This Week I Learned - Week #99

This Week I Learned:

* The Azure portal now joins the  list of sites that support keyboard shortcuts

Azure’s Key Vault helps customers safeguard and control keys and secrets using Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) in the cloud.

Michele Leroux Bustamante recommends migrating Cloud Services (which may use Worker Roles) to Azure Web Sites. WebJobs can help Azure Web Sites read from a Queue & replace the need for a Worker Role. WebJobs has the advantage that the history of jobs running can be maintained.

The Microsoft Band fitness tracker is platform neutral, Office has been opened up to all Cloud services to fight back against iWork, iCloud, Docs and Drive.

RWD (Responsive Web Design) and performance CAN play well together

* ELSS schemes of mutual fund has given an average return of 66% in last year and 26% in last 3 years, turning the maximum 80c limit of Rs. 1.5 lakh into Rs. 2.49 lakh and Rs. 3.00 lakh rupees respectively

* Peanut allergies—which appear to have quadrupled in the last two decades and now cost billions of dollars to accommodate—seem to be preventable with a simple, counterintuitive measure: eating peanuts - The Atlantic

* American Sniper, based on Chris Kyle's memoir about his four tours of duty in Iraq, has so far earned more than $320 million to become the highest grossing war film in history.

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