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Universal Win Apps: Shared Project vs Portable Class Library – Advantages and Disadvantages
With the introduction of Visual Studio 2013 and the unified Windows runtime, developers can...
Date: 09/10/2014
Designing Great UX for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Apps
YOU’RE INVITED! Great apps that meet customer needs are essential to the success of your startup, as...
Date: 01/22/2014
Enterprise Library - Open Development Model
WHAT Last week at the MVP Summit, Microsoft patterns & practices announced the Open Development...
Date: 12/02/2013
Seven Reasons Clean Code Matters by Pluralsight
Interesting points! Particularly the fact that your code is not just for compilers, it is for humans...
Date: 11/19/2013
Developer’s Guide to Enterprise Library, 2nd edition
INSIDE THE GUIDE Foreword by S. Somasegar Foreword to the 1st edition by Scott Guthrie Welcome to...
Date: 11/18/2013
Windows 8.1 Developer Training: Geek Edition
COURSE OUTLINE Overview of Windows 8.1 Developer Platform What’s New in XAML and HTML Apps...
Date: 11/14/2013
Visual Studio 2013 Launch TODAY
Visual Studio Online A set of development services and offerings, integrated with Windows Azure to...
Date: 11/13/2013
Visual Studios 2013 – Virtual Launch Almost Here!!!
go͝odē UP Download Visual Studio 2013 (also available on MSDN subscriber downloads) Save the date...
Date: 11/08/2013
WEBCAST: Getting Started with UX – for Startups
TITLE Getting Started with UX - for Startups DESCRIPTION We all know how important User Experience...
Date: 11/08/2013
Things #Startups May Not Know About #Azure
Co-founder with PHP Developer Experience, Did you know? Azure Web Sites run PHP by default. Azure...
Date: 11/07/2013
Check TechBooks for Windows 8.1 App
TechBooks TechBooks is a handy Windows 8.1 app that brings all the freely available MSDN and...
Date: 11/04/2013
Hackathon In-A-Box
Just want to mention this resource from Microsoft’s partner Socrata - It is a guide made...
Date: 11/01/2013
ASP.NET Updates
Following with the launch of VS2013 ASP.NET a slew of frameworks were also updated and made...
Date: 10/31/2013
MongoDB and Azure
MongoDB has become very popular within the #startpup community. Windows Azure provides full support...
Date: 10/31/2013
Free ebook: Programming Windows Store Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, Second Edition (second preview)
Microsoft Press is pleased to offer the second preview of Kraig Brockschmidt’s in-depth ebook on...
Date: 10/31/2013
Windows Phone 8 gets ALL NINE FIPS 140-2 Validation Certificates
Windows Phone 8 received all nine cryptographic module certificates from the US CMVP and Canadian...
Date: 09/17/2013
Emerging Technologies I Didn’t Think Local Gov Was Looking At
I just came across an interesting article from Public CIO at GovTech.com, it covers six technologies...
Date: 06/12/2013
WinRT WebView and Zoom Level
Earlier this week I was asking myself “How can I change the Zoom level of a WinRT WebView”? When the...
Date: 06/06/2013
A new SQLite wrapper for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 – The basics
Came across this goodie… these are the basic operations Opening a database (wraps the...
Date: 06/04/2013
Special Offer to All Mobile Developers: Windows Phone 7, iPhone, Android, BB
Re-introducing the Device Loan Program for GOVERNMENT, HEALTHCARE AND EDUCATION Apps! This is a...
Date: 06/04/2013
TECHED NEWS: Scott Guthrie’s goodies post
SUMMARY Dev/Test in the Cloud: MSDN Use Rights, Unbeatable MSDN Discount Rates, MSDN Monetary...
Date: 06/03/2013
JUST RELEASED: Developing a Windows Store Business Apps with C#, XAML, and Prism
This Patterns & Practices latest drop provides guidance on how to create a Windows Store...
Date: 05/23/2013
Introducing ViViX–An Idea In My Head Anyway :-)
Virgin Virtual eXplorer (ViViX) (the name reflects that which could have been … And, I don’t...
Date: 05/22/2013
Technology Trends Impacting Government IT
Cloud Computing With its massive data centers, cloud computing delivers virtually infinite...
Date: 05/07/2013
Joelcitizen Unplugged: C++ and the Windows Store Journey
Many thanks to our guest Nathan Manis (Senior Escalation Engineer, Windows Store C++) for being our...
