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Why Not Android?

February 18, 2014
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I recommend a variety of smart phones for budget conscious friends of mine (Lumia 52X and Android variants being among ...

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Visual Studio Online

February 17, 2014
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Team foundation Services has undergone somewhat of a rebranding and will henceforth be known as Visual Studio Online. ...

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Controlling The Android Fork

February 10, 2014
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Back in early 2012 Charlie Kindel (then integral to the Windows Phone 7 application platform) made a compelling ...

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Google Cast for Android, iOS, and Chrome Apps.

February 03, 2014
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Chromecast adoption is growing and as is appropriate Google is providing comprehensive Developer guides for select ...

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And Now SkyDrive Is OneDrive

January 27, 2014
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Kind of makes sense actually… ...

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Data Breaches Target You

January 22, 2014
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Having been the victim of credit card theft in the past the recent breaches at Target remind me of the level of trust ...

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dasBlog (Blogging) Future

January 20, 2014
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I have been using dasBlog for years now, at the time I was looking for the most flexibility possible and in hindsight I ...

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UTF-8 Character Encoding in .NET

January 08, 2014
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Every year or so I manage to uncover a gap in my knowledge as it relates to strings, character sets, and encoding. I ...

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Data Capture Accusations

January 02, 2014
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Reports on the data capture techniques employed by the NSA are coming in thick and fast and I am trying to decipher ...

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