As a consumer you would use the Windows 8 Store to get an application onto Windows 8 Consumer Preview. The store is a great way to discover, try, buy (optional) and update applications. But… if you are an Enterprise looking to get Metro applications onto your employees Windows 8 desktops then you will likely want… [Read more…]
March 20, 2012
New to JavaScript programming? Think you know what JavaScript is… but haven’t really used it for many years? Considering building Metro apps for Windows 8 using JavaScript? Then … you could do worse than setting aside a few hours to watch, well, pretty much anything by Douglas Crockford. I’ve started with the following from 2007… [Read more…]
March 12, 2012
This one seems to keep popping up… The following is true as of 12th March 2012 Short Answer: No. You will need Visual Studio 2010 or 2008. Long Answer: You will need to setup a development environment for Windows Azure using Visual Studio 2010 before installing Visual Studio 11. You can find details here.
March 8, 2012
I am just completing the final day of some rather good Windows 8 Metro App developer training. 90% of the time we have been using JavaScript.JavaScript has many “omg” moments when compared to trusty C#. Which is why it has been very handy to have Mike T sitting next to me. If you find yourself… [Read more…]
March 1, 2012
My group is laying on a a three city (London, Manchester and Edinburgh) tour which focuses on the Windows 8 opportunities for developers. These are one day events providing accelerated learning on Windows 8 application development. More details on the UK Tech.Days home page. London, Friday, 30th March 2012 – Register Manchester, Friday, 27th April… [Read more…]
February 24, 2012
Which is a great use of an extra day in February I have Thursday 1st set aside to get this all sweetly installed – perfect timing as Six Weeks of Windows Azure will have ended and I can safely think about rebuilding my pc. Some more details: The Road to Visual Studio 11 Beta and… [Read more…]
February 8, 2012
One of the companies on www.sixweeksofazure.co.uk asked us about the specifics of deploying into a single web role two solutions – one built in PHP and one built in ASP.NET. I reached out to Brian Swan for help. Brian is one of the Microsoft team focused on making PHP developers very happy on the Microsoft… [Read more…]
January 19, 2012
Turned out to be simplicity itself (thanks to this sweet tutorial). Great work team on the Windows Azure SDK for node.js and some lovely Powershell integration. Which in the management portal shows up as: Currently running (Thursday 19th Jan 2012) at http://ericnelnode1.cloudapp.net/ with the exciting output of: Related Links: Source code for SDK available on… [Read more…]
January 18, 2012
This is a very handy utility when working with web apis – I assumed I was last to discover it, turns out I’m not Hurl makes HTTP requests. Enter a URL, set some headers, view the response, then share it with others. Perfect for demoing and debugging APIs And… as is the trend these days…… [Read more…]
January 12, 2012
One of the partners helping us deliver Six Weeks of Windows Azure is Solidsoft. This graphic made me smile – nice use of Metro UX. Well done folks. And if you would like to know more about Metro, check out: Windows Dev Center – Metro Style App Development Channel 9 Windows 8 UX Video 8… [Read more…]
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