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Create Beautiful Dashboards On The Move
ReportPlus, our flagship iOS dashboard tool (available on iTunes), takes the idea of working with dashboards on an iOS device to the next level. You see, most mobile dashboard tools let you view a...
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Southern California Inland Empire .Net User Group MVM Event
Last Tuesday, I had the opportunity to attend and present at the Most Valuable Member event of the Inland Empire User Group. This was the 6th year for the MVM event which was held at the San...
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Evaluating the New Pinterest
Yes, Its true. I'm a Pinterest Addict. I spend my free time browsing everything from Photography to new recipes and UI patterns to cute outfits. The site already has millions of users and a great...
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Windows Azure introduces pay-by-the-minute feature
A concern when architecting for the cloud is dealing with elasticity. The pricing of Windows Azure on compute / VM roles had an affect on how you dealt with scaling for demand. Previously if you spun...
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Community report: Australian Microsoft Bizspark Azure camps
Last week, I flew around Australia helping out with the Bizspark dev camps. I answered questions that the attendees had on development on Windows Azure as well as Windows 8 and Windows Phone. I also...
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Windows Azure editorial for MSDN flash
I was asked to write an editorial for MSDN flash. It hasn’t been published yet, but here is the raw article I submitted. At Build 2013, Microsoft covered a lot of the recent activity within the Windows...
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Mobile Application Revenue Will Reach $27 Billion in 2013
The growing popularity of smartphones and tablets has resulted in a mobile applications market that is just as impressive as these powerful devices themselves. Apps are available for consumers and...
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Cloud Computing Creating New Possibilities for Mobile Applications
Cloud computing has become an IT staple in a number of ways, allowing businesses of all sizes to reduce costs, improve employee collaboration and replace aging infrastructures. The mobile revolution...
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Xbox One cloud + Geo-distributed Windows Azure datacentres
Previously I blogged about how Microsoft were creating new Windows Azure data centres in Australia http://davidburela.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/windows-azure-datacentres-coming-to-australia/.Another...
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WPF 3D Surface Chart for your scatter data
As part of the NetAdvantage for WPF product, we already offer a substantial array of data visualization controls such as a high-speed chart, map, pivot grid, timeline, treemap and others. These have...
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Introduction to Systematic Programming – Week 5
In the event that you're just joining in, here's a guide to the rest of this series:Intro to “Introduction to Systematic Programming” CourseIntroduction to Systematic Programming – Week 1Introduction...
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What is SharePoint?
Microsoft SharePoint is an incredibly popular tool for corporate collaboration and documentation efforts. With each new iteration, Microsoft creates new updates for the platform from the previous...
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Android Leading Both Microsoft and Apple in the Operating Systems Market
The mobile device craze is bigger than it ever was, thanks to innovative gadgets like smartphones and tablets, which have taken over most of the mobile device market. Although laptops and PCs still...
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Data Context is Essential for Successful SharePoint Deployments
Microsoft SharePoint is one of the most effective tools for helping companies enhance employee collaboration by providing centralized access to mission-critical data. Some firms, however, overlook a...
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Windows Phone Still Has a Fighting Chance in the Smartphone Market
Microsoft is attempting to assert itself as the third platform in the ever-growing smartphone market, which is currently dominated by Android and iOS. Although Windows Phone 8 may be far behind these...
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Mucking About with Storyboard Steps
Indigo's storyboarding tool is optimized for banging out quick stories and illustrating those steps with either images or real prototype screens. What might not be so obvious is that you can branch out...
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Add Windows 8 Aero Theme Support to your WPF Custom Control
If you write your own WPF custom controls, you are probably aware of how to go about adding theming support for the various Windows themes. One of the more popular themes introduced in Windows Vista,...
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10 Design trends 2013 – Where did all the gradients go?
Here is a list of 10 design trends I'm seeing this year:Large images beautiful imagery Something that has become more and more popular in the design world is putting your header copy of a big beautiful...
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Apple's iOS Continues to Impact the Smartphone Industry Despite Heavy...
Apple's iOS operating system has pioneered both the smartphone and tablet markets, thanks to its easy-to-use interface and loads of attractive features that include a bevy of applications designed for...
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Introducing Windows Phone Developer Magazine
I decided to test the waters on a new feature of my favorite iPad app: Flipboard. Flipboard is one of my favorite apps on the iPad, which is also available on Android and coming soon on Windows Phone 8...
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