Ed Price

We're following up to our previous announcements about Small Basic Website and SBO:  NEW UPDATES: Small Basic Website 2.1 & Small Basic Online 0.91 NEW RELEASE: Small Basic Online Public Preview (v0.9) We haven't been blogging enough about what's going on, so let's see if we can change that! Our progress continues! From 2019's efforts, we made some updates! Big thanks to our 2019  Hackathon website team:  Casey Schaertl , Peter Durham, Ian Johnson, Andrew Cook, Debbie Chang, Ken O. Bonn, Angela Vu, Maira Wenzel, Austin Suarez, Devagnanam Jayaseelan, Liz Bander, and Duncan Chalmers. Small Basic Website 2.2 is a set of improvements from our 2019 Hackathon efforts, including the release of Small Basic Online 1.0.  Here is SB Website 2.2: What's New - SB Website 2.2: Home Page : Updated Design : Our design is simplified, without the rotating banner. The color/brand is more consistent now with green. Our Download and Online

On  3/13/19 , we mentioned that we now have a Mainframe Rehosting section on Microsoft Docs! Also on  2/19/19 , we announced our Mainframe Migration articles on the Azure Architecture Center's Azure Cloud Adoption Framework.  Now, we're back to talk (write) about our latest Mainframe Rehosting articles on Microsoft Docs! Updated Get Started article:  First up is our updates to our  Get Started  article. We have new sections about: Mainframe migration  - A quick explanation and link to the Mainframe Migration guide in Azure CAF.  Micro Focus rehosting platform  - We now include a link to our new Docker Container article. TmaxSoft OpenFrame on Azur e - With a new section in Mainframe Rehosting, we explain the two new articles. Considerations  - This section gives a high-level tour of considerations to keep in mind for Compute, High availability and failover, Scalability, Storage, and Backup & Recovery. These link out to various articles, including the new Co

Today we're going to do a very simple Small Basic tutorial. We're going to say hello to the moon! Boot up Small Basic, and let's get started! You can find Small Basic over at  http://www.SmallBasic.com   Also check out the Small Basic blog: http://aka.ms/SmallBasicBlog And here is my Small Basic book (with Majed):  http://aka.ms/SmallBasicBook   Type this in: =============== GraphicsWindow.TItle = "Hello Moon: The Program" GraphicsWindow.Width = 320 GraphicsWindow.Height = 240 GraphicsWIndow.DrawImage("C:\Small Basic\backgroundbmp", 0, 0) GraphicsWindow.BrushColor = "White" GraphicsWindow.FontSize = 50 GraphicsWindow.DrawText(10, 120, "Hello Moon!") =============== Great. Except it will throw an error, because you don't have the image! Here's what you do... 1. Download this image (right-click and Save it): 2. Be sure to save it where you want it! 3. Then update the

Hello! This blog exists to tie in a few different blogs I author on. I need a single blog that creates a feed of all my posts. So here you go! My blogs will show up in my Amazon author profile here: https://www.amazon.com/Ed-Price/e/B01COD6W2K/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_2 Hmm. What a pointless blog post. I know, here's my first blog on MSDN, from 2011: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/user_ed/about-user-ed Who am I? I'm User Ed, an Experience Program Manager on SQL Server and former Technical Writer on the Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services team. Before that I was on the Microsoft Hardware team (webcams, mice, and keyboards), and before that I was on Microsoft Surface. I've been working at Microsoft since 2005. Over the years, I have accumulated an Associate of Applied Arts in design and animation, a Bachelor of Science in Business Management, and a Master in Business Administration, focusing on Technology Management. From my work at Micros