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About Jesse Liberty

Jesse Liberty has three decades of experience writing and delivering software projects and is the author of 2 dozen books and a couple dozen online courses. Liberty is a Senior AI Engineer at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and was a Team Lead and Senior Software Engineer for various corporations, a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, a Distinguished Software Engineer for AT&T, a VP for Information Services for Citibank and a Software Architect for PBS. He is a 21 year Microsoft MVP.

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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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  

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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Upgrading to Windows 8 Pro

If you have an MSDN account, you may be able to upgrade from Windows  8 to Windows 8 Pro.   First, login to http://msdn.microsoft.com and click on Access Benefits.  Once there, click on Go To My Product Keys and scroll down … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Podcast #79–HTML5 for .NET Programmers

Jim Jackson and Ian Gilman, authors of HTML5 for .NET Developers join Jon Galloway and myself to discuss HTML5, JavaScript and related topics.  Their book is targeted right at C#/.NET programmers who want to learn about HTML5 and JavaScript for … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Podcast #78–Rey Bango on IE10

Talking with Rey Bango and Jon Galloway about IE10, IE9, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Compatibility, Web standards and much more. Rey is a developer evangelist for Microsoft focusing on standards-based web development. He is a former member of the jQuery project … Continue reading →

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Intel Ultrabook–A longer look

In a previous posting, I explained that Intel sent me an IvyBridge Ultrabook to review.   I decided to take it on the road with me, on my tour of the Netherlands, Belgium, the UK and Bulgaria.    This was a … Continue reading →

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