Robert Maclean05/28/13
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Windows Store app Development snack: XAMLSPY

The above video shows the great XAMLSPY tool which is a massively helpful tool when working with any XAML based application, like a Windows Store app.

Alex Curylo05/28/13
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OmniPresence Open Syncing

So no doubt you read our post noting the fusterclucked state of iCloud syncing, and probably came away with a somewhat dispirited view of the document sync options for the small developer, yes?

Gergo Nagy05/28/13
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Why is Firefox OS a Great Achievement?

Mozilla takes a good step toward mobile web application development. They bring new/old platform which can be a good choice for your HTML5 web application. Firefox OS is here and your web application is ready for it!

Mitch Pronschinske05/27/13
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Dynamically Animating User Interfaces

Creating vivid user interfaces with tasteful animations can both make your applications more appealing and more usable, but the standard A to B style transitions commonly available in SDKs just don't cut it sometimes.

Fabio Radin05/26/13
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Android Native Development Kit Cookbook

The book gives a very detailed and exhaustive description of entry-level, intermediate and advanced techniques that could be used with Android NDK. All chapters, that are more or less independent...

Eric Gregory05/25/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (Memorial Day Weekend Edition)

It’s Memorial Day Weekend in the US, and the Internet’s a little quiet. To tide you over, we've got the latest in quantum imaging and entanglement, programming language rundowns from both JRuby creator Charles Nutter and Middle Earth, the most maddening ninja-related game you'll ever play, and much more.

Brian Hitney05/25/13
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APIMASH and Intro to Game Dev Raleigh

I’m really excited to be hosting a few events in the Microsoft Raleigh office focused on Windows 8 development. The first on revolves around our APIMASH starter kits – a great way to get started building mashup style applications in Windows 8, with templates and examples in both C# and HTML/JS.

Brian Gracely05/24/13
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The Mobilecast - Eps.7 - Mobile Etiquette to Management

This podcast is about mobile etiquette both personally and when doing work. This leads them to talking about codifying some of these rules in mobile policy and then how you need to manage that policy. This leads to talking about some of the legal things businesses need to look out for.

Leigh Shevchik05/24/13
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Mobile Device Fragmentation: It’s Only Going to Get Worse

As a mobile developer, you know you need to consider multiple devices when developing your app. But do you know just how many devices you need to support in order to reach a majority of consumers?

Juhani Lehtimaki05/24/13
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The New Navigation Drawer Design Pattern

In the latest Android design guidelines update Google added a new pattern: Drawer Navigation. The pattern was also covered in the Android Design for UI Developers Google IO talk.

Adam Grocholski05/24/13
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Android to Windows Phone 8: Working with Key-Value Pairs

In Android development, if you have a small collection of key-value pairs that you want to persist from session to session you use the SharedPreferences APIs.

Łukasz Budnik05/23/13
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iOS and Android Push Notifications from Java

For a couple of past weeks I have been working as a Technical Architect in a mobile application for a large bank (or should I say an insurance department of that bank). The application was written in PhoneGap and Sencha Touch. Two platforms were supported: iOS and Android.

Mitch Pronschinske05/23/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 23)

It's time to make Java debugging suck less, and it's also time to start pronouncing "GIF" "jif". Plus, some crucial employability tips and the real difference between "web" and "enterprise" developers.

Eric Gregory05/22/13
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Taking a Look at Hangouts for Android

AndroidCentral takes a look at Hangouts, Android's new replacement for the Google Talk app. What does this tell us about Google's vision for chat?

Alex Curylo05/22/13
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100 Killer App Tools

Here’s a roundup of tools for the developer which’ll almost certainly have something new to you. Read the comments too. There are more mentioned there.