Windows Runtime via C# Book and Windows Phone 8.1
My Windows Runtime via C# book originally targeted developers building Windows Store. However, with the introduction of Visual Studio’s universal apps, the book is now applicable to Windows Phone 8.1 […]
Dependency Injection Explained via JavaScript
When learning a new framework I often find it is useful to examine the source, use the framework, then go into a separate project and build the functionality from scratch […]
WintellectRAW: Jeffrey Richter
Welcome to WintellectRAW – featurettes about your favorite authors. Each month we’ll give you a quick glimpse into the life of a WintellectNOW author – how they got their start, […]
Programming the Windows Runtime (WinRT) by Example
In 2011 I heard the first rumors about Windows 8 and knew immediately what my next book would be about. Unlike Designing Silverlight Business Applications that captured years of experience […]
10 Rules Every Software Consultant Should Follow
Understand the business As a software consultant, your sweet spot lies between the business problem and the software implementation (use your imagination for the venn diagram here). You can be […]
Convert a Windows Store App to the Web in Under 10 Minutes
Microsoft held an event called re//build in Atlanta and I had the opportunity to speak about what’s new with WinJS. The event used a lightning talk format so with only […]
An Introduction to Cross-Platform, Cross-Browser WinJs
In case you missed the big announcement, Microsoft has open sourced their Windows Library for JavaScript, otherwise known as WinJS. Many of you may not have noticed this because, like […]
Enterprise Typescript
This past Thursday I had the pleasure of presenting for the Linked In .NET Users Group. The topic was TypeScript. My goal was to show how well TypeScript works to […]
Here Come the .NET Containers
So I was watching Twitter this morning in anticipation of interesting news from TechEd 2014. TechEd isn’t traditionally known as the place where Microsoft drops a lot of big, bold […]