This past month has just flown by that doesn’t seem to have slowed down our instructors one bit. Check out what they have been working on for you over the past 30 days.
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Rachel Appel is at it again – this time she’s covering cross-platform modern app architecture. Check out her most recent article entitled Design a Cross-Platform Modern App Architecture in MSDN Magazine.
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Inspired by the announcements coming out of Build, John Garland goes Under the Hood with Windows Universal Projects. In his blog post, he focuses on the mechanisms working behind-the-scenes that enables Universal Apps to work.
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Jeremy Likness has two more posts this month – Video: A JavaScript Feed Reader in Under 10 Minutes Using AngularJS and Silverlight: Where Do We Go from Here. Join him as he explores what is possible with AngularJS and as he discussed the evolution of Silverlight and the rise of HTML5 and JavaScript.
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This month, Charles Petzold takes a short break from writing about programming to explore sound. In his most recent post, Cut the Mic, he ruminates on the role of mics in instrumental and vocal music.
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Jeff Prosise has also been bitten by the Universal Apps bug. As a follow on to his previous two posts, Jeff’s latest is entitled Sharing Views in Universal Apps. In it he shows you how XAML files representing views can be placed in a shared project so they can be used on Windows and Windows Phone.
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Walt Ritscher has been spending some time working with Windows Phone 8.1 He has created a blog series aimed at exposing the hidden gems in the new OS that the mainstream media isn’t covering. He’s up to five so far. Check them out:
Windows Phone 8.1 – What’s New #01 – Call History Grouping
Windows Phone 8.1 – What’s New #02 – Call History UI
Windows Phone 8.1 – What’s New #03 – Speed Dial
Windows Phone 8.1 – What’s New #04 – Store App Auto Update History
Windows Phone 8.1 – What’s New #05 – Change Casing of Selected Word -
Noel Stieglitz takes some time to describe SOLID principles and discuss how they can be implemented in the enterprise in his latest post – SOLID Software in the Enterprise.
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Blaize Stewart serves up two interesting and vastly different topics this month. In the first – Is the Patent System Broken? – he explores the patent dispute between Apple and Samsung and shares his thoughts on the state of the system. The second is the second of a multi-part series on how to build a Linux-based home server. It is aptly titled “Setting up a Linux-Based Home Server – Part 2.”
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Last month Tim Huckaby made his way to Washington DC with other members of the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) to educate elected officials about the growing mobile economy and tech innovation. Read about his experiences in his latest post entitled The Association for Competitive Technology.
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Recently Tony Sneed created his own Trackable Entities framework. In his most recent post, he explores how you can Become an N-Tier Ninja with Trackable Entities 2.0. If you are using Trackable Entities in replace of the now defunct Entity Framework Self-Tracking Entities, you won’t want to miss this article.