How to use ‘Free’ or ‘Royalty Free’ Art A... Michael Cummings, January 1, 0001 A large part of my current job is to work with developers to encourage and help them create apps and or games. Many developers do not have the necessary skills to create quality artwork for their app or ... How to use ‘Free’ or ‘Royalty Free’ Art A... 0 0 0
Musings on Why I Switched Back to an iPhone from a WP8 Device MOSSLover, January 1, 0001 Last month I decided to switch to Verizon and in doing so switch to an HTC 8x after around 4 or 5 years with an Apple iPhone. I wanted to try something new and see what the other side was like and I wanted ... Musings on Why I Switched Back to an iPhone from a WP8 Device 0 0 1
Super stylin Richard Jones, January 1, 0001 Firstly most impressed that I can now blog from my ipad courtesy of Blogpress.comSelf promoting my ios bin collections app for scambs.https://itunes.apple... ... Super stylin 0 0 0
Website Authentication with Social Identity Providers and ACS Par... Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 This is the second in a series of articles looking at using Windows Azure Active Directory Access Control (formally Windows Azure Access Control Service), to integrate the authentication services provided ... Website Authentication with Social Identity Providers and ACS Par... 0 0 1
EPiServer 7 – issue with debugging and creating login user ... Magnus Karlsson, January 1, 0001 Today I made a clean, brand new install of EPiServer 7 on a Windows 2012 server using VS2012. For googlers finding this post with any issue present in title, just look for the bold text to try my solutions ... EPiServer 7 – issue with debugging and creating login user ... 0 0 0
Windows Azure Mobile Services now with HTML Client Support Adam Grocholski, January 1, 0001 In case you missed, last week the Windows Azure Mobile Services shipped support for HTML clients. Here’s a recap. The HTML client provides a JavaScript library that developers can use when building both ... Windows Azure Mobile Services now with HTML Client Support 0 0 0
Windows 8 for HTML and JavaScript Developers Adam Grocholski, January 1, 0001 Earlier today I presented a session at Mobile March on Windows 8 for HTML and JavaScript developers. Rather than give you my slides, I thought I’d give you links to resources on the various features I ... Windows 8 for HTML and JavaScript Developers 0 0 0
What’s New in Windows Phone 8 Adam Grocholski, January 1, 0001 Earlier today I presented a session at Mobile March on the new features in Windows Phone 8. Rather than give you my slides, I thought I’d give you links to resources on the various features I discussed. ... What’s New in Windows Phone 8 0 0 0
Android to Windows 8 Part 5: Building a Simple User Interface Adam Grocholski, January 1, 0001 Over the past several weeks I've been working on some content I'm excited to finally share with you through a series of blog posts. This series will introduce you to Windows 8 development from an Android ... Android to Windows 8 Part 5: Building a Simple User Interface 0 0 0
Converting PHP’s “openssl_seal” and “open... Strenium, January 1, 0001 I've been doing a bit of external API integration work lately. Sounds mundane (and it is for the most part) - but there was one notable "gem" I had to tackle. To make long story short, there's this external ... Converting PHP’s “openssl_seal” and “open... 0 0 0
Sad that Google Reader is coming to an end Kevin Shyr, January 1, 0001 I just never liked Twitter; RSS is my way. But is that because Google Reader has been such a good tool? Now it's gone, what will I use? I don't know just yet, but I really don't think I'll go back to Twitter. ... Sad that Google Reader is coming to an end 0 0 0
Android to Windows 8 Part 4: Running the Windows Store Applicatio... Adam Grocholski, January 1, 0001 Over the past several weeks I've been working on some content I'm excited to finally share with you through a series of blog posts. This series will introduce you to Windows 8 development from an Android ... Android to Windows 8 Part 4: Running the Windows Store Applicatio... 0 0 0
Adding Background Audio Capability to Windows Store Apps Adam Grocholski, January 1, 0001 If you’re building a Windows Store app that plays audio you have the option of being able to play your app’s audio in the background (i.e. when the app is not running). Over the course of three posts I ... Adding Background Audio Capability to Windows Store Apps 0 0 0
Review: Feed Me for Windows Phone Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 Prior to the announcement that Google will be shutting down Google Reader I was using Feed Reader to keep up with a number of blogs. The announcement of course sent me scrambling like everyone else. The ... Review: Feed Me for Windows Phone 0 0 0
Website Authentication with Social Identity Providers and ACS Par... Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 This article is the first in a series of three articles looking at using the Windows Azure Access Control Service to implement web site authentication using social identity providers. It will show how ... Website Authentication with Social Identity Providers and ACS Par... 0 0 8
Upcoming Technology Events MOSSLover, January 1, 0001 Hey guys it’s been a busy year so far. I have a lot of goals unrelated to technology, but fear not I will be at Code Camps, Other Tech Events, and SharePoint Saturdays. Here is a list of my upcoming speaking, ... Upcoming Technology Events 0 0 0
