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To support Microsoft and the Microsoft developer community, we are giving away our best tools for building Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps. Free stuff (in exchange for some kind of valid email address)
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cool - more of this sorta stuff please dude
Bryce
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For the kick-off of its annual Tech Ed user conference, being held this week in Houston, Microsoft has released a bevy of tools and services to help administrators connect their internal operations to Microsoft's Azure cloud. Why would I want a cloud that runs on both electricity and gas?
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The test version of Gmail — which may never see an official release — dispenses with design elements that have been present from the very early days of the email service. Most notably, the unwieldily sidebar has been replaced with a slide-in pane.
"Do Not Track settings? Not our bag. But look, a pretty new interface!"
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Microsoft announced support for the Apache Cordova cross-device development platform in Visual Studio, open APIs for Visual Studio Online, a preview of the next .NET framework, changes to ASP.NET and a preview of Azure Files at its TechEd 2014 conference.
Nadella is hitting this Mobile First, Cloud-First strategy pretty hard out of the gate.
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Mozilla has said it will test a plan that puts ads and sponsored content on the boxes that appear when Firefox users launch a new tab on the browser.
Now where did I read about a new ad-blocker?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Glad I switched to Chrome/IE a few months ago.
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Doesn't seem like a big deal to me. Plus my new tab page is blank anyway.
Kevin
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There is no shortcut to acing the interview. It takes, time, dedication, research and practice. In spite of all the preparation even the most seasoned interviewee gets thrown a curve ball every once in a while. "Tell me why did you say 'good morning' when you know perfectly well that it's afternoon?"
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It feels to me that as an industry, we’re treading water. Every week there’s something new and shiny, but little that progresses the significant things that could make an enormous difference to our jobs. <have no=""> why <he might="think"></that>
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Kent Sharkey wrote: we’re treading water
Treading water? How about "drowning in water" ?
(I really need to stop reading CP tonight, yet another nerve. I will spare you the diatribe on this one -- just replace Extreme Programming and Refactoring with Javascript and j[bling] and you'll get the idea.)
Marc
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Getting pulled down by the rip tide of jingoism for the latest fad or tool by the Kool Kidz.
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What you said++
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I would be happy if they'd give us C# in the browsers instead of JavaScript...don't see why there can't be a browser equivalent of the Common Language Runtime so that we can work in the language of our choice.
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That ... should? be possible. At least with IE. It used to support various client-side languages (VBScript being one of the more common alternatives). You'd probably just need to implement some sort of COM shim to get it working. I think.
Maybe.
TTFN - Kent
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Why not just build Mono right into the browser?...some new classes for DOM manipulation and an interpreter and Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt, away you go.
The whole JavaScript thing just seems like a major wrong turn.
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That's - sadly - not even half of the actually required solution: how many "web developers" do understand the fact that some tasks are executed on the server while others are running on the client (browser)? "On my machine develop everything work fine, when deploy on server not work..."
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I thought Silverlight was supposed to provide this?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Sorry, forgot where I was.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Silverlight is pretty much dead though and you want to avoid having to install browser plugins, so it should be built into the browser.
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See, all the cool kids know that it's so great to write JavaScript for enterprise level apps that you use a language that looks a lot like C# to cross compile down to JavaScript. Makes sense really.
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There are C# to JS compilers such as Script#, but frankly I rather suffer work with pure Java Script when I have to.
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I love it. Web development is hard and TDD is dead on the same page.
95% of programmers can't bear the thought of having to work for a living. This stuff is hard. Grow up.
Test your code or go home.
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IMHO it is getting better, just not fast enough. I still have clients stuck on EI9, which requires special treatment...err hacks, to work correctly. They are being held to IE 9 due to compatibility issues with other web applications.
It is appalling how many LOB web applications simply don't work with newer browsers...breakage usually caused by handling of client events or DOM references such as innerText not being recognized.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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