Blogs

April 23, 2013

BodyCom Development Kit

Use your body's electric field to authenticate

December 11, 2012

Porting the D Compiler to Win64

64-bit Windows was the last major x86 platform that the dmd compiler didn't support, so last summer my colleagues and I decided it was past due.

May 31, 2012

The Parrot Asteroid Development Experience

Is That An Android In Your Car?





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Working with TypeScript in Visual Studio 2012

Using Visual Studio makes working with TypeScript easy and helps reveal subtleties of the language implementation and code generation.

Supercharging ASP.NET Web Form Apps

With the introduction of the ASP.NET Web API in ASP.NET 4.5, it is now possible to add advanced client-side functionality to existing sites

Microsoft TypeScript: The Lay of the Land

By creating a language that adds types to JavaScript, Microsoft made it easier to write complex Web apps, do compile-time syntax checking, and get better coding support in Visual Studio.

Pulling Back from Windows 8

The lack of hardware sales, the deep dissatisfaction among consumers, and the lack of interest in Win8-specific development suggest that Microsoft needs an immediate restart.

MongoDB with C#: Deep Dive

Using MongoDB in an ASP.NET MVC Web app.

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Microsoft Team Foundation Server Gets Mobile Extension

Perfecto Mobile brings enterprise-grade ALM to mobile developers

NuoDB Releases 1.1 For Microsoft .NET And Azure

Advanced architecture for performing real-time operational analytics

Mozilla and Otoy Announce ORBX.js JavaScript Library

HTML5 library enables native Windows apps to run in any browser

Multi-Device True Native App Development

Embarcadero RAD Studio XE4 arrives

XebiaLabs Deployit Deploys .NET IT

Frees up more operations resources and adds self-service cloud pack

When UI And UX Come Together

Infragistics releases NetAdvantage Ultimate 2013 Volume 1

An End To .NET Guessing Games?

Red Gate ANTS Profiler V8 bids to pinpoint performance problem

World's First 'Language-Aware' Source Code Merge Tool

Codice's Semantic Merge is a programming three-way merge tool with semantic support

Microsoft Shows Cadence In Visual Studio 2012 Update 2

More regular update promise upheld with new Agile developer focused product update

Atlassian Brings SourceTree To Windows

Automates complex command-line operations and visualizes change sets across multiple branches and forks

Events of Interest

May 28-31. Boston, MA. AnDevCon Android Developer Conference

May 28-30. San Francisco, CA. O'Reilly Fluent Conference

June 4-5, Santa Clara, CA. JAXConf 2013 (free)

June 10-14. New York, NY. QCon

June 12. Chicago, IL. Chicago Algorithmic Trading Conference: for Developers, by Developers

June 13. San Francisco, CA. HBaseCon

June 13-14. Santa Clara, CA. Gradle Summit 2013

June 17-19. Boston, MA. E2 Conference

June 18-20. Santa Clara, CA. O'Reilly Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference

June 24-28. San Jose, CA. 2013 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

June 26-27. San Francisco, CA. Build 2013

July 22-26. Portland, OR. O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2013

July 29-31, 2013. Santa Clara, CA. JVM Language Summit

August 20-21. Raleigh, NC. Business and Technology Solutions Summit 2013: Cloud and Big Data Conference and Expo

September 16-19. Santa Clara, CA. Storage Developer Conference (SDC)

September 18-20. St. Louis, MO. Strange Loop 2013

October 1-3. San Francisco, CA. Atlassian Summit 2013

October 5-6. Los Altos Hills, CA. Silicon Valley Code Camp


Videos of Past Events

March 2013. GPU Technology Conference

September 2012. Strangeloop

September 2012. Intel Developer Forum

August 2012. VMWorld

July 2012. Java Language Summit

June 2012. Google I/O 2012

May 2012. Atlassian Summit

May 2012 (paid). Fluent Conference

March 2012. Multicore World

July 2011. JVM Language Summit

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