Microsoft Releases MSBuild as Open Source on GitHub
Microsoft has announced the availability of the the MSBuild tool source code on GitHub as part of their dotnetConf online virtual conference. Microsoft has added another key tool to their .NET Foundation Open Source library with the release of MSBuild on GitHub. MSBuild is the build system used by Visual Studio, TFS, and Visual Studio…
Interview with John Petersen
In this interview John Petersen talks to John Robbins about the importance of copyright to software developers, how Visual Studio Online is different from TFS, and how half-baked frameworks are taking their toll on developers. John Petersen has been developing software for over 20 years. It all started when, as a staff accountant, he was…
Which $17,000 Watch Would You Buy?
And you’d still have enough left to buy a nice LG G Watch R!
Adding gulp to Visual Studio Online Builds
At one of our Code in the Cloud camps someone asked me how they could integrate front-end build tasks in the Visual Studio Online (VSO) build process. Lately we’ve been adding great support for gulp/grunt/bower into our Visual Studio IDE (check out this post from Scott Hanselman to learn more). But I have to admit…
Microsoft Releases Application Insights SDK for Java
Microsoft is extending the features of their Application Insights service to Java applications with a new SDK. It seems each week holds a new release that demonstrates the further opening of the Microsoft developer landscape to previously uncharted territories. This week is no exception as Microsoft’s ALM Blog has announced a new Java SDK for the…
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…
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…
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”…
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…
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…
