In episode one of Decoded, I talked to Jacob Thornton, co-inventor of the incredibly popular UI framework Bootstrap. BuiltWith estimates that Bootstrap is being used on over 7 million websites, worldwide. That’s huge! Bootstrap’s popularity has a lot to do with its flexibility and ease of use. Need a grid?…
Last week at Microsoft’s annual //Build developer conference, I partnered with Rita Zhang to demonstrate Pivotal Cloud Foundry on Azure. Cloud Foundry is an open source platform as a service (PaaS) technology that makes it easier for large companies to move to the cloud by first supporting deployment to the…
With the introduction of Win 10 and Universal Windows apps I wanted to try out some of the new XAML features like compile-time binding with x:Bind. I started by looking for a very simple Universal Windows Platform (UWP) sample that showed how to build an MVVM app with create, read,…
We’re keeping the coding going with this next post in the series of technical articles following the Build 2015 conference. This post is dedicated to the new video functionality provided in Windows 10. Increasingly, we’re hearing from developers the importance of adding improved user experiences for their apps. Those experiences…
We’re keeping the coding going with this third post in the series of technical articles following the Build 2015 conference. This post shows you how it is so much easier now to develop apps that have fantastic, responsive audio. The next one will focus on video. Having great audio and…
As promised, here is the second in the series of technical articles following the Build 2015 conference. This post is dedicated to Vorlon.js. So what is Vorlon? It is a new, open source, extensible, browser-agnostic tool for remotely debugging your JavaScript all powered by node.JS and socket.io. Yep – imagine…
I just walked offstage after another amazing build keynote. There is so much new technology that can help you build great next-generation applications. But there’s just too much to drill into in one blog post. So we take a look at each major coding demo in a series of posts…
If you are a Web developer and are thinking about taking the jump to mobile apps, the Web App Template (WAT) is an awesome way to get started. Creating mobile apps doesn’t get much easier than this, and the approach is lined up with the approach a lot of…
Earlier this year we released the Service Gateway, a tool that simplifies the process of building an internet-ready web site or mobile service. If this is your first time reading about Service Gateway then check out my initial post from a few months ago. The nut of it is that…
