Problem Recently I was told that in near future I might start working on a project using PhoneGap to create a pilot application for iOS and possibly later use it for other mobile platforms. I have been working with HTML/JavaScript/CSS stack for quiet a while but I had no experience with mobile development in general and toolset that PhoneGap provides ......

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Preamble Microsoft’s first introduction of upcoming Windows 8 spurred lots of discussions among developers. The most noticeable part of the demonstrations at D9 conference and Computex show, as well as on YouTube, is, of course, the new touch-centric UI. So why is it controversial among developers? Let’s take a look at Microsoft’s press release: Today, ......

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You probably have already visited Channel 9, and if you have not I would recommend to definitely check it out. There are literally thousands of videos about development using Microsoft technologies (and more). You can watch the videos on the site using Silverlight player or you can use links on each video page for downloading. This usually works fine ......

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Has it ever happened to you that you are sitting with your laptop and need to do something with a computer on your local network and it turns out that computer is in a sleep mode and you have to walk to it and move the mouse or press some key to wake it up and then come back to your laptop to do what you initially wanted to do with it? Indeed, if you ......

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This is going to be my first blog post. I'm not going to post anything particularly meaningful this time, the intent is just to kick off blogging. Hopefully, I will be posting on a regular basis. Lately I have been interested in WP7 development and as Microsoft is approaching the release date for their phones I am expecting Microsoft to be extremely ......

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