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Programmer's Guide to Starting a Software Company and Building an Enterprise Application - Article 4

by Paul Rony

Programmer's Guide to Starting a Software Company and Building an Enterprise Application

"Serverless" CQRS using Azure Event Grid and Durable Functions

by Duncan Edwards Jones

Using Azure Event Grid and Durable Functions as the backbone for a serverless CQRS architecture

#1 iPhone Teaching Site Scales Up and Down on Mosso

by Mosso Hosting Cloud

After experiencing scaling issues with their previous hosting provider, the founders of the #1 iPhone tutorial site turned to Mosso, Rackspace’s cloud hosting division, because of the company’s tech support, scalability and affordability.

10 common errors when implementing accessibility

by Trenton Moss

Web developers often make the same errors as each other when implementing accessibility - find out what these are and how to avoid making these mistakes.

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Programmer's Guide to Starting a Software Company and Building an Enterprise Application - Article 4

by Paul Rony

Programmer's Guide to Starting a Software Company and Building an Enterprise Application

"Serverless" CQRS using Azure Event Grid and Durable Functions

by Duncan Edwards Jones

Using Azure Event Grid and Durable Functions as the backbone for a serverless CQRS architecture

#1 iPhone Teaching Site Scales Up and Down on Mosso

by Mosso Hosting Cloud

10 common errors when implementing accessibility

by Trenton Moss

Web developers often make the same errors as each other when implementing accessibility - find out what these are and how to avoid making these mistakes.

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Advertising Network Options for Windows Phone XNA Games

by Dan Colasanti

What I learned while evaluating and integrating XNA ad-network SDKs.

ASO – App Store Optimization for Beginners

by Isaac RF

ASO – App Store Optimization for Beginners

Barcodes, Document Flow and 100 Points Identification on MS Dynamics CRM 2011

by Pavel Korsukov

Barcodes, Document Flow and 100 Points Identification on MS Dynamics CRM 2011

Business Intelligence – How to Beat the Recession

by JasonDove

Business Intelligence can help you to ensure that your business is one of those survivors.

Code Management on a budget

by Ritesh Ramesh

Code Management on a budget

Common Sense Software Engineering – Part III; Risk Analysis

by Steve Naidamast

The following piece describes a process for performing “Risk Analysis”, also known as “Risk Management”.

Creating a Price Crawler to Stay Competitive – A Creative, White Hat Hack

by John Y.

Reason for sharing this story: an example of what I think is thinking outside of the box.

Dealing With Management Disdain for Refactoring and Unit Testing

by mwootendev

I would like to touch on some of my personal experiences with refactoring and unit testing that have proven that there is a value to those tasks.

Define Your Own Dialog Box in Winform

by Md. Rashim Uddin

How to define your own dialog box

Developer Termination: A Respectful Guide

by Zac Gery

The true caliber of a company is not how they treat their employees day-to-day; it's how they let them go.

Developing for .NET 2.0 in 2012

by Michael Banzon

Developing for .NET 2.0 in 2012

Drag and Drop between Multiple Trees in Jquery using jstree

by Chris A. Johnson

Drag and Drop between Multiple Trees in Jquery using jstree

Duplex Service in WCF

by Md. Rashim Uddin

Duplex service in WCF

Dynamic Behaviors Or Dynamic Typing

by Gary H Guo

Dynamic behaviors with dynamic typing or dynamic decorating

Dynamic Behaviors With Static Typing

by Gary H Guo

Add dynamic behaviors using static typing

ESWC 2008 Day 1

by Anna-Jayne Metcalfe

Last night's reception at Maximilian's restaurant on Friedrichstraße was great fun. Good food, great beer (I particularly liked the Berliner Weiß) and fantastic company. After breakfast we set up our stand in the sponsor's area (complete with the usual last minute presentation edits).

ESWC 2008 Day 2

by Anna-Jayne Metcalfe

Last night we descended en-masse on Berliner Republik, a quirky bar where the beer prices go up and down according to demand (they even have a mini stock exchange - watch for the crashes and run for the bar!). Really good food, too.

Guide for building C# apps on Ubuntu: Graphical applications using Windows Forms

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this episode I am going to talk about using graphical applications in Mono. The graphical framework to use would be Windows Forms.

Guide for Building C# Apps on Ubuntu: MonoProject Introduction

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This is the first part in the series of posts about Ubuntu programming using C# language. In this post, I have discussed a few features of MonoProject IDE, which is used for C# programming on Ubuntu environment.

Guide For Building C# Apps on Ubuntu: NuGet Packages

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this post version, I have talked about NuGet packages and their management in Mono environment.

Hashing Passwords in .NET Core with Tips

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this post, I talk about hashing the passwords in .NET Core.

