Education vs. Certification Chris Gardner, January 1, 0001 I was recently speaking to a gentleman at a conference about various forms of educations. Specifically, we were speaking about the value of education versus certification. I told the gentleman I would ... Education vs. Certification 0 0 4
DataObjects.Net releases a community version and some goodies Malisa L. Ncube, January 1, 0001 I have been following the events at X-tensive.com and excited by the release of DataObjects.Net community license and new features in version 4.5.4. I have always had a sweet spot on DataObjects.Net, mainly ... DataObjects.Net releases a community version and some goodies 0 0 0
The potential problem with Windows 8 apps. Dennis Vroegop, January 1, 0001 The last decade can be characterized as the decade of the web. Like it or loathe it, the web is an important part in the lives of everyone working in IT. To me, this is a good thing. The web has brought ... The potential problem with Windows 8 apps. 0 0 5
My Startup Weekend Winnipeg Experience! D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 I finally have some time to blog about my experience two weekends ago at the Winnipeg Startup Weekend event. The idea of Startup Weekend is simple: bring together bright people who are interested/passionate ... My Startup Weekend Winnipeg Experience! 0 0 0
Questions You Should Ask Before Moving Your App to the Cloud Jeremy Morgan, January 1, 0001 Cloud Computing is currently the hot topic in the developer world these days, and it seems all anyone wants to talk about is the cloud. If you're like me you signed up for something like Windows Azure ... Questions You Should Ask Before Moving Your App to the Cloud 0 0 5
The Visual Studio ALM Ranger projects you should be following Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 If you haven’t already, I would strongly recommend getting started with the great guidance documents produced by the Visual Studio ALM rangers. Project Name Description Release / Updated Applicable to ... The Visual Studio ALM Ranger projects you should be following 0 0 0
SharePoint 2013 – Mobile Support. KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 With the increase in mobile browsing and greater demand for a mobile workforce, I’m pleased to see that SharePoint 2013 offers vast improvements to the mobile browser experience. SharePoint 2013 introduces ... SharePoint 2013 – Mobile Support. 0 0 0
SharePoint 2013 – Search, what’s new? KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 Search functionality in SharePoint 2013 Preview includes several enhancements, custom content processing with the Content Enrichment web service, and a new framework for presenting search result types. ... SharePoint 2013 – Search, what’s new? 0 0 1
Stub and Shim in Visual Studio 2012 Unit Test Shaun, January 1, 0001 Unit test is very important in modern software development, especially after adopted agile. Microsoft had added the unit test support since the Visual Studio 2008. Then with some enhancement and improvement ... Stub and Shim in Visual Studio 2012 Unit Test 0 0 8
10 coolest new features of SharePoint 2013 KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 1. Everything is an app! Lists, libraries, sites and even calendars are now ‘Apps’. In an interesting move that will at one stroke empower end users, reduce load on overworked IT operations departments ... 10 coolest new features of SharePoint 2013 0 0 0
SharePoint 15 First Look venkatx5, January 1, 0001 SharePoint 2013 First Look SharePoint 15 (a.k.a) SharePoint 2013 is really cool to work. Microsoft tweaked the UI design a lot for faster access and clear view on Tablets. The User Interface is Global ... SharePoint 15 First Look 0 0 0
VSNomad – Interesting Cross Mobile Platform Development fro... MarkPearl, January 1, 0001 I have recently been looking at VSNomad - a Visual Studio extension RedGate is working on to target IOS and Android development using Visual Studio as your IDE. Fellow GeeksWithBlogs blogger Kyle Burns ... VSNomad – Interesting Cross Mobile Platform Development fro... 0 0 2
A "snark-free" post on the Metro naming debacle* (Caution: May co... mbrit, January 1, 0001 In a parallel universe I'm writing a much less kind version of this post, but with GA of Windows 8 being measured in a short number of months, I'm going to try and be helpful. Am I happy about the naming ... A "snark-free" post on the Metro naming debacle* (Caution: May co... 0 0 0
My journey to the dark side dgreen, January 1, 0001 After some deep soul searching, I’ve decided to venture into the world of Objective-C and the wonderful world of iOS development. Mind you, its not some whimsical fancy. As a .NET developer by trade it ... My journey to the dark side 0 0 2
How long before I have to pay? ryanabr, January 1, 0001 I have some concerns where I see Microsoft going in terms of making developers pay to use tools that they already own. For example, to test out Windows Phone development I had to pay the $99 fee to allow ... How long before I have to pay? 0 0 2
Development Tools I use Aligned, January 1, 0001 I'm moving to a different location and computer for work, so for my own sake (and maybe yours) I'm documenting it here. http://www.elapser.net/Defa... Time tracking written in Silverlight by my friend ... Development Tools I use 0 0 0
