Google Chromecast directly competes with Apple TV. It makes is possible to cast content from your smartphone, tablet or PC/Laptop to your HD TV. This means you can stream online content too such as YouTube, Netflix (if supported in your country) etc. right into your living room. Next, Chander Dhall…
Promoting Dev Skills shouldn't be a problem for great developers, right? Well I can promise you that Luke Clum highlights a few points you probably haven't thought of. His 8 tips on promoting your dev skills is essential for any developer seeking to increase his or her 'street cred'. Uzi…
New Windows 8.1 Features - Get the low-down on what is new in Windows 8.1 and discover some new features that really excite geeks like me. I have been playing with the preview for a while now and I have to say that I am really loving it. Robert Green…
Windows 8.1 with .Net Framework 3.5 - Kunal Chowdhury gives us the low down on how to make it work on a fresh install. Gunnar Peipman talks about Edit and Continue with 64-bit apps being supported in Visual Studio 2013. Lastly, New York get's it's own unique Web domain. Today…
LightSwitch Visual Studio 2013 - Beth Massi talks about some of the new features such as Improved JavaScript IntelliSense, API support for refreshing data, Integration with Team Build and Code Analysis, Improved team development, Intrinsic database management with linked database project, LightSwitch projects work more seamlessly with the IDE, all your…
SkyDrive Pro for iOS, Windows 8 / RT was released by Microsoft on Friday. It looks the same as the standard mobile app, but provides a handy way to access your SkyDrive Pro-based files in Office 365, SharePoint Online, or SharePoint 2013. Speaking of Office 365, have you taken a look…
Welcome to a new week. I hope that you had a better weekend than mine. I was busy bringing my laptop back to life due to a slight case of (assumed) rootkit infection. Nevertheless, I managed to put together The Daily Six Pack on one of the 5 PC's in…
VS Anywhere is a third-party tool for Visual Studio. It helps to increase the collaboration between team members and especially developers. VS Anywhere will also allow knowledge transfer where Developers can setup and join a real-time learning session on-demand. Do you think that great programmers are born, not made? What do…
Windows 8.1 Preview will be with us on June 26th. Some of the new features are included in the lock screen, Start screen, All Apps, desktop, Search, SkyDrive, Snap and Photos experiences. Something tells me that Windows 8.1 will be a real doozy! For those that didn't like Windows 8, why…
DotNet Framework 4.5 was released on August 15th, 2012. It included many new features and is only supported on Windows Vista or later. Microsoft started developing the .NET Framework in the late 1990s. It was originally under the name NGWS or Next Generation Windows Services. By late 2000 the first…