Tag Archives: Cloud

How to fallback when jQuery on CDN fail

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Google and Microsoft provide their own Ajax Content delivery network which deliver JavaScript libraries like jQuery, Knockout, Angular etc. for developers for free!

As a web developer you are more than happy to refer them on your web pages and take the full benefit of CDN. But what if they fail? You will simply look bad!

Fortunately there is a simple trick that let’s you fallback to your web server’s JavaScript files.

Check out this blog for details: Simple trick to silently fallback when CDN’s unreachable.

Have a feedback? Let me know @nishanil

Windows Azure Commercial Pricing Announced

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Today Microsoft officially announced the business and partner model for the Windows Azure platform including service level agreements and support programs.

And here is the link.  Also at here.

This part of the blog is really interesting:

“Windows Azure compute hours are charged only for when your application is deployed so while developing and testing your application you may want to remove the compute instances that are not being used to minimize compute hour billing”

Cheers!