Author Archives: dmd0822

Here we go again……Yet Another New England Give Camp

Posted on April 27, 2013

It  is time for the fourth annual New England Give Camp .  Give Camp is a weekend long event where technology professional donate their time to help non-profit organizations fill a technology need.  This can range from sprucing up a … Continue reading →

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Modern Enterprise Applications – Native Application vs. Mobile Web

Posted on February 19, 2013

In my recent post, A Mobile Web Strategy, I covered some of the architectural decisions that go into build a mobile website.  I glazed over the process of choosing whether to a mobile web application or build a native application. … Continue reading →

Posted in HTML5, Mobile, Modern Application, Software Architecture, UX, Windows 8, WP7, WP8 | 1 Comment

The Cost of Side-Loading on Windows 8

Posted on January 19, 2013

Recently, Rocky Lhotka wrote a blog post call Cost to enable side-loading on a Windows 8 device. In this post he breaks down the cost to side load a Modern UI Application (formally known as Metro) on to a Windows … Continue reading →

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Modern Enterprise Applications – A Mobile Web Strategy

Posted on January 8, 2013

In my last post, Modern Enterprise Applications, I started to look at what it takes to build a modern enterprise application.  Technological advances have added complexities to building enterprise application.  The expectations of enterprise users has changed. They expect to … Continue reading →

Posted in HTML5, Modern Applicaiton, Silverlight, Software Architecture, User Experience, Windows 8, WP8 | 4 Comments

Modern Enterprise Applications

Posted on January 4, 2013

Each day technology advances, along the way the definition of an enterprise application has changed.  In the olden days enterprise applications would be installed on a users machine with possibly some backend services for aggregating data. These applications had to … Continue reading →

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2012 in review

Posted on January 4, 2013

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 17,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this … Continue reading →

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My Thought on Windows 8–A User’s Perspective

Posted on December 17, 2012

Recently there has been a lot of different reviews for Windows 8. Some of them good some of them bad. Dr. Jacob Nielsen, a user experience expert, wrote an article providing his insights into Microsoft’s new operating system.  The article … Continue reading →

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Controlling The DataTemplate

Posted on November 12, 2012

Windows 8 has now shipped and developers are busy building Windows Store Applications (bad name).  Developers who have experience working with Xaml have expectations on how Xaml should behave. The other day I was trying to do something I have … Continue reading →

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Boston Code Camp 18

Posted on October 20, 2012

Updated: Here is a link to a video that shows the new SCCM features for supporting Windows 8 that are available in the SP1 Today I presented ‘Reimagining the Enterprise with Windows 8’ at Boston Code Camp 18.  I talked … Continue reading →

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Simulating A Tab Control in a Windows 8 Application–Take 2

Posted on October 15, 2012

In my previous post on Simulating a Tab Control, I used radio buttons and a FlipView control to simulate a tab control.  A commenter pointed out that there were no animation when changing FlipViewItems if you switch items by setting … Continue reading →

Posted in Metro, Mobile, User Experience, UX, Windows 8, WinRT | 17 Comments