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Legacy Code Preservation: Why Preserve An Abomination?

By the early aughts (2001-2005) Visual Basic had gone from state of the art to a legacy application language. Code written in VB was being replaced with...

1 replies - 2336 views - 05/10/13 by Steven Lott in Articles

Using the SkyDrive REST API

I have created a wrapper class to simplify my work with the SkyDrive REST API. I assume that you will be using a web application in this article. The...

0 replies - 2140 views - 05/01/13 by Prashant Khandelwal in Articles

ActiveMQ and .NET combined!

 ActiveMQ is one of the most popular messaging frameworks. For sure the most popular open source framework. Many people think that ActiveMQ works only...

0 replies - 3870 views - 04/15/13 by Łukasz Budnik in Articles

How We Achieved the Best Code Quality in My Career

My recently finished project produced the best code quality in my career so far. The key success factors were a clear architecture, insane compiler warning...

4 replies - 9872 views - 03/26/13 by Anders Abel in Articles

Web Service Interoperability

This is an ongoing blog to Web Services development. In my previous blog, I talked about JAX-WS framework in detail and how to create code first and...

0 replies - 1602 views - 03/08/13 by Naveen Balani in Articles

ScaleBase Overview – Your complete scale out partner

ScaleBase Overview – Your complete scale out partner Watch the Video below to learn how to scale out your MySQL Database with ScaleBase. Cost-effectively...

0 replies - 297 views - 02/22/13 by Kelley Gemma in Uncategorized

DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (2/11/13)

IoC Containers Considered Harmful  Øyvind Bakksjø is a bit skeptical of where the Java community is heading.  Although he's completely fine with...

0 replies - 2282 views - 02/11/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

ActuateOne for OEMs

"Actuate BIRT’s (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool) proven technology allows software companies to innovate, leapfrog the competition and meet...

0 replies - 331 views - 01/22/13 by Kelley Gemma in Uncategorized

Mobile, Tablet and Desktop Development All at The Same Time

When you go to create a mobile app for each major platform you quickly realise that it’s a mind boggling task with many languages and tools out there to...

0 replies - 3839 views - 01/21/13 by Douglas Rathbone in Articles

Google Says In-Browser Maps Will Come Back to Windows Phone

First, Google Maps "didn't work on mobile IE" and redirected to the Google homepage. According to Google: The mobile web version of Google Maps is optimized...

0 replies - 1415 views - 01/08/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Misspelling "Windows Phone" Makes Google Maps Work on WP8

 The following video is presented by Matthias Shapiro. As of January 5, 2013 Google Maps doesn't load on my Windows Phone 8 device. Google has...

0 replies - 3270 views - 01/07/13 by Allen Coin in Articles

This is Microsoft's Vision of 2019

Here's Microsoft's look forward at technology and communication in 2019. What do you expect the tech landscape to look like in six years? Happy new...

0 replies - 5381 views - 12/31/12 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Understanding Setup and Sync on Windows Phone 8

WPXbox runs you through all the basics of the Windows Phone setup process. Nothing too difficult, but it's useful for devs to understand their users'...

0 replies - 2727 views - 12/30/12 by Eric Gregory in Articles

So Long and Thanks for All the Expression: Expression Suite is End-of-Life

arstechnica - Microsoft killing off Expression suite of Web and design tools"Microsoft has quietly announced that its Expression...

0 replies - 2227 views - 12/29/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles

Google's Android Tablet Recommendations Apply to WP Ports Too

Google has a tablet app quality checklist recommended for anyone wanting to publish an app for Android tablets in the Play store.It's no doubt useful...

0 replies - 2151 views - 12/27/12 by Matt Lacey in Articles