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Mitch Pronschinske11/10/11
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Introduction to the HTML5 Web Workers

Web Workers offer a JavaScript multithreading approach for parallel execution which should boost your app's performance! URL: http://css.dzone.com/articles/introduction-html5-web-workers?mz=46483-html5 ...

Mitch Pronschinske11/10/11
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Learn HTML5 in 5 Minutes!

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Mitch Pronschinske11/09/11
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Should Windows Phone 8 be Based on Windows NT?

Will Windows Phone 8 be based on Windows NT? The rumors are out there, and some dislike the idea, but blogger Hal Berenson thinks that Windows Phone 8 "can and should" be based on the Windows NT kernel. To clarify, this doesn't mean the same...

Mitch Pronschinske11/09/11
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No Silverlight 6? Whispers of Silverlight's Demise Persist

Similar to the news we're now hearing about the end of Flash Player support for mobile devices, there are sources around Microsoft that are saying Silverlight 5 will be the last version. There have been no roadmaps or plans for Silverlight 6 released at...

Mitch Pronschinske11/09/11
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MongoDB Madness: Is it a Hoax? Do We Care?

This week kicked off with yet another highly publicized post on 'why technology X is a piece of crap and you should never use it' A few weeks ago it was Ted Dziuba taking a shit on node.js. This week we have a post on pastebin called "Don't Use...

Mitch Pronschinske11/03/11
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Windows Phone Font Positioning With Readable Code

An MSDN blog gives us an idea of the complexity that comes with font positioning. The author tries to clean things up for the reader by having a lot of variables to keep the code readable:

Mitch Pronschinske11/03/11
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Video: Windows Phone 3D - Integrating XNA and Silverlight

Bill Reiss, Senior Consultant at AgileThought and Microsoft Silverlight MVP, discusses an exciting development milestone - integrating XNA and Silverlight...

Mitch Pronschinske11/03/11
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Distributed Application Architecture is the New Big Challenge - DevOps Orchestration Won't Solve it

DevOps doesn't alleviate the fundamental problems arising from inproperly built distributed applications says Rob Hirschfeld in his response to the 451 Group's recent Cloudscape Report. The onus, he says, is now on developers to find the solutions to...

Mitch Pronschinske11/01/11
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Advice for Windows Phone 7 in New Tutorial Series

Anders Poulsen has completed 3 new blog posts in a series about starting Windows Phone development. The tutorials benefit from not trying to repeat a lot of information that is already well organized elsewhere, but it adds value in the tips and advice that...

Mitch Pronschinske11/01/11
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Windows Phone Pitfall: Deployment.Current.Dispatcher

You Windows Phone Developers will be interested to find out about a major pitfall (it might be considered a bug eventually) when you are building a component or application that needs to dispatch messages back to the UI thread. Here were some of his...

Mitch Pronschinske11/01/11
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Jez Humble on the Lean Startup Model in the Enterprise

It was a standing-only room when Jez Humble gave his presentation at Agile 2011 on how you could implement the basic principles of Lean Startups in a large...

Mitch Pronschinske10/31/11
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Why it's Easier to Develop for Windows Phone than iOS

According to former Valve developer Mike Dussault, Microsoft's toolchain for developing Windows Phone applications is way better than Apple's XCode toolchain. In fact, he says he developed his hit iOS app, Morfo, for Windows Phone first and then converted...

Mitch Pronschinske10/28/11
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Nokia Shows Some Dev-Love: 25k Free Lumia 800's

Along with the announcement of their first Windows Phone handset, the Lumia 800, Nokia also continued the spirit of Microsoft's strong developer relationship by revealing their program to get 25,000 Lumia 800s into the hands of beta testing developers.No...

Mitch Pronschinske10/27/11
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Windows Phone 7.5 Programming in C#

The Windows Phone Programming in C# Faculty Resources by Rob Miles has recently been updated at Microsoft's faculty resource center. Here are the sections that are now updated for Windows Phone 7.5 (7.1 OS)... and a made up book cover:

Mitch Pronschinske10/27/11
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Silverlight Navigation Framework XAML Escape Sequence

The XAML escape sequence and the navigation framework for Silverlight 4 and Silverlight 5 is discussed in a quick and useful tutorial by Alex van Beek. He discusses a common scenario when using the navigation framework:When you use the navigation framework...