SharePoint 2013 - 5 things to look out for! KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 1. Search Engine Optimization & Analytics is in Search – Search is TONS better. Much of this is due to Analytics moving into search. This will make Analytics Processing Component in SharePoint Server ... SharePoint 2013 - 5 things to look out for! 0 0 0
Getting Neo4j to install as a service on Windows 8 Release Previe... Chris Skardon, January 1, 0001 So, I’ve been working out how to get Neo4j installed on my Windows 8 machine. The j in neo4j does indeed stand for Java, and so I installed the JDK and JRE for my system (x64), and then I extracted neo4j ... Getting Neo4j to install as a service on Windows 8 Release Previe... 0 0 2
Paste without formatting using a single hotkey Malcolm Anderson, January 1, 0001 Have you ever tried to copy text from one place and when you try to paste it, it ended up with all the formatting from where you copied from?Word, Excel, and even GMail suffer from this.Normally what you ... Paste without formatting using a single hotkey 0 0 1
An Introduction to WebGL JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 What is WebGL? low-level JavaScript API to access the GPU from within scripts on web pages Usage: performant real-time 3D graphics in the browser. It's a web standard doesn't need a plugin managed by Khronos ... An Introduction to WebGL 0 0 1
Disappearing Boundaries in the Post-PC/BYOD World Webgui, January 1, 0001 A lot has been written recently about how we live in the Post-PC world. But what does mean practically? Up until relatively recently, even as smartphones became more technology capable and increasingly ... Disappearing Boundaries in the Post-PC/BYOD World 0 0 0
Reading QR Codes In Your Windows Phone App Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 I have recently been working on an application for a client that needs to read QR codes. This has lead to some interesting findings. There are a couple of approaches you can use. One is to take a picture ... Reading QR Codes In Your Windows Phone App 0 0 5
JQuery Add New Item to SPList Wayne H Magnum, January 1, 0001 <div> <p> Task Title: <input id="Text1" type="text" /> <input id="Button1" type="button" value="Create Task" /> </p> </div><script src="http://ajax.googleapis... ... JQuery Add New Item to SPList 0 0 3
OneNote: Change location of Unfiled Notes Marko Apfel, January 1, 0001 There are some links in google to do this. But no hint works for me. So I tried some own ideas. And indeed – I found a simple solution without registry editing and so on. Get the actual location of “Unfiled ... OneNote: Change location of Unfiled Notes 0 0 6
Traveling abroad - an IT experience for work (part 1h andywe, January 1, 0001 After almost 30 years of being a sr. engineer and architect, I finally got myself into a project where another person was not being allowed to travel far from home and family to be boots on the ground. ... Traveling abroad - an IT experience for work (part 1h 0 0 0
Managing Hotfixes Centrally pattontech, January 1, 0001 Historically I've not paid much attention to hotfixes or patches, but lately I've decided that I need to change that aspect of my management. I used to create a folder on the server that had the problem, ... Managing Hotfixes Centrally 0 0 0
Geekswithblogs.net | Screen Resolutions of our Readers Jeff Julian, January 1, 0001 Yesterday I talked about the Browsers we see being used by our readers driven off of our Google Analytics traffic and today I want to share with you the Screen Resolutions we see. As a web developer most ... Geekswithblogs.net | Screen Resolutions of our Readers 0 0 0
Modify “Link”/ "HyperLink"/URL field using Powershell KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 If you are trying to update a hyperlink/url type of column of a SharePoint list item using PowerShell and are getting the exception:Unable to index into an object of type Microsoft.SharePoint.SPList... ... Modify “Link”/ "HyperLink"/URL field using Powershell 0 0 0
Browser Statistics for Geekswithblogs.net Jeff Julian, January 1, 0001 I love Google Analytics! It helps me so much during my day-to-day maintenance of Geekswithblogs.net and our other sites. I can see so much data about our visitors and come up with new ways of delivering ... Browser Statistics for Geekswithblogs.net 0 0 0
Connect to QuickBooks Data from PowerBuilder using CData ADO.NET ... dataintegration, January 1, 0001 The CData ADO.NET providers are easy-to-use, standards-based controls that can be used from any platform or development technology that supports Microsoft .NET, including Sybase PowerBuilder. This article ... Connect to QuickBooks Data from PowerBuilder using CData ADO.NET ... 0 0 2
Book Review–Getting Started With OAuth 2.0 Lori Lalonde, January 1, 0001 Getting Started With OAuth 2.0, by Ryan Boyd, provides an introduction to the latest version of the OAuth protocol. The author starts off by exploring the origins of OAuth, along with its importance, and ... Book Review–Getting Started With OAuth 2.0 0 0 0
DataContractSerializer truncated string when used with MemoryStre... Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 We've used the following DataContractSerializeToXml method for a long time, but recently noticed, that it doesn't return full XML for a long object, but truncated it and returns XML string with the length ... DataContractSerializer truncated string when used with MemoryStre... 0 0 1
Chrome OS is missing or damaged Ken, January 1, 0001 My Google Chrome CR-48 started flaking out/rebooting and finally this message. This post solved the problem quite easily. http://cr-48.wikispaces.com... Two hints: 1) you need to pull off ... Chrome OS is missing or damaged 0 0 0
