Interesting Finds: April 10, 2012 April 10, 2012
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Microsoft + ASP.NET + Open Source- This Time for Sure! – Chris Sells
The Pitch- Why Startup Presentations Fail to Get Funded – SandHill.com
WCF Data Services 5.0 RTM Release – WCF Data Services Team
The Practical Guide to Multithreading – Part 1 – Ajay Vijayvargiya
System.DateTime- Good practices and common pitfalls – David Rickard
Interesting Finds: March 26, 2012 March 26, 2012
Posted by Hank Wallace in Linkroll.Tags: Learning, Windows 8, XAML
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Modern Web Development – Part 8 – Shawn Wildermuth
How Tech Will Transform the Traditional Classroom – Benjamin Jackson
Windows 8: Good News for XAML Developers – Jerry Nixon
Interesting Finds: March 23, 2012 March 23, 2012
Posted by Hank Wallace in Linkroll.Tags: ASP.NET, jQuery, MVC, REST, WCF
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WCF Backward Compatibility and Versioning Strategies – Part 3 – Kausik Nag
Best of jQuery- An opinionated visual collection of jQuery interaction plugins – bestofjquery
Best practices for Web services versioning – developerWorks
Creating a jQuery Modal Confirmation Dialog in MVC3 – Primary Objects
JQuery 1.7.2 Released
Versioning REST services – Scott Seely
Interesting Finds: March 20, 2012 March 20, 2012
Posted by Hank Wallace in Linkroll.Tags: ASP.NET, JavaScript, jQuery, Learning, Startups, WCF
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Surprising Side Effects of Rising College Costs – Erik Thauvin
Tools and Blogs for Startups – Steve Blank
What’s The Point Of Using WCF In A Web App? – Davy Brion
Introduction to using jQuery with Web Services – Andy Marshall
When to Pivot, and When to Stay the Course – Under30CEO
70 lessons I learnt in 7 days in Silicon Valley and SXSW – Nik Adhia
ASP.NET MVC3 Razor with jQuery for Beginners – Jovan Popovic
JavaScript for the C# Guy: Scopes – Shawn Wildermuth
7 Resources Every JavaScript Developer Should Know – Rob Bazinet
Driving me to Mac? March 14, 2012
Posted by Hank Wallace in Uncategorized.Tags: Windows 8
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Microsoft recently released their Windows 8 Consumer Preview. I installed it to a virtual machine using VMware and spent all of 10 minutes looking at it, but something just doesn’t feel right about it. I’m a developer (most of the time) and don’t want any part of their touch-based startup screen. I dismissed the thought and went back to real work.
Today I saw How Real People Will Use Windows 8. My first reaction was to laugh, but this points to a real problem that Microsoft needs to address. In my opinion, there is a real difference between the user experience of a desktop OS and a tablet/smartphone OS. While touch is a nice addition, I doubt that many users will use touch on their desktops. This “mode” switch required in Windows 8, if not changed, will result in their newest OS being a failure for most users.
Microsoft is in real trouble. Are they trying to drive me to a Mac?
