Monthly Archives: November 2012
Creating A Win8 App From Scratch–A Scrolling Home Page
In a previous article I discussed the project that I’ll be building in Windows 8. We started with a couple screen mock-ups and then passed these to the designers who came back with preliminary designs. While these designs were not … Continue reading
Posted in Essentials, Metro, Mini-Tutorial, Patterns & Skills, Windows 8
Tagged Mini-Tutorial
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Windows 8 and Geolocation
In this posting, we’ll look at how to track location coordinates in Windows 8. (Click on image for full size) In order to get this to work, we need to be able to obtain the values we’re displaying (e.g., for … Continue reading
Intel Ultrabook–Wrapup
In a previous posting I described the IvyBridge Ultrabook I was given to review. This is the third and final review. In short, this is a great machine, and it has been my primary laptop since I got it. … Continue reading
Posted in Hardware, Observations, Opinion, Windows 8
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Yet Another Podcast #83–Jon Galloway on Azure and ASP.NET–What’s New.
Jon Galloway joins me for a wrap up of what is new in Azure, ASP.NET and surrounding technologies. A /build wrap up that starts with the Day 2 Keynote and walks through all the new cool stuff coming out of … Continue reading
Posted in Azure, Essentials, HTML5, JavaScript, Mobile, MVC, Observations, Open Source, Patterns & Skills, Podcast, Visual Studio, Windows 8
Tagged YapCast
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Is the Kindle Obsolete? One Man’s Opinion On A New Alternative.
Flying home from Desert Code Camp yesterday I noticed that one or two of the passengers had a new type of reading device in which each page of the book was on a separate piece of paper, all glued together. … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #82–Guy Smith-Ferrier on Internationalization
Guy Smith-Ferrier is an internationalization software architect located in the UK. We discuss internationalization, globalization and localization (which are not, I learn, all the same thing!) Related Links Guy’s Blog .NET Internationalization Listen | Yet Another Podcast
Posted in Internationalization
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Creating A Windows 8 Application From Scratch
Phil Japikse, Michael Crump and I set out to create three related applications from scratch. That is, a Windows 8 version written in XAML with C# (me), a Windows 8 version written in JavaScript (Phil) and a Windows 8 Phone … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #81–Mary Jo Foley on /Build &Windows 8
Mary Jo Foley joins Jon Galloway and me in a free wheeling discussion and review of /Build 2012, Windows 8, Windows 8 Phone and Azure. Mary Jo is the editor of ZDNet’s All About Microsoft blog and the co-host of … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Essentials, Observations, Opinion, Windows 8, WindowsPhone
Tagged YapCast
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Yet Another Podcast #80–Miguel de Icaza & Mono
Miguel joins Jon and me to discuss Mono and Xamarin and the future of open source C# coding for iOS and Android. Related links: Core Mono: http://github.com/mono The Mono organization on GitHub http://mono-project.com The Mono web site. http://xamarin.com Miguel’s company … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, Essentials, Languages, Migration, Mobile, MVC, MVVM, Observations, Open Source, Patterns & Skills, Podcast, WindowsPhone
Tagged YapCast
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