Independence Day for Software Components – Loosening Coupli... Brian Schroer, January 1, 0001 Today is Independence Day in the USA, which got me thinking about loosely-coupled “independent” software components. I was reminded of a video I bookmarked quite a while ago of Jim Weirich’s “Grand Unified ... Independence Day for Software Components – Loosening Coupli... 0 0 1
Using IIS Logs for Performance Testing with Visual Studio Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 In this blog post I’ll show you how you can play back the IIS Logs in Visual Studio to automatically generate the web performance tests. You can also download the sample solution I am demo-ing in the blog ... Using IIS Logs for Performance Testing with Visual Studio 0 0 3
Strange error “argument type ‘lambda expression&rsquo... Marko Apfel, January 1, 0001 During playing with EF and LINQ I run in this UI-error: argument type ‘lambda expression’ is not assignable to parameter type ‘string’ The Compiler themselves states: Cannot convert lambda expression to ... Strange error “argument type ‘lambda expression&rsquo... 0 0 2
St. Louis ALT.NET Brian Schroer, January 1, 0001 I’m a huge fan of the St. Louis .NET User Group and a regular attendee of their meetings, but always wished there was a local group that discussed more advanced .NET topics. (That’s not a criticism of ... St. Louis ALT.NET 0 0 0
Better Embedded 2012 Valter Minute, January 1, 0001 Il 24 e 25 Settembre 2012 a Firenze si svolgerà la conferenza “Better Embedded 2012”. Lo scopo della conferenza è quello di parlare di sistemi embedded a 360°, abbracciando sia lo sviluppo firmware, che ... Better Embedded 2012 0 0 0
Windows Metro Requests Scott Dorman, January 1, 0001 Windows 8 and Windows Metro style apps have a lot of potential, but only if application vendors realize there is a demand to see their app as a Metro style app and not just as a desktop app (or worse, ... Windows Metro Requests 0 0 2
Liskov Substitution Principle and the Oft Forgot Third Wheel Stacy Vicknair, January 1, 0001 Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP) is a principle of object oriented programming that many might be familiar with from the SOLID principles mnemonic from Uncle Bob Martin. The principle highlights the ... Liskov Substitution Principle and the Oft Forgot Third Wheel 0 0 1
Exception Handling And Other Contentious Political Topics Justin Jones, January 1, 0001 So about three years ago, around the time of my last blog post, I promised a friend I would write this post. Keeping promises is a good thing, and this is my first step towards easing back into regular ... Exception Handling And Other Contentious Political Topics 0 0 2
Surface and the Uphill Battle to Win Over iPad Users (Namely: Me) D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 I went away this past weekend and decided to bring along the Windows 8 tablet from the Build conference last year – y’know, to give Windows 8 a try in a typical scenario. I also brought our iPad 2 along ... Surface and the Uphill Battle to Win Over iPad Users (Namely: Me) 0 0 1
Navigation in Win8 Metro Style applications Dennis Vroegop, January 1, 0001 In Windows 8, Touch is, as they say, a first class citizen. Now, to be honest: they also said that in Windows 7. However in Win8 this is actually true. Applications are meant to be used by touch. Yes, ... Navigation in Win8 Metro Style applications 0 0 0
Why bother writing an Windows 8 app? Dennis Vroegop, January 1, 0001 So you want to know more about development for Window 8. Great! There are lots of reasons you should be excited about this. Since I don’t know why YOU are interested in this, I’ll make a list of reasons ... Why bother writing an Windows 8 app? 0 0 21
MS Marketing Strategy Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 I found this week’s Windows Phone 8 event interesting. Not just because it looks like some fantastic new features in the new OS but because of the wait for release. If I were a Nokia shareholder (which ... MS Marketing Strategy 0 0 0
My Feelings About Microsoft Surface Valter Minute, January 1, 0001 Advice: read the title carefully, I’m talking about “feelings” and not about advanced technical points proved in a scientific and objective way I still haven’t had a chance to play with a MS Surface tablet ... My Feelings About Microsoft Surface 0 0 0
Withdraw cash from ATM using Android smartphone chankeypathak, January 1, 0001 Withdraw cash from ATM using Android smartphone ... Withdraw cash from ATM using Android smartphone 0 0 0
Web API Presentation at DC DNUG Steve Michelotti, January 1, 0001 This Tuesday (July 19), I’ll be presenting the ASP.NET Web API at the DC DotNet Users Group. Abstract: Modern web applications have seen an explosion in Web API creation. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Azure, ... Web API Presentation at DC DNUG 0 0 1
Updating Motorola Razr XT910 to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (I... chankeypathak, January 1, 0001 Motorola Razr XT910 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) ... Updating Motorola Razr XT910 to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (I... 0 0 0
My Xbox Live App for Android and iOS chankeypathak, January 1, 0001 My Xbox Live App for AndroidMy Xbox Live App for iOS ... My Xbox Live App for Android and iOS 0 0 0