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)
SQL Server 2014 In-memory OLTP (a.k.a Hekaton) @ Techorama 10 June 2014 Nico-Jacobs SQL Server, Talks A few days ago I presented a session on the In-Memory OLTP engine in SQL Server 2014 at Techorama, the Belgian developer conference. I talked about the good things In-Memory OLTP does, and the limitations it has. If you want to go through the slides and code examples again, feel free to download the... [More]
Presenting @ the Belgian SharePoint Saturday and Techorama 09 June 2014 Lieven-Iliano SharePoint This month I had the privelege to present a session at the Belgian SharePoint Saturday and the Techorama conference. As promised you can download both slidedecks at the links below:SharePoint Saturday: The SharePoint 2013 Design Manager: From HTML to SharePoint (2,2MB)Techorama Building a ... [More]
SharePoint Summit Toronto 02 June 2014 Michael-Van-Wesemael I just had the great opportunity of speaking on the Toronto SharePoint summit. Luckily also got some time for visiting the city.For those who are interested in the demos I showed in my two sessions: here they are: CSOM for Windows Phone Javascript for SharePoint
Loading GPX waypoints with Excel PowerQuery 02 June 2014 Nico-Jacobs Business Intelligence, Office, Power BI Plotting data on maps is becoming popular: We can use the geometry and geography data type in SQL Server, use the Reporting Services maps, Excel PowerView allows mapping coordinates on a map, and the recently released PowerMap plug-in in Excel offers beautiful visualizations of map data. But how ... [More]