Android to Windows 8 Part 3: Exploring the Windows Store Project Adam Grocholski, January 1, 0001 Over the past several weeks I've been working on some content I'm excited to finally share with you through a series of blog posts. This series will introduce you to Windows 8 development from an Android ... Android to Windows 8 Part 3: Exploring the Windows Store Project 0 0 0
Disabling DirectAccess Functionality in Windows 8 Adam Grocholski, January 1, 0001 Let me start by saying I love DirectAccess in Windows 8. It’s great for accessing resources on the Microsoft network when I’m not in the office (which is about 90% of the time). DirectAccess, is case you ... Disabling DirectAccess Functionality in Windows 8 0 0 1
C# on Android and iOS with Xamarin bconlon, January 1, 0001 I had always assumed Android was limited to Java and iOS (iPhone/iPad) was limited to Objective-C, but you can now use Mono for Android and MonoTouch for iOS to write your apps in C#.I didn't know this ... C# on Android and iOS with Xamarin 0 0 1
Android to Windows 8 Part 2: Creating Your First Windows Store Pr... Adam Grocholski, January 1, 0001 Over the past several weeks I've been working on some content I'm excited to finally share with you through a series of blog posts. This series will introduce you to Windows 8 development from an Android ... Android to Windows 8 Part 2: Creating Your First Windows Store Pr... 0 0 0
Android to Windows 8 Part 1: Setting up the Development Environme... Adam Grocholski, January 1, 0001 Over the past several weeks I've been working on some content I'm excited to finally share with you through a series of blog posts. This series will introduce you to Windows 8 development from an Android ... Android to Windows 8 Part 1: Setting up the Development Environme... 0 0 0
MonoTouch MKMapView Zoom Level Sazzad Hossain, January 1, 0001 [cross posted]I needed to implement a zoom level similar to Google Maps style for MonoTouch iOS and lucky me after doing little search on the web I found this article http://troybrant.net/blog/2... ... MonoTouch MKMapView Zoom Level 0 0 0
Announcing Android Support for Mobile Services Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 I'm extremely excited to announce the release of our official Android SDK for Windows Azure Mobile Services. Android developers now have easy access to structured data storage, authentication, push notifications ... Announcing Android Support for Mobile Services 0 0 0
March 2013 Chicago IT Architect Group Meeting Registration Open Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 2013 is speeding past us already with two great presentations over the last two months. For March we have asked Eric D Boyd to discuss what is new in Windows Azure and its implication to your architecture. ... March 2013 Chicago IT Architect Group Meeting Registration Open 0 0 0
HP Slate 7 – the $160 Android Jellybean Device Ken Hortsch, January 1, 0001 This is a great play by HP. It’s not a knock-off Android O/S, it’s Jellybean with all the goodness of Google Now, Gmail, Drive, Maps, etc. These other el cheapo devices out there are giving Android a bad ... HP Slate 7 – the $160 Android Jellybean Device 0 0 0
Love the Google Nexus 7 Ken Hortsch, January 1, 0001 Here’s just a couple reasons why: My eyes are getting old. Double tap on a web page and zoom to that DIV. Awesome! Fonts adjustable in reader and on Chrome browser too. Launch Navigate from home while ... Love the Google Nexus 7 0 0 0
Exporting XML Comments to Your Application Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 Recently I blogged about adding SQL Doc Documentation to you Application. This makes it easy to keep your documentation visible and more likely current. I wanted to do the same thing with my code documentation. ... Exporting XML Comments to Your Application 0 0 0
Check Out the New Windows Azure Hub on Channel 9 Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 Several weeks ago we launched a new hub for Windows Azure on Channel 9. This hub will serve as an index and entry point for all video content related to Windows Azure. Since the launch we have already ... Check Out the New Windows Azure Hub on Channel 9 0 0 1
Playing with Windows 8 Sensors – Light Sensor Vijaya Malla, January 1, 0001 Its been a great ride for all of us who Love Technology and play with what it can do for us with the devices that we have. In search to explore new stuff that can be done with the wide range of sensors ... Playing with Windows 8 Sensors – Light Sensor 0 0 0
Google Maps Web services API wrapper for C# Eric Newton, January 1, 0001 Just released a new version of my gmaps-api-net (Google Maps Web Services API) for c# due to some bugs in the building of urls in the previous version, v0.10.0. Go snag it from http://nuget.org/packages/g... ... Google Maps Web services API wrapper for C# 0 0 0
ImageResizer, AzureReader2 and well… Azure (duh!) Chris Skardon, January 1, 0001 So, as part of my on-going project I’ve recently made the decision to shift all my images (uploaded by ME and my USERS) to Azure Blob Storage, instead of the quite frankly ridiculous ‘unique folder system’ ... ImageResizer, AzureReader2 and well… Azure (duh!) 0 0 6
MVP Summit 2013 D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 I got back on Thursday last week from the Microsoft MVP Summit in the Seattle area. MVPs are tech community leaders who are awarded annually by Microsoft based on their contributions and leadership. They ... MVP Summit 2013 0 0 2
New Windows Azure Mobile Services iOS Samples Available Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 I'm excited to share the news that we have released a number of new iOS samples for Windows Azure Mobile Services. These samples demonstrate common scenarios that developers will run into when using Mobile ... New Windows Azure Mobile Services iOS Samples Available 0 0 0
