My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

Windows phone development should not be anyone's priority

February 25, 2015
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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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Developer Links : February 9, 2015

February 09, 2015
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I blog about the things that I find most interesting especially as it relates to software development (.NET more ...

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Ensuring Net Neutrality

February 04, 2015
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I got to say I am really surprised with the response from Tom Wheeler today (emphasis mine): Broadband network ...

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First time Trainer

February 02, 2015
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I have well over 15 years of experience in the field of software engineering and during that time I have supported, ...

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Microsoft HoloLens- Transform your world with holograms

January 22, 2015
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For the first time ever, Microsoft HoloLens seamlessly blends high-definition holograms with your real world. Holograms ...

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Pointer Events on the Web

January 19, 2015
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My interest in human machine interface goes from the practical to the academic, with regards to the later, Pointer ...

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Team Foundation Server Windows shell extension

January 14, 2015
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For the last few years now my companies software repository has been firmly in the Subversion (SVN) space, it replaced ...

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Bad protocol, bad politics

January 08, 2015
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The Hypertext Transfer Protocol version 2 draft abstract reads as follows: This specification describes an optimized ...

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