With the advent of new touch based interfaces, everyone wants to develop touch based applications. The problem is touch applications are very different than traditional mouse and keyboard based applications. One of the most important things to remember with Touch design and Windows 8, is Windows 8 ensures that keyboard and mouse are taken care of for you. This means, you only need to worry about one thing. Touch. And while I would love to write a blog post on “touch” the best way to show you what touch for Windows 8 can provide you, is to have you grab a cup of coffee, sit down, and watch my live presentation on “Design for Touch”.
April 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Building Windows 8 Apps with Blend for Visual Studio
Building Windows 8 applications with Blend for Visual Studio is incredibly easy. Blend provides you with visual design tools that allow you to focus on the front-end design, without having to worry heavily on the business rules of your application. In this presentation I discuss the importance of using the Microsoft Design Principles in order to ensure you build beautiful Windows 8 applications using Blend for Visual Studio.
April 2, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Getting Started with Blend for Visual Studio
I wanted to give you a tour of Blend for Visual Studio so you could understand how you can go from nothing, to an app that is running in Windows 8 Modern UI within 5 minutes using Blend for Visual Studio. The first thing you are going to want to do is run Blend for [...]
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P90X Review
I recently finished a P90X review for some of my friends and family that saw me at the Calgary Tony Horton workout. The reason I am sharing on here is because I see so many IT and Software people that are in desperate need of getting back in shape! It really blows my mind how [...]
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Software Development Top 30 Mistakes
I have been developing software and web applications for nearly 11 years now. Software development has come a long way since the days of Binary, Cobol, etc. What still fascinates me about software development is the same mistakes made before, are still made today. Below are the top 30 Mistakes that are made within the [...]
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