wxPython: Learning to Use Fonts
Mike Driscoll continues his series on wxPython in this tutorial where he explains how to change the fonts using wx.Font and the widget's... more »
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HTML5 and CSS3 on Windows Phone: Dark and Light Styles
In my last article covering HTML5 and CSS3 on Windows Phone, I got you started with a simple boilerplate. It just so happened that the... more »
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Massively Easy Win7 Box Setup From Scratch
Patrick Dubois, the Godfather of DevOps (and a DZone MVB), has created a few open source tools and one of them, VeeWee, is a tool for... more »
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EvenTiles from Start to Finish - Part 8
Maarten Struys continues his series on developing a Windows Phone app from start to finish. This post continues his previous discussion... more »
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Correcting Pinch Zoom in Silverlight for Windows Phone
Pinch zooming is one of those things that look incredibly simple until you actually try to implement them. At that point you realize it... more »
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The Problem with Unit Tests
This article considers the usefulness, or uselessness, of automated tests structured in source code. Ayende uses RavenDB as case study,... more »
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Ninite.com – The Best Windows Tool You Aren’t Using
So all of us have Windows boxes in our shops that need to be installed, have some apps dropped on them and managed, even if we don’t... more »
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Performance - Using .Net and COM
How I managed to reduce a costly COM method runtime from minutes to seconds in a .Net application, and what are the rules of thumb that... more »
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Is Virtualization Really Ushering In the Multiple-OS Future?
It's likely that many IT departments will lay down concrete rules about whether users are allowed to venture out from the Windows... more »
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WP7 Icons Quick and Undirty
An unexpectedly time consuming part of Windows Phone 7 development are icons. As a developer with some occasional design inspirations I... more »
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EvenTiles from Start to Finish - Part 7
Maarten Struys continues his series on developing a Windows Phone app from start to finish. In this post, he covers how to use Fast... more »
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Deploying PHP and ASP.NET Sites in a Single Azure Web Role
To solve this problem, Brian offers a step-by-step process with code included. He also suggests a useful Cloud Cover episode, as well as... more »
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Amazon Web Services(AWS) SDK for Windows Phone 7
Microsoft's AWS SDK has been provided in an open source beta, which should inspire quick WP7 application development for developers.... more »
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Sample Mobile App with Backbone.js and PhoneGap
PhoneGap — if you are not familiar with it — is an open source platform that allows you develop cross-platform Mobile applications using... more »
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6 Best open source Document Management Systems
Document Management System is like a archive store, where we could store documents and retrieve the same. Most of the products provide... more »
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Windows Phone wins (another) design award
The Interactive Design Association (IxDA) just announced the winners of its first annual Interaction Award—and we’re thrilled that... more »
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Five Reasons why Windows 8 will be dead on arrival
Explains why Windows 8 will fail to impress users
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What I Learned Building a Startup on Microsoft Cloud Services: Part 1
This is the first of a series of posts where I talk about what I learned building a startup using Microsoft Technologies of which I... more »
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Things I've written that have amused other people, Episode 9
A customer liaison reported that their customer wants to be able to access their machine without needing a password. They just want to be... more »
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wxPython: Showing 2 Filetypes in wx.FileDialog
Mike Driscoll shows you how to make the wx.FileDialog display more than one file type at a time using the 'wildcard' variable.
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How to Build the Perfect Windows Phone App...(sort of)
Today I have some tips on how to improve the process of your Windows Phone application development from design to market. From... more »
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Make Your Windows Phone App Sing with PlaySoundAction
Kunal Chowdhury gives an in-depth look at adding sound behaviors to your Windows Phone app using the PlaySoundAction behavior with... more »
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Programming Windows Phone 7.5 Part 3: Stack Exchange API
Christopher Geers caps off his series on Windows Phone 7.5 Programming by showing how to make your application do something useful! Using... more »
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How to replace a color in an HBITMAP
When I wrote this function my problem was to replace one color by another on transparent bitmaps. My images were resources bitmaps, which... more »
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Brief Comparison between Windows Azure and Amazon Web Service
This comparative chart looks at various elements of AWS and Azure, including Compute VM, Scaling, Identity Management, Messaging,... more »
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