Date: 05/06/2013
Introducing the Windows Store Infokit app
This app is very simple but it can be very useful in helping developers get easy access to relevant...
Date: 04/29/2013
Sample Browser: A Windows Store App Samples Catalog
Just came across this goodie!!! It is a windows store that allows you to search and download code...
Date: 04/29/2013
WACK!! Don’t Publish Your App Without It…
Oh the thrill of knowing you finished you app and are ready to publish it!!! You can’t wait to...
Date: 04/26/2013
The 11 Phases of a Web Developer’s Career (As Illustrated by Memes)
HAPPY MONDAY EVERYONE… Here is a MUST SEE to start the week Phase 1 – Noob Phase 2 – The First Steps...
Date: 04/22/2013
ATTENTION ALL GOVERNMENT DEVELOPERS
don’t miss next week’s v i r t u a l s u m m i t have you registered for...
Date: 04/19/2013
Play nice with Apple, Google
Interesting article on USATODAY… Happy Monday! THE TOOLS DEPARTMENT free/trial tools for...
Date: 04/15/2013
Joelcitizen Unplugged Series
Join my joelcitizen unplugged series every Tuesday from 1:00 – 1:30pm. This is informal, open...
Date: 04/15/2013
SIRIUS… Really looking forward to this one…
Who follows the extraterrestrial phenomena?… this upcoming movie (trailer)out on April 2 REALLY got...
Date: 04/12/2013
Microsoft Excel GeoFlow–WOW!!!
As if Excel wasn’t already THE #C (number cruncher ) of choice … Microsoft has just announced...
Date: 04/12/2013
Windows Store Development–Retrospectives (Part IV)
Back to Part III What About Starting Fresh? When code migration/portability from/to Windows...
Date: 04/08/2013
Windows Store Development–Retrospectives (Part III)
Back to Part II What About Skill and Code Reuse? In order to help clarifying some myths and...
Date: 04/04/2013
Windows Store Development–Retrospectives (Part II)
Back to Part I What If My Requirements Don’t Fit Into The Windows Store Application Constraints?...
Date: 04/03/2013
Windows Store Development–Retrospectives (Part I)
Based on work from Mat Velloso, Sr. Software Development Engineer Introduction With Windows 8 the...
Date: 04/02/2013
Who are the TOP 25 Government Technologists of 2013?
www.govtech.com published the top-25 list. I like the title they gave the list “Doers, Dreamers and...
Date: 03/22/2013
Joelcitizen Unplugged: Are You a Citizen Developer?
Please join me this Friday, March 22 from 3:00 – 3:30pm for the new series Joelcitizen Unplugged. In...
Date: 03/20/2013
Shorties 002: WebView Anchoring, Crash Logs, PDF Viewer
WEBVIEW AND ANCHOR LOCATION Sometimes you want to display HTML in the WebView control but jump to a...
Date: 03/19/2013
Latest Kinect for Windows SDK
Key Links Latest SDK announcement Download the SDK Kinect for Windows Kinect for Windows key...
Date: 03/19/2013
Shorties 001: In the news…
Africa Is a Land of Immense Opportunity for Microsoft Seattle Times - Mar 16, 2013 Microsoft...
Date: 03/18/2013
HOL Machine Configuration
What You Would Need The HOL sessions are BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). Therefore you MUST have the...
Date: 03/14/2013
Shorties 000: The Q&A Alley, and More…
The Shorties Series Many times I come across short and direct questions that perhaps are too shot to...
Date: 03/12/2013
Android Developers Welcome to Azure Mobile Services
Approximately six months ago the Azure team released the Azure Mobile Services. The one thing...
Date: 03/09/2013
Windows Store apps and the database question
With traditional desktop apps the requirement for onboard data, roaming data, data synchronization,...
Date: 03/07/2013
Just Released: VSTO, Azure Updates, More…
Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 The Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012...
Date: 03/05/2013
what my peers are talking about: Alive with activity
WINDOWS 8 APP DEVELOPER BLOG: Alive with activity, Part 1: Working with tiles, badges, and toasts...
Date: 03/01/2013
Mi primer blog en español: Forma fácil de expandir tu mercado de apps móvil
Expansión: Todo desarrollador capitalista (y aun los no capitalistas) desean expandir el alcance de...
Date: 02/28/2013