Windows Phone or Business Card: Can't it be both?
Developer Evangelist Jeff Blankenburg came up with a great idea when designing his new business cards: make them look like a Windows... more »
Tweet 0 Comments Save Tags: humor , mobile , tools , windows
The story of the mysterious WINA20.386 file
matushorvath was curious about the WINA20.386 file that came with some versions of MS-DOS.
Tweet 0 Comments Save Tags: how-to , windows
InfoQ: Microsoft Details Windows 8 for ARM
Microsoft has detailed Windows 8 for ARM: architected for low power consumption, apps that can only target WinRT, restricted desktop that... more »
Tweet 0 Comments Save Tags: microsoft , mobile , news , windows
So I Was Wrong: Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Will Share Core
Matt Lacey provides his insight on the recent announcement that Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 will share the Windows NT kernel.
Tweet 0 Comments Save Tags: mobile , news , standards , windows
Windows 8: The Facts About ARM, Metro, and the Blue Stack
With the announcement that Microsoft will release the Windows 8 Consumer Preview on February 29 in Barcelona, Jeremy Likness breaks down... more »
Tweet 0 Comments Save Tags: microsoft , news , reviews , windows
Resetting Idle Detection Countdown in Windows Phone
Francesco De Vittori provides a detailed tutorial on how to use accelerometer events to reset the screen-saver countdown for Windows... more »
Tweet 0 Comments Save Tags: how-to , microsoft , mobile , windows
EvenTiles from Start to Finish - Part 9
Maarten Struys continues his series on developing a Windows Phone app from start to finish. In this post, he talks about adding a... more »
Tweet 0 Comments Save Tags: how-to , microsoft , mobile , windows
IE Blog Tries to Make Case for Metro-Style Apps
The IE10 Developer Team is making some waves with a recent blog post comparing the performance of browsers running HTML5 content. While... more »
Tweet 0 Comments Save Tags: apple , css-html , research , windows
The path-searching algorithm is not a backtracking algorithm
Suppose that you call LoadLibrary("foo.dll") intending to load the library at C:\dir2\foo.dll. If the network server is down, the... more »
Tweet 0 Comments Save Tags: c-and-cpp , how-to , windows
Give Your Windows Phone App the Finger!
Jerry Nixon provides a great link to an article written by colleague Sam Stokes, and also offers his own take on the task of dragging... more »
Tweet 0 Comments Save Tags: how-to , mobile , opinion , windows
wxPython: Learning to Use Fonts
Mike Driscoll continues his series on wxPython in this tutorial where he explains how to change the fonts using wx.Font and the widget's... more »
Tweet 0 Comments Save Tags: how-to , python , tools , windows
HTML5 and CSS3 on Windows Phone: Dark and Light Styles
In my last article covering HTML5 and CSS3 on Windows Phone, I got you started with a simple boilerplate. It just so happened that the... more »
Tweet 0 Comments Save Tags: css-html , mobile , ria , windows
Massively Easy Win7 Box Setup From Scratch
Patrick Dubois, the Godfather of DevOps (and a DZone MVB), has created a few open source tools and one of them, VeeWee, is a tool for... more »
Tweet 0 Comments Save Tags: how-to , tools , windows
EvenTiles from Start to Finish - Part 8
Maarten Struys continues his series on developing a Windows Phone app from start to finish. This post continues his previous discussion... more »
Tweet 0 Comments Save Tags: how-to , mobile , windows
Correcting Pinch Zoom in Silverlight for Windows Phone
Pinch zooming is one of those things that look incredibly simple until you actually try to implement them. At that point you realize it... more »
Tweet 0 Comments Save Tags: how-to , mobile , tools , windows
The Problem with Unit Tests
This article considers the usefulness, or uselessness, of automated tests structured in source code. Ayende uses RavenDB as case study,... more »
Tweet 0 Comments Save Tags: database , opinion , windows
Ninite.com – The Best Windows Tool You Aren’t Using
So all of us have Windows boxes in our shops that need to be installed, have some apps dropped on them and managed, even if we don’t... more »
Tweet 0 Comments Save Tags: windows
Performance - Using .Net and COM
How I managed to reduce a costly COM method runtime from minutes to seconds in a .Net application, and what are the rules of thumb that... more »
Tweet 0 Comments Save Tags: .net , how-to , windows
Is Virtualization Really Ushering In the Multiple-OS Future?
It's likely that many IT departments will lay down concrete rules about whether users are allowed to venture out from the Windows... more »
Tweet 0 Comments Save Tags: opinion , unix-linux , web 2.0 , windows
WP7 Icons Quick and Undirty
An unexpectedly time consuming part of Windows Phone 7 development are icons. As a developer with some occasional design inspirations I... more »
Tweet 0 Comments Save Tags: how-to , microsoft , mobile , windows
EvenTiles from Start to Finish - Part 7
Maarten Struys continues his series on developing a Windows Phone app from start to finish. In this post, he covers how to use Fast... more »
Tweet 0 Comments Save Tags: how-to , microsoft , mobile , windows
Deploying PHP and ASP.NET Sites in a Single Azure Web Role
To solve this problem, Brian offers a step-by-step process with code included. He also suggests a useful Cloud Cover episode, as well as... more »
Tweet 0 Comments Save Tags: how-to , open source , web services , windows
Amazon Web Services(AWS) SDK for Windows Phone 7
Microsoft's AWS SDK has been provided in an open source beta, which should inspire quick WP7 application development for developers.... more »
Tweet 0 Comments Save Tags: mobile , news , windows
Sample Mobile App with Backbone.js and PhoneGap
PhoneGap — if you are not familiar with it — is an open source platform that allows you develop cross-platform Mobile applications using... more »
Tweet 0 Comments Save Tags: microsoft , mobile , tools , windows
6 Best open source Document Management Systems
Document Management System is like a archive store, where we could store documents and retrieve the same. Most of the products provide... more »
Tweet 0 Comments Save Tags: open source , unix-linux , windows