Helper Function to Update/Insert/Delete Collections in Linq2Sql

by m_kramar

Helper function to update/insert/delete collections in Linq2Sql

Hiring Developers: How to Avoid Buyer's Remorse

by Zac Gery

About hiring developers.

How Programming Accidentally Runs Companies

by Zac Gery

And without proper recognition, software development can accidentally slide into the driver's seat. When does this happen? When developers start making decisions and recommendations that stray too far from a company's vision.

How to configure and use Entity Framework

by Libish Varghese Jacob

Configuring and using Entity Framework 4.1 for my Open Source project.

How to Hire a Senior Developer?

by Tom Janssens

How to hire a senior developer

HTTPS Communication in WCF using Self-sign Certificate

by Md. Rashim Uddin

HTTPS Communication in WCF

Is RIM the Next Novell?

by David Truxall

RIM is trying to give the enterprise market to someone, why isn’t Microsoft taking it this time?

Is there value in attending Build?

by Zac Gery

Is there value in attending Build?

Is there value in attending TechEd?

by Zac Gery

The short answer is, "Yes."

Leadership in Software Development

by Zac Gery

Leadership is a continuous journey of learning, teaching, and growing. Knowing this, how does one gain those abilities?

Learning continuously and getting better

by Betclic Tech

Only by setting in place a culture of learning can we hope to really get better. Teams that learn continuously are more adaptive, ready to tackle new projects and unknown stuff. They are in a moving spirit, pushing forward innovation.

Learning SQLite databases in Xamarin for Android

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this article I will give you a complete overview of SQLite databases in Android and how to consume them using Xamarin APIs.

Logging and Tracing WCF Soap Messages

by Md. Rashim Uddin

How to log and trace WCF Soap messages?

Make Some Cash Developing for Windows Phone

by Inaki Ayucar

In this post, I’ll try to share my thoughts and experience developing applications for the Windows Phone Marketplace.

Mobile Website Expansion Offers Businesses Unlimited Potential

by Won Dong

Mobile website expansion offers business unlimited potential

On Conducting Technical Interviews…

by Nizar Noorani

Some tips on what works and what doesn’t when interviewing software developers…

OOP, FP and OD

by Gary H Guo

How Object-Oriented Programming is benefited from Functional Programming and Object Decoration

Open Source Risks

by David Truxall

As a developer, what is the quantifiable risk of using an Open Source library? We need to address this situation without killing the collaboration and openness of Open Source.

Overview of DateTime Object Usage in ASP.NET Websites and Web Applications

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This article provides an overview of the DateTime object in ASP.NET website, and a source code and example of a few scenarios in which using DateTime would be easy and simple, but tricky.

Programmer Happiness: It's the Little Things

by Zac Gery

Salary and promotion opportunities aside, sometimes it's the small things that add up.

Programming C# on Mac — One post guide

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This is an introductory post for Mac developers to get started using C# programming language on Mac environments using Mono Project!

Progress Bar in Cell – Excel

by johnniealan

This article describes about adding progress bar in cell.

Requirements Engineering for Business Apps

by Simon Monk

A couple of techniques that we apply during our requirements gathering

Software Build vs. Buy: What's Best for You?

by Dynms

Much like buying a house, choosing whether or not to customize the system to your needs is based on a multitude of factors and needs to be made on a situational basis.

Someday Is a Lie

by Keyhole Software

Someday Is a Lie

SQL Exercise During Candidate Interview Process

by Andrew Zwicker

A discussion of how BPS uses a SQL exercise for candidates and why it is helpful.

Tame Application Flexibility By Loose Coupling With Object Decoration

by Gary H Guo

Discuss application flexibility of static typing.

Technical Resumes and Interviews

by David Truxall

Some of my pet peeves that I run across during interviews (or on resumes) that will immediately get you removed from consideration.

by Terrence Dorsey

Online services are going to steal all of our content and use it to enrich themselves. Or maybe they're not. It makes for great paranoid headlines whenever a popular site updates their terms of services, but what's really happening here?

The Need for Secure Coding

by CdnSecurityEngineer

The reality is that, today’s information security landscape sucks, attacks are becoming more sophisticated, and getting folks involved in producing the software thinking about security seems like a losing battle.

Uploading the Files – HTML5 and jQuery Way!

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

Uploading the files - HTML5 and jQuery way

WebSocket in WCF

by Md. Rashim Uddin

Getting introduced to WCF WebSocket

Where Is It? Where Brick and Mortar Misses the Mark

by Zac Gery

Happy visitors make happy customers!

Why Great Teams Build Great Products

by Zac Gery

Placing the five brightest or fastest developers on a team does not guarantee a "dream team" with unbounded productivity.