The LA Times recently ran an article covering the slant that the iPhone SDK NDA is hampering development and stifling programmers. I was quoted in the article
Are you hopelessly addicted to programming in SharePoint? Do you think that everything in the world can be fixed using a custom list, some duct tape, the BDC and chewing gum? If so, read this post!
This year's WWDC is bound to be one of the coolest, most amazing and knowledge-packed ever. They have an entire track devoted to the iPhone - read the post for more details!
Recently I tried to do some binding of data in a table view to Core Data entities, and found the experience extremely pleasant. Start to finish took me 18 minutes.
Microsoft's WPF/E, which is now called Silverlight, is a cross-platform, cross-browser platform for RIA (Rich Interactive Application). Question is: will anyone use it??
The combination of using Distributed Objects and Bonjour in Cocoa is as sweet as combining Peanut Butter and Chocolate. A peanut butter cup of coding joy.
I've been using Visual Studio since back in the days when it was used as the sole development tool for ASP/VBScript web applications.. I've been using Xcode for a few weeks, yet something drastic has happened.
This blog entry contains a summary of some of my experiences in using state machine workflows to control the flow and logic of a complex WPF application
I've had experience beta testing every single .NET Framework release, as well as Vista, Longhorn (before it was Vista), and Win2k3 "R2", and now i've had an incredible experience beta testing OSX Leopard.
Having been a C# developer for more than 6 years, and starting to explore the world of Cocoa programming with Objective-C 2.0, I've discovered a fundamental difference in Developer Experience philosophy.
I was recently working with a sample in Aaron Hillegass' book that used an enumerator and, with the help of another reader, made some improvements to adding an observer to an array of objects
While exploring various aspects of Cocoa and Objective-C, I stumbled upon the NSUndoManager, which is quite possibly one of my favorite features of Cocoa
I've been convering the code samples in Aaron's books from Tiger to Leopard with stunning results. This is a description of one of the samples in chapter 6, "Bindings and NSController"
After having spent a little bit of time creating rudimentary interfaces in interface builder, I'm noticing some horrible habits I've developed in Visual Studio.
The first in a series of blog posts chronicling my attempt to learn as much about Cocoa and Mac OS X programming as I know about .NET programming. This blog post covers my first Cocoa application - the Currency Converter sample application.
In November, Microsoft released a CTP of Visual Studio extensions that purport to make the life of SharePoint developers easier. As a SharePoint developer and author of a SharePoint book I can vouch for that - these tools should be REQUIRED.
I've been expanding on the basic network framework for the Ulysses Agenda game and I've got a working authentication service up and running - and uses the "SOA on an ESB" pattern
Some of you may have noticed a similarity between UA's network design and ESB implementations that embrace SOA concepts. This post illustrates how the design and implementation of Ulysses Agenda is simple, yet extremely extensible. Thanks to ESB/SOA
I've got a couple tips to speed the process of setting your Vista box up as a .NET 3.0 development machine, because God knows you sure as hell won't be gaming with this Operating System for the next couple of months at least
As you know, I'm cramming to try and finish up the drafts for the SharePoint book. I'm also doing a lot of work with LINQ in my "spare" time... I wondered what might happen if you combine them.
