually provided the salsas and chips for the competition. Throughout the office during the day you could hear, "I love salsa day, one of the best days of the year", to which I fully agree. There is just something about hanging out with your co workers and arguing over the range of flavors making up a good salsa, that adds another level to the normal work day. Sure a little extra time is spent visiting the salsa room to continue sampling, but in the grand scheme of things your employees can now boast on their Facebooks and to their friends that their workplace had a salsa contest with real prizes. This alone makes your work environment stand out, while at the same time building up a rapport with your employees that you want them to enjoy coming to work. Think about it, what is something you can do with your employees in the next month that would have the same effect?

There are hundreds of ways to do this, but I would encourage you to try out something as simple as a salsa contest today, your employees with thank you for it.

What about you, what does your office do for commradery?

---

The possibilities are endless with a bathroom remodel. Discover your classic side with a clawfoot tub, experiment with fresh bathroom vanities, select from a wide variety of shower doors and coordinate it all with a matching bathroom faucet. Shop PlumberSurplus.com 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for all of your bathroom needs.

JiWire, the mobile wi-fi network reaching 40 million users each month, announced today that it raised $20 million in funding led by Trident Capital. In the past year, JiWire expanded its business to enable advertising across both mobile applications and public Wi-Fi using Compass, an interactive platform that makes locating brands easier. Compass turns standard display ...

This week we're joined by Interop GM Lenny Heyman, who gives us a preview of what to expect at Interop Las Vegas 2011.

“36 Hours in Detroit” is a tiny travelogue in the May 5th issue of the New York Times.  Even with the mildly condescending tone (“struggling city”, “the recovery that Detroit is now attempting“, etc.) they did a pretty decent job of pointing out some of Detroit’s finest hot spots… especially Slows.  Seriously… if you live [...]

A site launch is always a nice way to wrap up the blogging week, so here we present the new Volusion store for CompressorWorld.com. Now we’re going to be really up front and say that we know a heck of a lot less about compressors than the fine folks at Compressor world, but to our [...]

Wow!  52 years to get this experiment to confirm the Theory of Relativity completed.  Wow!

The Gravity Probe functioned using four ultra-precise gyroscopes using spheres machined to within 40 atoms of being perfect spheres.  It then pointed at a star named IM Pegasi, and then when the star had sunspots the probe got thrown off.  The odyssey of this probe is something every software designer, architect or others should read, this can happen to any project that you initially thought was a no brainer.

Oh sure on my http://blogs.msdn.com/reaserch blog I have been critical of the Mars Climate Probe, but the NASA Gravity Probe B is something to admire.

Starting at Stanford in the early 60s, it took 52 years to get this spacecraft into space.  The material science from this experiment was awesome!  They used spheres shaped to with 40 ATOMS of perfect roundness.  How did they measure that? 

The bad news: Space isn’t bent much by Earth, so if you plan on creating a “realistic” gravity slide game, forget about it, but if you don’t worry about the reality (as you shouldn’t) in the game, then go for it.

The experiment confirms, again, that large bodies like the Earth bend space, but not very much from a human point of view. From the NASA report:

The frame-dragging effect should cause the spin axis orientation of an orbiting gyroscope to change in the plane of Earth’s rotation (orthogonal to the orbit plane) by a minuscule angle of 0.014 arcseconds (0.000011 degrees) in a year. This effect has never before been measured directly.

Now that is precision.  On the other hand, bending space isn’t the big deal that Star Trek makes out of the idea.  Unfortunate.

What is the difference between precision and accuracy?

In software there is the concept of binary accuracy, but I won’t go over it in this blog post.

 

• How do you make use of the data in your physics classes?  Do you need to make corrections in your homework now?  No.
• What do you use to reach this type of precision in programming? 
• • In software, you use the data that you get elsewhere, so if the sensor teams gives you data that is bad, you can’t make it better.

