Tuesday, January 20, 2015
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Jeff Fritz describes features in the upcoming release of ASP.NET.
Friday, January 16, 2015
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Chris Risner describes the new features of Azure Mobile Services that allow you to store data locally and sync it to the cloud later.
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
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JJ Hammond and Gus Emery describe how to use Universal Apps to create applications that will run on Windows 8 and Windows Phone.
Thursday, November 27, 2014
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Jared Faris explains how to use the developer tools in the major browsers to debug your JavaScript, HTML, and CSS and be a more productive web developer.
Charlie Chapman and Azhar Salahuddin explain how to use Azure Notification Hubs to send Push Notifications to mobile clients.
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
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Microsoft Technical Evangelist Tim Benroeck describes some of the advanced features of Azure Web Sites.
Friday, October 31, 2014
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Texas A&M hosted its first Major League Hackathon this fall, attracting hundreds of students from many different universities. Here are some of the teams with the projects they built.
Scott Allen knows what it's like to build a large Single Page Application on top of the AngularJS framework. He shares his knowledge about how to manage a project as it becomes large and complex.
Rob Fletcher of Quixote Consulting has built a business around organizing team-building exercise. Rob talks about the team-building exercises he brought to Microsoft that also benefited local charities.
Software developers from many different schools came together to build cool projects over a weekend at MHacks in ann arbor, MI. Here are some of the teams with the projects they built.
Saturday, October 04, 2014
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The Telerik Platform offers end-to-end control to build and deploy your applications. Sam Basu and Michael Crump describe the pieces of this platform and how they work together.
Sam Basu and Michael Crump describe features that were recently added to Telerik App Builder.
Monday, September 08, 2014
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SASS (Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets) compiles to CSS and allows developers to use programming concepts to style a web page. Mina Markham describes how to get started using this language.
Michael Perry shares some terrifying stories about how security lapses can cost you and your customers.
Robert Jacobi helped write the Azure implementation of Joomla, which allows users to quickly deploy a Joomla web site on the Azure platform. Robert discusses how this works and how it was built.
Thursday, September 04, 2014
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Joomla is an open source Content Management System (CRM) that allows you to quickly build and update web sites. Mike Carson, Michael Babker, and David Hurley discuss the advantages of Joomla and how to get started building a web site with it.
Microsoft Technical Evangelist Bill Fink describes some cool things you can do using the Kinect with and without an Xbox.
Microsoft Technical Evangelist Adam Grocholski describes how to automate common tasks in Azure using the Command-Line Tools
Sunday, July 20, 2014
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JavaScript contains a number of paradigms and keywords that can confuse unwary developers and lead to subtle bugs. Rachel Appel tells us what to watch for and how to avoid common JavaScript pitfalls.
Implementing security is difficult, says Rob Gillen, who has some advice for developers trying to secure their applications.
Gaines Kergosien thinks that developers don't spend enough time marketing themselves and thinking critically about their own worth to their employers and clients. He explains how we can do a better job at this.
Eric Potter shows off the weapon he has created with an Arduino controller and ScriptCS.
Sam McClanahan manages a MakerSpace (also known as a HackerSpace) in Knoxville, TN. He describes the kinds of projects people work on at these places.
Saturday, July 19, 2014
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Kevin Griffin meets regular with other entrepreneurs to have open conversations known as "Mastermind sessions". In this interview, Kevin describes Mastermind sessions and how they have benefited him.
Not long ago, Kevin Hazzard ran for his local school board and won. Now, he helps drive education policy at the state and local level. As a software developer, Kevin has strong opinions about how technology should be taught in schools.