Reviewing Syncfusion: jQuery Succinctly Nick Harrison, January 1, 0001 The nice folks at Syncfusion reached out to me last week to tell me a little bit about their Succinctly series of books. As they describe the concept, their goal is take 500+ pages of content and distill ... Reviewing Syncfusion: jQuery Succinctly 0 0 0
Continuous Integration-Automated Deployments And Release Manageme... Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 A customer I am working with is interested in an ‘automated deployment and release management’ solution for their 160 applications scaling across 350 servers. There is a mix of Microsoft and Non Microsoft ... Continuous Integration-Automated Deployments And Release Manageme... 0 0 0
Platform Religion Leads To Bad Business Decisions Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 I have been accused of being a Microsoft fanboy which has probably become more true as the years go by. Of course this is due in great part to the fact that developing for Microsoft technologies allows ... Platform Religion Leads To Bad Business Decisions 0 0 2
February 2013 Chicago IT Architect Group Summary Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 2013 continues to roll on. This month our meeting landed on one of the coldest day of this winter. We were lucky enough to have our co-founder Carl Franklin presenting on Google Cloud Platform. We are ... February 2013 Chicago IT Architect Group Summary 0 0 0
Azure Office Hours are back! Mike Benkovich, January 1, 0001 We’re back! Scott Klein (http://www.scottlklein.com) and I are kicking off a new series of weekly Office Hours to help developers find answers to tough questions. Similar to what we did over the last couple ... Azure Office Hours are back! 0 0 1
A Generic, IDisposable, Unit-Testable, Error-Handling WCF Service... Steve Wilkes, January 1, 0001 I recently reused my generic, disposable WCF service client, and made some changes to make it simpler to use and easier to unit test. The original client was used like this: using (var serviceClientWrapper ... A Generic, IDisposable, Unit-Testable, Error-Handling WCF Service... 0 0 5
When innovation becomes same old…new cover… BizTalk Visionary, January 1, 0001 One of the great joys of my job is seeing how innovative our development team can be, how innovative Microsoft are being and how innovative the world of technology is being. Now I must ‘nail my colours ... When innovation becomes same old…new cover… 0 0 2
Entity Framework A.K.M. Zakaria, January 1, 0001 EF developer workflowsThere are different ways we can use our entity framework to access relational database using classes in our .NET application.Entity Framework supports four basic development workflows,all ... Entity Framework 0 0 0
Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation Iso Sha-1 Alex Moore, January 1, 0001 Since I couldn't easily find this information on Google, here's the checksum info for the Windows 8 Enterprise Edition x86 Evaluation iso from Microsoft (http://msdn.microsoft.com/... ... Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation Iso Sha-1 0 0 4
The Office 365 conundrum BizTalk Visionary, January 1, 0001 At long last we have the Office 365 we deserve or do we? The concept of Office as a service is exciting and means for the average user both business and consumer access at a sensible price to the full ... The Office 365 conundrum 0 0 1
Feed Reader For Windows Phone 8 Has Me Reading Blogs Again Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 While I post on a regular basis, Twitter has become my pointer to any blogs that I read. I haven’t logged into a RSS app or Google Reader in a long time. When Feed Reader was featured on a web site recently ... Feed Reader For Windows Phone 8 Has Me Reading Blogs Again 0 0 1
Html5 is like pajamas; and native app is like an Armani suit subodhnpushpak, January 1, 0001 I was doing some introspection on the work I have been doing last year and realized that I have some really strong opinion on stuff which wasn’t there a year back. These opinion are mainly influenced by ... Html5 is like pajamas; and native app is like an Armani suit 0 0 9
Resolving SharePoint Workflow Publish Error MJ Ferdous, January 1, 0001 Errors were found when compiling the workflow. The workflow files were saved but cannot be run. Advanced: Unexpected error on server associating the workflow This is a SharePoint 2010 SP1 Bug and Error ... Resolving SharePoint Workflow Publish Error 0 0 13
deploy Internet Radio Rodney Vinyard, January 1, 0001 Internet Radio AdvantagesInternet Radio is static free, high fidelityInternet Radio can be high bandwidth, rich stereo thru your current amplifier.Virtually every "traditional, over the air" radio station ... deploy Internet Radio 0 0 0
C++ Unit Testing with GoogleTest JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 Unit testing is critical for quality code – they help you: find problems early facilitate change by avoiding breakage of other functionality simplify integration via a bottom up approach document the code ... C++ Unit Testing with GoogleTest 0 0 1
Beware Singletons that Raise Events Jesse Taber, January 1, 0001 This blog post has moved:http://gruffcode.com/... ... Beware Singletons that Raise Events 0 0 2
Google map div id must be map_canvas Aligned, January 1, 0001 The examples from Google use <div id=”map_canvas”></div... for their element. I changed it to something more specific to my project, and the zoom controls started looking funny. I reverted and ... Google map div id must be map_canvas 0 0 0