But if you want to utilize an idea that can work in a game, but not in real life, here is a picture of the bending of space, keep in mind that the diameter of this circle is quite large to get the bending shown by the Probe B spacecraft.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is how a wormhole works, for the Stargate fans.  This would be one heck of big wormhole though. 

 

Editor's Note: One of the marketing challenges faced by ecommerce merchants is finding online communities that have an interest in the merchants' products. Few observers dispute the potential of social media, provided merchants can find interested parties to be social with. We posed this challenge to Paul Chaney, Practical eCommerce's social media director. We asked him, "How do merchants find online communities that are interested in their products?" His answer follows, below. There are a number of ways merchants can find communities that would be interested in their products. Here are five. 1. Start by Listening The best place to start is by conducting an online monitoring campaign. By that I mean, "Start by listening." Consumers ...

Cloud deployment and delivery architecture offers many opportunities to reduce cost and improve service levels, sometimes too many for the beleaguered IT team. So how can your IT team identify what cloud components might be considered early opportunities for your infrastructure? Let's look at twp strategie -- Software as a Service and Platform as a Service -- and consider benefits and speed-of-adoption possibilities.

The hackers who penetrated Sony's PlayStation Network, Qriosity music service and Sony Online Entertainment are planning to launch another major attack against the company this weekend, according to a reader of an Internet Relay Chat channel used by the hackers. The hackers claim to have access to Sony's servers and plan to publicly post all or some of the information they can pilfer, which could include names, credit card numbers and addresses.

As we covered back in February, the Local Search Association (then known as the Yellow Pages Association) filed a federal lawsuit to overturn the Seattle ordinance restricting yellow pages delivery. This week, the city launched its own opt-out site. On the new site, Seattle residents can choose whether they want to receive Yellow Pages and can ...

Call deflection is among the most frequent conversations I have with clients. As I've said many times, call deflection is not call avoidance. Rather than ducking customers' inquiries, successful call deflection will save potentially millions of dollars in contact center costs and boost satisfaction among consumers who prefer to be self-reliant.

I've recently come across two examples of simple and effective call deflection tactics that I wanted to share.

Guide customers to the channel you'd like them to select. Overstock does this extremely well. Here is a screen shot from Overstock's Contact Customer Care page. The online retailer offers chat, email and telephone care. Chat is offered first in the list. Consumers are enticed by benefits of Overstock's "fast and friendly" chat -- it is "the most popular option and the quickest way to get service." Further, Overstock provides the wait time for chat -- in this case, less than five seconds -- delivering on the promise of fast. With this information, consumers will not feel herded: They will feel guided.

Put self-service content on your Contact Us page. Some customers will skip self-service and go directly to Contact Us. Consider putting self-service options in their path. eBay does this effectively. While consumers can easily click through to contact the company, there is a variety of self-service options available for those consumers who -- when it's put in their path -- may find what they want in self-service and no longer require live assistance.

I hope this is helpful. If you come across other effective call deflection tactics, I'd love to hear about them, so please comment here or email me directly at dclarkson@forrester.com.

Read more

Forrester recently published the "State Of Retailing Online 2011: Marketing, Social, and Mobile" report in conjunction with our friends at Shop.org. It is available on Shop.org (with a subscription) now.

Some highlights include:

• Understanding which marketing tactics are still leading to growth
• Examining the investment in social and the returns retailers are seeing
• Analyzing mobile and tablet adoption and strategy

Look for the full report on Forrester.com in early June.

Read more

Video becomes a critical feature for online businesses As technology pushes further into the future, it provides many more opportunities for modern day business owners. Merchants in the eCommerce realm will now find that video, once a “fancy” addition to an online store is becoming a must. Video capability has come a long way and [...]

Our strategic partners at Volusion (our eCommerce platform of choice) have officially added AutoResponderMax to their partners’ marketplace. AutoResponderMax is the only multifunction auto responder built specifically for Volusion – and even if there were others, it would still be the best (Grandma always said it’s not bragging if it’s true).  With AutoResponderMax, you can [...]

