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How to build a Mobile API or HTML 5 app in 5 minutes 14 Aug 2013 | 10:44 am
Last night I had the absolute joy of spending a little more than an hour taking about Visual Studio 2013 & (more importantly) Visual Studio LightSwitch at the Developer User Group. It was great to hav...
Use Strict... in Visual Studio 7 Aug 2013 | 09:55 pm
Visual Studio is The Best IDE For JavaScript. I’ve said that many times before & it remains true that as JavaScript developer on ANY platform Visual Studio will make you life easier than any other IDE...
GitHub: why it is right for open source and wrong for you 7 Aug 2013 | 12:46 am
For most of the software development projects in the world, GitHub is the wrong choice for their hosting needs. This is because for most of the world is NOT developing open source software and thus th...
Git: A happy repository is a lightweight repository 6 Aug 2013 | 12:48 am
I have had the joy of working with some great teams and learning how they use Git, but I have also seen it misused and the number one issue I helped teams resolve when using Git is what I call, the Fa...
An Aphelion 30 Jul 2013 | 12:42 pm
Aphelion is the point in the orbit of a planet or comet where it is farthest from the Sun. -- Wikipedia Tomorrow, July 31st will mark an aphelion in my career – I am leaving BBD today after 5 fantas...
The ungrateful behaviour award 25 Jul 2013 | 12:36 pm
This week’s award for more ungrateful behaviour goes to Greg Young, who seems to think that being a speaker at an event makes him special. The story is that Greg went to TechEd North America as a spea...
Windows Store App Logo Pack 24 Jul 2013 | 04:18 pm
When I develop a Windows Store app, one of the core things you need to do worry about is all the logo’s, splash screens, file icons & lock screen badges. It can be a pain to create these every time – ...
Amazing Lock Screen + Windows 8.1 11 Jul 2013 | 12:31 pm
When the Windows 8.1 Preview came out a few weeks ago I was in no place to test it, because I needed my machine stable for a bunch of conferences I was speaking at. However that didn’t stop a lot of a...
Netflorist & the plain text problem 10 Jul 2013 | 07:09 pm
Two years ago I used Netflorist to buy some flowers, but first I needed to login. I had forgotten my password, so I used the "Forgot Password" option. In the email I got was my actual password - whic...
Presentation Dump: End of 2012 & First half of 2013 - POPI, JavaScript, Open Source & .NET 4.5 Async 2 Jul 2013 | 11:59 am
It has been an entire year since my last presentation dump, so following that tradition – here are some of the talks I gave in the last year that were not immediately available: Protection of Persona...
