iOS Vs Android - How To Draw - Part 3 - Drawing
My blog posts until this point have mainly revolved around programming for iOS in Objective-C. There have been some posts around C#, however they're more about switching from C# to Objective-C ....
View ArticleiOS vs Android - How To Draw - Part 4 - Text
My blog posts until this point have mainly revolved around programming for iOS in Objective-C. There have been some posts around C#, however they're more about switching from C# to Objective-C ....
View ArticleDeveloper News - What's IN with the Infragistics Community? (12/28-1/10)
Here we are with the very first 2016 Developer News! I hope you've all had a great holiday and you're ready to take this year by storm!! Here's what you've all been perusing so far the past couple of...
View ArticleThe Top 5 Developer Podcasts
We love podcasts. They have quickly become the preferred soundtrack to the life of the modern professional. Tedious daily commutes and repetitive workout sessions are being accompanied by the sounds of...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleWearables 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,...
View ArticleOutlook.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...
View ArticleTop 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleCreating 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...
View ArticleISTA 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...
View ArticleBuilding 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...
View ArticleUsing 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?...
View ArticleTop 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...
View ArticleTop 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleTop 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,...
View ArticleHow 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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