Microsoft Imagine Cup Bulgarian Final: Event Recap
Yesterday - 26 March 2013 was held the final of Bulgarian Microsoft Imagine Cup 2013.For this competition were registered 25 teams. Only 17 teams reached the final round in 3 categories: Innovations...
View ArticleRemote Load-on-Demand with the Ignite UI igTree
The Ignite UI igTree is a powerful client-side jQuery UI widget which has a ton of great features baked right into the control. One of the most valuable features of any tree is its ability to support...
View ArticleWindows 8 development–Certification failed due to bytecode generation
I was working on a WinJS application and added a 3rd party JavaScript library. However every time I tried to run the WACK certification tool I kept coming across this issue.Performance test - FAILED...
View ArticleHow to Find a Top Paying Developer Job
So you want a top paying development job? Well, while there’s no way to guarantee success (otherwise everyone would have one!), especially in these tough financial times, there are a few things you can...
View ArticleCreating Scrum Tools for Project Tracking with Diverse Teams (Part 0)
In my excitement to present you all with my amazing sparkline discovery, I definitely jumped ahead in how everything in my tracker came together on my Scrum Board. Thus, this post backtracks a bit and...
View ArticleSharePlus: How to Save an Email Attachment to Local Files
When you’re mobile, do you ever find yourself digging through your email in order to access a document? This is one of the mobile challenges that the Local Files feature of SharePlus solves.This...
View ArticleSummary of March Melbourne AppFest
This month saw the first Melbourne AppFest, it all went without a hitch. The event covered development on Windows 8 / Windows Phone and Windows Azure.The facilities were perfect and the catering was...
View ArticleSXSW 2013 The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
It’s March, which means another SXSW! This being my first SXSW I really did not know what to expect and I felt that being a rookie gave me some solid unbiased opinions about this world famous...
View ArticleWhat is jQuery?
“What is jQuery?” may seem at first to be a somewhat silly question (and I refuse to call anything a stupid question) given how widespread its usage is in today’s web and mobile world. However, there...
View ArticleMocking Requests and Data for the Ignite UI igGrid
Sometimes when you are working on a new feature of an application the server and client are either in development at different stages or maybe you just want to work out the particulars of a view in...
View ArticleCreating a KnockoutJS Custom Binding for MVVM Charting
What is Knockout?Knockout is a JavaScript library that helps you apply the MVVM pattern when designing HTML/JavaScript UIs. It aids in making your view model and UI controls observable so that changes...
View ArticleWebinar: Optimizing WPF and XamDataGrid Performance
Overwhelmingly, WPF has been the platform of choice for desktop applications over the course of the last couple of years. It enables developers to quickly build flexible desktop applications which can...
View ArticleBuilding Windows Phone Application using PhoneGap
There is a lot of buzz about building Hybrid mobile applications. In this blog series we will talk about building Hybrid mobile applications using PhoneGap. For those who are new to hybrid...
View Article4 Great HTML5 Conferences to Attend in 2013
HTML5, though it feels like it has been around for a long time, is still in fact not a formal release of HTML. Its actual status is “W3C Candidate Recommendation,” which means it is currently being...
View ArticleRevisiting Prototyping With Indigo Studio
Webinar DescriptionThis webinar/demo introduces you to the core capabilities and rationale behind Indigo Studio, and how it relates to prototyping.But before demonstrating Indigo Studio's capabilities,...
View ArticleTop Five iOS Development Resources
The Apple app store is one of the most popular in the world, with over 40 billion apps downloaded since it went live in 2008. Nearly half of those downloads were last year, so clearly there is a...
View ArticleUsing the GitHub for Windows app with BitBucket
If you aren’t using any form of source control in your project then stop right now and fix this. To get up and running with Git takes a whole 10 minutes to set up, and you will have your source code up...
View ArticleCreating the Sensis Showdown app
Recently I was at a developer camp. In attendance was a developer evangelist from Sensis who was encouraging devs to create an app for their search API http://developers.sensis.com.au/about. There was...
View ArticleExploring JavaScript MV* Frameworks Part 1 – Hello Backbonejs
JavaScript has become one of the most popular programming languages on the web. At first, developers didn’t take it seriously, simply because it was not intended for server side programming. It was a...
View ArticleSharePlus Pro for a SharePoint Captain -- Mobile Business App Giveaway
If you use SharePoint for optimizing your business collaboration efforts, Infragistics’ SharePlus tool will enable you to easily access your documents while away from your desktop. In an effort to...
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