video|Mar 9, 2015

Interview with John Garland

John Robbins talks to Wintellect’s own John Garland about moving customers to Azure Platform-as-a-Service, getting started with mobile services, and Microsoft’s recent radical changes in direction. John is a Senior Consultant at Wintellect and is the author of the book Windows Store Applications Succinctly. Prior to consulting, he spent much of his career working on…
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missing-export|Mar 6, 2015

ng-whoa! Top 3 takeaways from ng-conf Day 1

ng-whoa! ng-conf, Day 1 Yesterday was a pretty amazing lead up to the first official day of the conference. It certainly didn’t disappoint, what with all surprises the organizers put into place. However, today everyone was pretty eager to hear the opening talk from Brad Green and Igor Minar about both the current state of…
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javascript|Mar 5, 2015

What Javascript Framework should you be using?

What Javascript Framework should you be using? This seems to be the question everybody is asking … and everybody seems to have a different answer. I’m here at ng-conf 2015. Is AngularJS the answer? Angular has a particular opinion about how to build a Javascript application. But other popular alternatives exist. Ember.js prescribes a set of…
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wintellect-blogs|Mar 5, 2015

ng-conf 2015 – Office Apps Hack-a-thon

The night before ng-conf 2015 started, there were a number of lightning talks and hack-night activities. You might be surprised to see Microsoft as part of the mix. With the lure of several Xbox Ones to give away, there ended up being 11 teams competing for the prizes. Josh Carroll and I represented “Team Wintellect”.…
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Blogs|Mar 4, 2015

ng-init @ ng-conf 2015

ng-conf: Day 0 It’s only the first day at ng-conf 2015 but I am already pretty pumped about the next few days. There are of course going to be some cool things going on tonight even before the conference gets started. For instance there is a pretty interesting “Building Microsoft Office Apps with AngularJS Hackathon”…
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missing-export|Mar 4, 2015

Is Microsoft Trying to Take Over Android?

Recent announcements from Mobile World Congress show that Samsung will preload Microsoft’s cloud services such as OneDrive and Microsoft Office apps on their new flagship Galaxy S6 phones.  Is this the beginning of a bigger move by Microsoft? Rumors have swirled for several weeks but earlier this week at Mobile World Congress confirmation has come…
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video|Mar 3, 2015

Interview with Rob Tiffany

In this interview, Wintellect’s John Robbins talks to Rob Tiffany about the IoT Hype Cycle, where Big Data really comes from, and how to use the power of the Internet of Things to track powdered donuts. Rob has spent most of his career as an entrepreneur, executive, architect, developer, strategist, and the writer of bestselling…
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Blogs|Mar 2, 2015

Responding to Orientation Changes in Xamarin Forms

Last week, I published the first in a series of articles on building cross-platform mobile apps with Visual Studio 2015 and Xamarin Forms. In it, I presented an RPN calculator app that works on Windows Phone, Android, and iOS. One subject I didn’t address in that article was how to respond to orientation changes in…
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Editorial|Feb 26, 2015

Top 5 AngularJS Frustrations

AngularJS may be the latest JavaScript framework darling of the web world, but like all technologies it comes with its share of frustrations. AngularJS has exploded onto the web world with no small help from Google such that its hard to imagine doing a web based application without giving it at least a passing consideration.…
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c|Feb 24, 2015

Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 Overview: Big Features and Hidden Gems

The latest Community Technology Preview of Visual Studio 2015 contains a dizzying array of changes, some of which include whole new features as well as several harder-to-see bits of awesomeness. Microsoft unleashed a whirlwind of new capabilities to the public at large with CTP 6 for Visual Studio 2015 as well as the first CTP…
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