Interesting Finds: March 14, 2012 March 14, 2012
Posted by Hank Wallace in Linkroll.Tags: Entity Framework, Startups, Windows 8
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EF Code First – Tips and Tricks – Code Capers
MassChallenge- A Colossal Startup Accelerator That’s 100% Free – Forbes
7 Boston startups are finalists in SXSW accelerator – Kyle Alspach
How Real People Will Use Windows 8 – Chris Smith
How to Test Your Startup Idea in a Weekend – Rahil Sondhi
Interesting Finds: March 12, 2012 March 12, 2012
Posted by Hank Wallace in Linkroll.Tags: Azure, C#
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Windows Azure toolkit for Windows 8 – Hosam Kamel
Never Negotiate Piecemeal. Here’s Why – Mark Suster
Replace Switch Statements with Dictionary and Func<> – Chris Surfleet
Interesting Finds: March 9, 2012 March 9, 2012
Posted by Hank Wallace in Linkroll.Tags: Azure, Mobile, Windows 8
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Install Windows 8 beta in Your System using VirtualBox on Windows & Mac – SpicyTricks
Why cross-platform mobile toolkits are a bad idea – Martin Fowler
Announcing Reduced Pricing on Windows Azure Storage and Compute – Steven Martin
Interesting Finds: March 8, 2012 March 8, 2012
Posted by Hank Wallace in Linkroll.Tags: ASP.NET, Cloud Services, Learning, WCF
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Stanford offers more free online classes for the world – Jamie Beckett
How Amazon Web Services dominate infrastructure as a service - Tim Anderson
Introduction to the ASP.NET Web API – Stephen Walther
WCF or ASP.NET Web APIs- My two cents on the subject – Ido Faltow
Interesting Finds: March 7, 2012 March 7, 2012
Posted by Hank Wallace in Linkroll.Tags: Hiring, Startups, Visual Studio, WCF
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WCF Backwards Compatibility and Versioning Strategies – Part 1 – Kausik Nag
Why start up in Boston? – Barb Darrow
Hiring Tips for First-Time Entrepreneurs – Keith Cline
SharpComments extension for Visual Studio 2010 – Sergey Vlasov
Visual Studio 11- New Features Preview – Jerry Nixon
Change Considered Harmful? – The New Visual Studio Look and Feel – Scott Hanselman
How to Hire a Programmer – Coding Horror
Interesting Finds: March 6, 2012 March 6, 2012
Posted by Hank Wallace in Linkroll.Tags: ASP.NET, Cloud Services, jQuery, MVC, Visual Studio, Windows 8
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Amazon or self-hosted? – Miha Ahronovitz
A complete list of resources for METRO Windows 8 Developers – Lee Stott
View Engines in ASP.NET MVC – Jovan Popovic
Eight books for .NET (mostly) developers (mostly web) you must read – Geekbeing
New England Code Camp – March 31st – Jim O’Neil
Visual Studio ’11’ Announced – The Visual Studio Blog
MIT Online vs. Your Local College- How Will Web Learning Stack Up? – Alan Jacobs
JQuery UI 1.8.18 Released – jQuery UI Blog
Interesting Finds: February 17, 2012 February 17, 2012
Posted by Hank Wallace in Linkroll.Tags: Azure, Entity Framework, Interview, OAuth, REST, WCF
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Using EF 4.3 Code First Migrations with an Existing Database – Julie Lerman
Designing a Secure REST API with OAuth2 You Can Be Proud Of – Ahmet Alp Balkan
What’s new in WCF 4.5- UDP transport support – DotNetKicks
The New Pricing Model for SQL Azure Explained! – Cihan Biyikoglu
The Three “True” Interview Questions – Randy Guthrie
Interesting Finds: February 16, 2012 February 16, 2012
Posted by Hank Wallace in Linkroll.Tags: Azure, REST, Silverlight, Startups, XAML
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Getting started with designing a Secure REST (Web) API – Riyad Kalla
Modern Web Development – Part 5 – Shawn Wildermuth
Camels, XAML and Silverlight is dead- Long live Silverlight 5! – Surf4Fun
SQL AZURE LOST ITS LEASE! EVERYTHING MUST GO! – Brent Ozar
What If You’re Not CEO Material? – David Cohen
What makes the Boston startup scene special – Jeff Bussgang
Interesting Finds: February 15, 2012 February 15, 2012
Posted by Hank Wallace in Linkroll.Tags: Cloud Services
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AWS, Y Combinator and the Startup Boom – Stephen O’Grady
The Cost of Living in the Cloud – Matt Kiser
Interesting Finds: February 13, 2012 February 10, 2012
Posted by Hank Wallace in Linkroll.Tags: Amazon Web Services, Cloud Services, MVC, Windows 8, XAML
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Getting Started with User Experience Design
What I Learned Building a Startup on Microsoft Cloud Services: Part 1 – Liam Cavanagh
Amazon S3 Price Reduction
Client-Side MVC Frameworks Compared – Paul Hammant
Windows 8 and the future of XAML: The Windows Runtime (WinRT) – Microsoft Malaysia
Amazon Web Services Customer List (Case Studies)
Which is less expensive: Amazon or self-hosted?
Be Careful When Comparing AWS Costs…
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