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Building Windows 10 Universal Apps

March 30, 2015
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Microsoft has been releasing some select pieces of information about developing against Windows 10. It starts simply ...

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Moving Forward

March 19, 2015
1 min read

Tomorrow is my last day at Fiserv, I have been working there for almost 10 years! I started out with a relatively small ...

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Fundamental Design Considerations for Web API

March 18, 2015
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I have been heavily invested in WCF for a long time now but the tide has mostly turned on public facing APIs (and some ...

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Structured Data Markup–Improving your SEO and Google Search Presentation

March 17, 2015
4 min read

Back in 2011 Google began promoting the idea of Authorship tags in markup as a mechanism to create a richer context for ...

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Sprint Rules and Definitions

March 13, 2015
2 min read

Our team has been promoting agile software development workflow process’ over the last 18 months and one of the steps ...

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The Devil Wears iWatch

March 10, 2015
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I love checking out new technology, part of the allure is the consideration of how the lives of folks who are barely ...

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Future Vision Productivity

February 28, 2015
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Another interesting conceptual video from Microsoft has surfaced recently that boldly pushes past the established ...

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Windows phone development should not be anyone's priority

February 25, 2015
3 min read

The outrage from Windows phone users and developers today was sparked by the announcement that Google was purchasing ...

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Cortana has emotions

February 11, 2015
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Cortana is a digital assistant integrated in the Windows Phone 8 and scheduled to be fully integrated into the next ...

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