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Take a few minutes to complete our latest development survey and then enter in a drawing to win a $50 Amazon gift certificate. Have you built a Metro-style app for Windows 8? Tell us about it.
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There's an error in the form - question 2 should be optional - doesn't apply if the answer to question 1 is "No" 
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This study doesn't include WPF development. The only options are
HTML5 + JavaScript/WinJS
XAML + C#/Visual Basic
XAML/DX with C++
Everything makes sense in someone's mind
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Question 1 could be multiple choice. Some of us have built apps in the Dev preview AND the Consumer preview.
Similarly, I've also coded in the three types for Question 2.
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Thanks for the feedback, guys. We'll make sure to address these issues in future surveys.
In the meantime, if you have to make just one choice where several would be better, just pick the option most recently used or most relevant to you.
There's no right answer. We're just gauging current usage and preferences.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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This week, contribute a news item in the Insider News forum and you'll have a chance to win a $25 Amazon gift card. The heart of The Code Project is member contributions. Now you can contribute news, too.
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Often you need to test a website on an tablet device such as an iPad using a local development machine’s web server. For whatever reason the available Wi-Fi when developing your site may be on another subnet or network entirely to your development machine. Situations like these call for a bit of creative thinking and a different approach, so if this is a problem you face here’s my take on a possible solution. DIY ASP.NET + IIS test network.
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Is it weird for a man to kiss another man for making his development life much much easier?
I can't wait to try this out at work. 
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AspDotNetDev wrote: I can't wait to try this out at work.
The new development technique, that is...
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It's polite to ask first.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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Today's developers are overwhelmingly young and male, and they're barring the door from a more diverse workforce. Is this an industry or a fraternity?
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If CP is any indication, there are a lot of people on here that have formed cliques in the forums. Fraternity might not be far off.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Hopeless developers have a special ability to wreak havoc on a job, as at the other end of the hierarchical organogramme do hopeless senior managers. But taking stock now, I feel the focus has been too narrow and has left gaps in my analysis. I have failed to take a holistic, 360 degree, front to back, soup to nuts view of the shambolic IT space. Let us start at the top, with those who destroy time, money and hope as a matter of routine.
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Apparently I'm the only one who finds this amusing. Ah wel...
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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Despite the dramatic shift toward simplification in software interfaces, the world of development tools continues to shrink our workspace with feature after feature in every release. Even with all of these things at our disposal, why are we still looking all over the place for the things we need when we're coding? We can do better. This may be the IDE you've been looking for.
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It's getting to the point where there are so many cool open source projects that I can't keep up. Seriously, just pick a word out of the dictionary at random and that's the name of an up and coming JavaScript library. Sammy, you've got a Knockout Cappuccino in your Angular Handlebar Mustache.
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What if Google had been invented in the 1980s? Dig out your modem, plug it into an available comm port, and dial in to explore the World Wide Web... or just check out this page. Is your site Lynx-compatible, too?
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Learning how to program is going to be the most useful new skill we can teach our kids today. Last Sunday, I taught six kids of ages 5 to 7 how to program. “In what programming language?” you may ask. Well... I didn’t use a programming language, at least none that you know of. In fact, I didn’t even use a computer. Instead, I devised a game called “How To Train Your Robot”. “The only second language you should worry about your kids learning is programming.”
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Given a sea of trends, how do you surface the most important ones? In the era of big data, filters are necessary to prevent drowning users in a torrent of information. Surfacing only the starkest deviations from the expected brings focus to the unexpected and interesting. But what does it mean for a trend to be “interesting”? Finding the most important needles in the haystack.
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One of the hot topics in computer science is the study of unconventional forms of computation. Various groups have tried computing with exotic substances such as chemicals like hot ice and even with a single celled organism called a slime mould. Today, we look at one of the more curious variations on this theme--a computer that exploits the swarming behaviour of soldier crabs. They think they know everything. You give them an inch, they swim all over you.
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Here are four relatively concrete ways that researchers attempt to understand large data sets, and some of the more common algorithms that are used. There are lots of variations on these, but this list is at least a good start. Auto racing, bull fighting, and data mining are the only real sports... all others are games.
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The iPad vs Android tablet debate shapes up like this: tablets are most effective when they’re the least intimidating [ITworld]
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Multicore chips don't scale as efficiently as they could because the data buses they use to communicate are also becoming overloaded.
MIT researcher Li-Shiuan Peh wants to change that by making multicore chips work more like the server clusters that provide the massed power underneath most major resource-intensive applications on the Internet.
[ITworld]
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I’m sharing the aspects I discovered this afternoon while trying to port one of the project from Windows Phone to WinRT. Let’s be clear my goal was just to see what it’s look like to port the code, I wasn’t able of course to port the WP7 app to WinRT in an afternoon, but here are the basics. From Windows Phone to Windows 8, the first steps.
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