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How to use Azure Cloud services for your apps
With Azure, it is very easy to host your web apps in the cloud. In the old days before the cloud, you would have had to set up a service, configure networking, and add the required libraries as well as...
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Wearables at Work - Apple Watch, Android Wear and BYOD Policies
The idea of wearable tech at work is hardly new - from call center headsets to wrist computers, companies have been innovating with the idea for decades. With benefits including improved productivity,...
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Outlook.com add-ins: What you need to know
The email service we now know as Outlook.com is among the world’s oldest webmail services. Founded in the mid-1990’s under the original name Hotmail before being acquired by Microsoft, the service was...
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Top Tips: How to Become a SharePoint MVP
If you took a moment out of your day and logged into Twitter and searched for #MVP, you’d encounter an active content thread with nods to plenty of successful achievers. One common theme in this stream...
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The Best Pets for Developers
According to the ASPCA there’s close to 150,000,000 cats and dogs in the USA. Add that to all the other kinds of feathered and furry friends and the number might be closer to a petabyte (it doesn’t...
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Creating Unit Tests for ASP.NET MVC Controllers
In this blog post, we will learn to write unit tests for various MVC controller’s behaviors, such as view’s return types, redirecting to different actions etc. Specifically, we’ll cover writing Unit...
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ISTA 2015 Recap | Time for Software to Grow Up
On 19 November, 2015 I spoke at the Innovations in Software Technologies and Automation (ISTA) conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. My presentation, “Design, Usability and Complex Systems”, centered on the...
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Building a Bridge Between Designers and Developers
Back in the day, when the enterprise was a place of grey dull tools that users were pretty much forced to use against their will, application development practices were pretty simple.A consultant or...
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Using Ignite UI widgets in Angular 2 application
This blog post will demonstrate the steps needed to create Angular 2 components with TypeScript. This example is using the Ignite UI igGrid widget.Probably you are asking yourself, why Typescript?...
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Top 10 Free Developer Tools: Part 1
The heart of a coder resides in the code he writes. A philosophical we know, but stay with us. A core developer will on average spend 6 hours a day in ‘development mode’. Their time can be spent...
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Top 10 Free Developer Tools: Part 2
This post is the second part of a miniseries about the top 10 free developer tools. Here, we'll continue our look at some of the best developer’s tool currently out there and in demand. In part 1 we...
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How WPF controls help different industries
For a non-technical audience, Microsoft’s Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) might feel a little abstract. Available in some form or another since 2006, WPF has been used in a number of popular...
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The Top 8 Habits of Successful Developers
The desire for success is, arguably, part of our genetic make-up. Being successful means being happy, and pretty much everyone strives for happiness. When we become happy, chemicals in our brains...
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How to Choose a BI and Analytics Tool for Your Company
For a long time, Business Intelligence (BI) was the specialized domain belonging to your company’s statistics expert. However, in the last few years, we’ve seen an exponential growth in BI tools for...
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Top Developer Meetups: San Francisco, CA
Here we are with the second installment of Top Developer Meetups in the USA! This city is one I'm sure isn't a surprise for anyone, since it's a hub for tech aficionados of all flavors, San Francisco,...
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How does Xamarin Studio compare to native Android development?
When developing apps for Android, your first instinct may well be to open up Android Studio. Since this environment gives you all the tools, support and libraries you would want to build an Android...
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The Top 5 Scott Hanselman Videos on the Web
We don’t hear the word ‘famous’ all too often in the programming world, but by definition, famous is simply “being known by many people”. In that regard, there are some individuals who have a very big...
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The SOLID principles in real life
Hopefully you're familiar with the SOLID principles, particularly if you program in object oriented languages. The wisdom contained therein (mostly) isn't limited to object oriented languages, but...
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Just How Secure is Your Mobile Data?
How secure is your company’s enterprise mobile data? The simple answer: it all depends on you.In today’s enterprise, the expectation to provide employees with access to company data from mobile devices...
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Xamarin adds Java: What does this mean?
In 2012’s The Avengers, an unparalleled force of Marvel superheroes come together to save humanity from enslavement by an alien army. Replacing the tight-fitting spandex of old with shiny armor and a...
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