By Joseph Baker News that iPhones and iPads were secretly tracking users’ information has raised the ire of privacy advocates.  However, it should be no surprise that anything with a proximity card could be used to track movement. Researchers have revealed the latest iPhones and iPads are tracking web browsing, map searches and online purchasing.  [...]

One-third of US adults obtained online coupons, either for discounts at online stores or for brick and mortar stores, in the past 30 days, according to [pdf] a survey from the Newspaper Association of America.

Rue La La has grown tremendously over the last three years thanks to their truly engaged and empowered members. At the Shop.org Online Marketing Half-Day Workshop in New York City on May 3rd, retailers learned just a few ways the Rue La La team has grown, sustained, and enhanced their member file through strict adherence [...]

According to a new report from German firm Research2guidance there is a significant gap between the growth of Android Market and Apple’s App Store. The research forecasts that in August 2011 Android Market will overtake Apple's App Store.

read more

Google experienced a glitch of its AdWords service in the UK. The service mistakenly credited huge sums of money into an unknown number of UK customers' AdWords accounts after they tried to redeem Google’s vouchers at £100.

Pete Williams told that Google mistakenly credited £75,000 into his account after he redeemed the voucher.

"I got one of these and let Google know via their @AdWords twitter account – no response yet. Obviously I've not spent a penny of it, but it appears other people have!" he said.

read more

Here is our analysis for today’s battle between two investment programs. As for today, we choose two investment programs that offer high return on investments within short term plans and they are http://oil-cash.com and https://www.empyrealprofit.com.

read more

A plaintiff suing a John Doe defendant known only as "Tazmanian353" was granted leave to serve discovery on Google and Blogspot.com to determine, among other things, registration information, assignment, billing and payment information, source IP addresses and log files for the user known as Tazmanian353. Fodor v. Doe, No. 3:10-CV-0798-RCJ,...

My wife is a recruiter working in high technology. Recruiters are like every other profession: There are some bad ones, a bunch in the middle who are competent, and some who are truly excellent. I may be biased, but I think she falls into the latter category. Here's why I think she's so good: She thinks of the managers she's hiring for as her customers, and she spends a lot of time getting to know them and their needs.

If your company has decided that the time is right for an initial public offering, it should consider the options available to it. There are ways by which a company can become publicly traded without the lengthy and costly process that usually accompanies an IPO. A common alternative to an IPO is a reverse merger, sometimes referred to as a "reverse IPO."

Since May is National Stroke Awareness Month, and since I am a stroke survivor, I want to share with you some important information everyone needs to know -- whether you are a stroke survivor yourself, or have a recovering relative or friend. We hear of quite a few famous stroke survivors -- like actor Kirk Douglas, Vice President Joe Biden's son Beau Biden, weatherman Mark McEwen and Dick Clark.

Cloud deployment and delivery architecture offers many opportunities to reduce costs and improve service levels -- sometimes too many for the beleaguered IT team. So how can your IT team identify what cloud components might be considered early opportunities for your infrastructure? Cloud deployment strategies provide on-demand services from a virtualized environment, making the underlying technology transparent to the consumer.

Facebook and Google are both apparently considering acquisition or partnership deals with Skype. Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg reportedly has been in discussions concerning a possible purchase -- a deal that could be worth between $3 billion and $4 billion. A Skype IPO is still considered a possibility during the second half of 2011. The IPO would be expected to raise around $1 billion.

ListenLogic is moving into the social CRM sphere after building expertise with its two related offerings: a reputation management application that helps corporations identify threats before they reach crisis proportions, and a social market research and listening product. "These were the jumping-off point for our latest product," said founder and CEO Mark Langsfeld, "our Enterprise Social CRM product."

Most of the talk about protecting users' privacy on the Web has centered on preventing the collection of information that would aid companies in creating targeted ad campaigns. I appreciate the efforts of all those people pushing for legislation that would protect me from the annoyance of spam emails and popup ads. But I wish they would expend more time and energy looking for ways to stop data breaches like the Sony debacle.

