Category: Development

The mistake that kills too many start ups – Talk to your customers!

Callon Campbell [MVP] on March 20, 2013

Great Post: Talk to Your Users. Or Else!

I completely agree with what they have to say. This is why we use UserVoice for our ReflectInsight .NET Logging tool over at ReflectSoftware for capturing feedback and support from our customers.

I have not tried the other tools mentioned, but I highly recommend that you evaluate them and use one, even if it’s for something simple.

Enjoy!

Cloud Development Mobile Web

Windows Azure Mobile Services – Backend for Your Windows 8, iOS, and Android Apps

Callon Campbell [MVP] on March 15, 2013

Mobile app developers don’t need to care about servers and clouds, push notification services and databases. Windows Azure Mobile Services is a cloud-based offering that provides a complete backend for mobile apps including data access and push notifications, enabling you to focus on the mobile app infrastructure and code and forget about the server management intricacies. In this talk we’ll build a backend for a Windows 8 app, an iOS app, and an Android app — all accessing the same data store and server-side triggers.

Video: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/WindowsAzure/AzureConf2012/B01

References

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/

Design Development Mobile Web

Responsive Design: The Only Mobile Strategy That Scales

Callon Campbell [MVP] on March 15, 2013

http://www.sitefinity.com/mobile-web/responsive-design-graph?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=sm&utm_campaign=sm_t_telerik_rwdinfographic

Design Development

Create icons from any font character in Metro Studio 2

Callon Campbell [MVP] on March 13, 2013

I’ve been using Metro Studio 2 from Syncfusion for a while now to create beautiful looking Metro styled icons for Website, Windows Phone and Windows 8 development projects.

Today I got an email from Syncfusion about the ability to create icons from any font character. This is awesome stuff and I just wanted to share this with you.

If you haven’t tried Metro Studio 2, then head over and download it. It’s free and a tool I recommend every designer and developer should have in their toolbox.

Enjoy!

Download

http://www.syncfusion.com/downloads/metrostudio

Design Development Mobile

Article on Responsive Design

Callon Campbell [MVP] on March 1, 2013

Good post on Response Design

Enjoy!

References

Blog post:
http://www.kendoui.com/blogs/teamblog/posts/13-01-22/responsive_design_with_twitter_bootstrap.aspx

Six Revisions 25 examples:
http://sixrevisions.com/design-showcase-inspiration/responsive-webdesign-examples/

Database Development

Using SQL Server Data Tools for Connected Database Development

Callon Campbell [MVP] on March 1, 2013

Great post on doing connected database development with SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). Please see my previous post on getting started with SSDT.

Enjoy!

Database Development

Getting Started with SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)

Callon Campbell [MVP] on March 1, 2013

Great post on getting started with SQL Server Data Tools.

Enjoy!

Development Mobile

HTML5: 10 Provocative Predictions For The Future

Callon Campbell [MVP] on March 1, 2013

Good post.

For HTML5 developers and decision makers, the most important technologies right now are HTML, JavaScript, CSS, mobile platforms and devices and evolving HTML platforms (browsers and operating systems). But what does that mean in the real world? It means these 10 things in 2013:

Enjoy!