WWDC14 for non-developers (Part 2: The Apple Design Process) 28 June 2014 Francis In this post I will highlight the most interesting WWDC14 sessions videos for non-developers. There were a surprisingly high number of session about design & UX that were totally accessible even if you're not a developer. You should obviously start with the Keynote, watch it before continuing wi... [More]
Universal App with Lex.DB 26 June 2014 Diederik-Krols Universal Windows Apps, Windows Phone, WinRT This article shows how to create a Universal Windows App that stores its local data in Lex.DB. This is a lightweight, developer-friendly in-process database engine, completely written in C#. For an introduction to building Store Apps on top of Lex.DB, please check this article of mine. For a more ad... [More]
Building custom reports for SQL Server management 26 June 2014 Nico-Jacobs Business Intelligence, SQL Server, Reporting Services, Talks Recently I presented a session at the ITPROceed conference on ‘Administration intelligence’: using Business Intelligence solutions for analyzing log files, generate documentation, do disk quota estimations and other typical administration tasks. You can find the full presentation at SlideShare. In ... [More]
Identities in the Cloud @ ITPROceed 24 June 2014 Els-Putzeys A few days ago, I presented a session on Identities in the Cloud at ITPROceed. I talked about the options in Windows Azure Active Directory to create and manage users: Microsoft Online IDs, Directory Synchronization and Federation.For those of you that are interested in the presentation, you can dow... [More]
Post-WWDC 2014 Indoor Location Roundup 20 June 2014 Francis "So where exactly are you again in this crowd? Precise indoor geolocation will make finding people and places in crowded spaces like events or concerts a lot easier." (Photo Creative Commons by Marc Nijdam)If you're interested in Internet-Of-Things & the interplay between people, devices & l... [More]
WWDC14 for non-developers (Part 1: Overview) 19 June 2014 Francis https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2014/It's a pretty exciting time to be a developer for the Apple ecosystem. Apple announced many major changes at WWDC last week & most of us developers are still digesting it all. 4000 new APIs in IOS8 alone. A new programming language. A whole slew of co... [More]
Apple's Summer of Code is silent no more. 18 June 2014 Francis (Image Creative Commons by Brian Brantner)This is the first post in a series about development for the Apple Ecosystem (iPhone, iPad, Mac, iSomething?). This blog is geared towards non-developers who are still interested in creating apps . "Product manager, startup entrepreneur, just-a-guy-or-girl-w... [More]
A Marching Ants Animation for Universal Windows Apps 17 June 2014 Diederik-Krols Universal Windows Apps, Windows Phone, WinRT In a lot of apps we need to draw lines on some kind of map to display a route. If you want such line to also indicate the driving direction and speed, then you could apply the Marching Ants Effect, where you represent the route as a dotted or dashed line and let the dashes walk slowly sideways and u... [More]
A Show-All-Or-Nothing Behavior for Windows Universal Apps 10 June 2014 Diederik-Krols Universal Windows Apps Universal apps need to have a responsive UI that adapts to hugely differing form factors. This article describes how to build a Border control that hides its content when it’s too large to be fully displayed on the screen. It is implemented as a behavior, since –unlike in WPF- all native WinRT and W... [More]
ADAL at Techorama 10 June 2014 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, Azure At Techorama I gave a presentation about Active Directory Authentication Libraries (ADAL) and how you can easily use these to add authentication to your mobile apps.The session slides can be found hereADAL.pptx (1.2MB)