Voices Heard Media, a company that builds tools to embed onto several mobile and social platforms, announced improvements to EventBox this week. EventBox is part of a suite of embeddable apps designed to increase audience engagement. CEO Will Overstreet says he got the idea for the app from his experiences as a former NFL player ...

Riverbed integrates open source packet analysis technology into its Cascade portfolio.

Cloud vendor chooses to provide both VMware and OpenStack.

A hack created by frustrated Windows Phone 7 (WP7) users to help them update their phones sooner rather than later has come back to bite many of the impatient.

Apple's Chinese factories criticized, Oracle commits to open source and Novell's Mono future is in doubt.

Kao što je već poznato, ukoliko živite u Bosni i Hercegovini ne možete svoju Windows Phone aplikaciju objaviti na Marketplace-u. Pored programera iz BiH, programeri iz velikog broja zemalja nisu u mogućnosti da se registruju na Windows Phone Marketplace-u i objavljuju svoje aplikacije.

Od početka maja, svi programeri WP7 aplikacija iz zemalja Centralne i Istočne Evrope mogu da svoje aplikacije ponude korisnicima putem portala APPA Market. APPA Market je kreiran od strane firme APPA Mundi, i jedan je od 5 Global Publisher portala namijenjenih programerima iz zemalja u kojima nije moguće koristiti Marketplace. Više o Global Publisher portalima možete saznati na sesiji Making Money with your Application on Windows Phone sa konferencije MIX 2011.

Kako se koristi APPA Market?
Proces je veoma jednostavan, i sastoji se od 5 koraka:

1. Registrujete se za APPA Market nalog
2. Uploadujete vaše aplikacije na sajt APPA Market (u .XAP datoteci kreiranoj na Release konfiguraciji)
3. APPA Mundi objavljuje vašu aplikaciju na Marketplace
4. APPA Mundi vas informiše o statistikama (broju preuzimanja i zaradi)
5. APPA Mundi vam isplaćuje za vaše plaćene aplikacije.

Putem portala APPA Market moguće je objavljivati i update-ovati aplikacije na Windows Phone Marketplace, kao i vršiti tzv. Developer Unlock WP7 aparata. Servis je na raspolaganju svim programerima iz zemalja koje nemaju direktan pristup Marketplace-u (sa fokusom na Centralnu i Istočnu Evropu), a studenti imaju popust na usluge koje nudi ovaj portal, a taj popust ostvaruju kroz članstvo u DreamSpark programu.

Detaljne informacije o uslugama koje nudi APPA Market možete pronaći na stranici http://www.appamarket.com/faq.aspx.

In diesem Dokument beleuchtet die Unternehmensberatung Creative Intellect Consulting die Vorteile und Herausforderungen frühzeitiger Tests (Early Lifecycle Testing) in Bezug auf bestimmte technische Testtypen aus dem Bereich der Leistungstests.

Frühzeitige Tests sorgen für geschäftliche Vorteile da IT-Organisationen dadurch bei geringeren Kosten mehr erreichen können. Viele Organisationen haben sich jedoch auf die Einführung von frühzeitigen Funktionstests konzentriert und das Potenzial frühzeitiger Leistungstests weitestgehend ignoriert.

Ziel des Dokumentes ist es, Verantwortliche in diesem Bereich auf den neuesten Kenntnisstand zu bringen und gleichzeitig Mythen und Hürden zu beseitigen, welche die Adaption blockieren. Die Lösungen für diese Mythen erfordern erstens eine genauere Betrachtung dazu, wie sich Leistungstests zusammensetzen, und zweitens einen pragmatischen Ansatz dazu, wie Sie Ihre Ziele erreichen.

Lesen Sie hier die Studie „Vorteile und Einsatz von frühzeitigen Leistungstests“.