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More Than A Week With The Surface Pro - Very Happy
Valentine's morning I gave myself a gift I had been wanting for quite some time, a 128GB Surface Pro . Acquiring my Surface may have been the most cumbersome task I have ever done to purchase a...
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Why I Think Microsoft Should Buy Barnes & Noble
One of the topics discussed recently on Windows Weekly was Barnes and Noble's financial issues . During the discussion Mary Jo Foley mentioned the idea of Microsoft buying the retail chain. She...
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Use a DataList element for an HTML5 Auto Complete Experience
Guided user input is almost always a good idea when architecting a data entry experience. You want to help the user avoid potential mistakes. With on screen, mobile keyboards you want to reduce the...
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HTML5 Is Ready For the Big Time, Are You?
Much has been said and 'debated' in recent years about the viability of HTML5. It should be obvious where I stand if you read my Blog or talk to me in person. HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript are certainly...
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The Good and Bad For MtGox.com - Helping it Scale With Web Performance...
BitCoin seems to be latest rage with wild value fluctuations. The past few days have seen a very wild roller coaster for the online currency. Most of the world's BitCoins are exchanged at MtGox.com ,...
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Why Its Time to Sunset jQuery
I owe so much to John Resig and the jQuery team for creating such a wonderful framework. I have staked most of my recent career on jQuery the way I staked my career on ASP.NET back in 2001. I have...
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Listen to Me Talk to Carl & Richard about the Surface Pro, Mobile Development...
A few weeks ago I got to sit down and chat with the DotNetRocks guys about a variety of topics. The initial premise for the interview was to talk about the Surface and why I love it so much. I think we...
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HTML5 and CSS3 Zebra Striping - Look Ma No JavaScript
It was 5 maybe 6 years ago when I first started learning jQuery. One of the first things I did was order the jQuery In Action book . If you have read that book you should remember one of the first...
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Introducing ToolbarJS - A HTML5 JavaScript Library to Implement the Windows...
Back in February I released deeptissuejs , a HTML5, JavaScript touch gesture library. In January I release panoramajs a HTML5, JavaScript library to implement the basic Windows Phone panorama control...
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17000 Tweets in 365 Days - Not Too Many To Be Annoying
What the heck was I thinking? Why did I do it? What did I learn? How did I do it? These are all things I have asked myself and others have asked me over the past year. It sounds like an odd labor to...
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Publish to Directly To Azure Web Sites With WebMatrix
WebMatrix is one of my favorite development tools because it really allows me to focus on what I love to do most, build modern web clients. It is a free Web IDE available from Microsoft and today they...
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Using The New Git Support in WebMatrix 3
WebMatrix is probably my favorite web development IDE because it is so simple and easy to use. Sure I use Visual Studio 2012 everyday and it has probably the best web development features available on...
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You Don't Need Windows To Test Your Web Site in Internet Explorer
I know the majority of developers reading my Blogs are typically ASP.NET, enterprise developers. This means they develop on a Windows machine using Visual Studio most of the time. However in the broad...
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Sending a Photo via SMS on Windows Phone
Smartphones are awesome. They are the modern Swiss Army Knife because they do so much. One of the most important features in my opinion is taking photos. My Nokia Lumia has one of the best cameras...
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Don't Inject Markup in A Web Page using Document.Write
Look around just about every consumer facing site you visit these days has a third party script reference. Just about everyone uses Google Analytics and if you are like a former client of mine you have...
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