Top 10 Free Developer Tools: Part 2
This post is the second part of a miniseries about the top 10 free developer tools. Here, we'll continue our look at some of the best developer’s tool currently out there and in demand. In part 1 we...
View ArticleHow WPF controls help different industries
For a non-technical audience, Microsoft’s Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) might feel a little abstract. Available in some form or another since 2006, WPF has been used in a number of popular...
View ArticleThe Top 8 Habits of Successful Developers
The desire for success is, arguably, part of our genetic make-up. Being successful means being happy, and pretty much everyone strives for happiness. When we become happy, chemicals in our brains...
View ArticleHow to Choose a BI and Analytics Tool for Your Company
For a long time, Business Intelligence (BI) was the specialized domain belonging to your company’s statistics expert. However, in the last few years, we’ve seen an exponential growth in BI tools for...
View ArticleTop Developer Meetups: San Francisco, CA
Here we are with the second installment of Top Developer Meetups in the USA! This city is one I'm sure isn't a surprise for anyone, since it's a hub for tech aficionados of all flavors, San Francisco,...
View ArticleHow does Xamarin Studio compare to native Android development?
When developing apps for Android, your first instinct may well be to open up Android Studio. Since this environment gives you all the tools, support and libraries you would want to build an Android...
View ArticleThe Top 5 Scott Hanselman Videos on the Web
We don’t hear the word ‘famous’ all too often in the programming world, but by definition, famous is simply “being known by many people”. In that regard, there are some individuals who have a very big...
View ArticleDemystifying Box-and-whisker plots — Part 1
If you browse through a large, printed, newspaper and pick out all the charts you find you'll probably come across some of the following: bar chart, timeseries (line chart), pie chart, donut chart,...
View ArticleDeveloper News - What's IN with the Infragistics Community? (1/11-1/24)
This installment of Developer News has an article that will teach you everything from coding via gamification all the way through how to beef up your resume with the most in-demand languages for 2016....
View ArticleCreating a photo album for ASP.NET MVC 5 Users using Azure BLOB storage
In this blog post, we will integrate ASP.NET MVC with Azure BLOB Storage by saving an image for an ASP.NET Identity 2.0 user in Azure BLOB Storage. We’re going to cover a lot of ground in this post,...
View ArticleDemystifying Box-and-whisker Plots — Part 2
Having shown you how to read range bars and box-and-whiskers in Part 1, I now want to use some real-world data to illustrate why they can be useful. Specifically, I'm going to use data relating to the...
View ArticleThe SOLID principles in real life
Hopefully you're familiar with the SOLID principles, particularly if you program in object oriented languages. The wisdom contained therein (mostly) isn't limited to object oriented languages, but...
View ArticleJust How Secure is Your Mobile Data?
How secure is your company’s enterprise mobile data? The simple answer: it all depends on you.In today’s enterprise, the expectation to provide employees with access to company data from mobile devices...
View ArticleXamarin adds Java: What does this mean?
In 2012’s The Avengers, an unparalleled force of Marvel superheroes come together to save humanity from enslavement by an alien army. Replacing the tight-fitting spandex of old with shiny armor and a...
View ArticleSteering LED RGBW light bulb in .NET
IntroductionMilight LED RGBW light bulbs are a lighting system similar to the Phillips Hue light bulbs. Both work using the same pattern: they can be controlled via wireless network via software you...
View ArticleWhat does it mean to be an Agile tester?
There is a growing trend across many industries to return to more ‘traditional’ production methods - from the craft beer revolution to coffee machines to surfboards, there’s more interest than ever in...
View ArticleDeveloper Quotes: Edition 4
Developer quotes, edition four is hot off the presses! Check out these two timeless quotes and feel free to share them!Share With The Code Below!<a...
View ArticleWhat is the story behind www.w3fools.com?
W3Schools is a web developer information website, and its content consists of tutorials and references relating to multiple programming languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQ amongst others. It came...
View ArticleHigh stakes programming by coincidence
Have you ever found yourself running your code to test out some behavior when you noticed something unrelated and thought, "that's odd?" Maybe you wanted to verify that clicking "run" kicked off the...
View ArticleHow NOT to run scrum meetings for software developers
Since the Agile manifesto was published in February 2001, software development has evolved into a collaborative process of rapid and constant change. Nearly fifteen years on, Agile has been pretty...
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