wintellect-blogs|Jun 25, 2014

Score Big with WintellectNOW during the FIFA 2014 World Cup

The FIFA World Cup™ is the biggest single-event sporting competition in the world and is contested by the senior men’s national teams from the 208 Member Associations of FIFA. There are 204 entries across six continents competing for 31 available spots. With over 700 million viewers this month-long championship is broadcast in every single country…
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Blogs|Jun 24, 2014

WintellectRAW: Jeffrey Richter

Welcome to WintellectRAW – featurettes about your favorite authors.  Each month we’ll give you a quick glimpse into the life of a WintellectNOW author – how they got their start, some of their hobbies, their favorite projects, and more!   This month we feature Wintellect co-founder, Jeffrey Richter. A Microsoft-proclaimed “Software Legend,” Jeffrey shares with…
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wintellect-blogs|Jun 24, 2014

WintellectNOW Authors on the Road: June Update

What better way to spend your summer than at an industry event?! Over the next two months, we’ll have WintellectNOW authors speaking, working the booth, and attending a handful of fun conferences. If you find yourself at any of the below, please stop by and say “hi.” We’d love to meet you in person!  …
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wintellect-blogs|Jun 23, 2014

WintellectNOW Author Blog Round Up: June

The WintellectNOW “Best Beach Reads 2014” list is here! Check out what our authors have been writing for you over the past 30 days and add them to your summer reading list.  This month, Dwight Goins published a cool Kinect for Windows Version Feature Comparison Chart. If you’re interested in developing for the platform, you’ll…
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Blogs|Jun 19, 2014

Programming the Windows Runtime (WinRT) by Example

In 2011 I heard the first rumors about Windows 8 and knew immediately what my next book would be about. Unlike Designing Silverlight Business Applications that captured years of experience writing Line of Business (LOB) apps in Silverlight, this book would be an introduction to an entirely new platform. My goal was to take what…
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Blogs|Jun 18, 2014

10 Rules Every Software Consultant Should Follow

Understand the business As a software consultant, your sweet spot lies between the business problem and the software implementation (use your imagination for the venn diagram here).  You can be the #1 JavaScript contributor on Github but you won’t succeed as a software consultant unless you also understand the business domain.  Before I ever step…
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wintellect-blogs|Jun 3, 2014

Interviewed on the Hello World Podcast

Shawn Wildermuth has been doing the Hello World Podcast for a while and it’s very interesting to hear about how great developers got started and what they’ve learned along the way. For the June 2nd edition, Shawn interviewed me! You can listen to it here: http://wildermuth.com/hwpod/27_John_Robbins. If you ever wanted to know what being a…
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Blogs|May 31, 2014

Convert a Windows Store App to the Web in Under 10 Minutes

Microsoft held an event called re//build in Atlanta and I had the opportunity to speak about what’s new with WinJS. The event used a lightning talk format so with only 30 minutes to present, I decided to make the presentation itself the demo. I wrote the re//build WinJS Windows Store app by starting with the…
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Blogs|May 29, 2014

An Introduction to Cross-Platform, Cross-Browser WinJs

In case you missed the big announcement, Microsoft has open sourced their Windows Library for JavaScript, otherwise known as WinJS. Many of you may not have noticed this because, like me, you assumed WinJS was just a shim for accessing the Windows Runtime from JavaScript. If this blog were one year older, that would be…
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Blogs|May 23, 2014

Enterprise Typescript

This past Thursday I had the pleasure of presenting for the Linked In .NET Users Group. The topic was TypeScript. My goal was to show how well TypeScript works to solve common problems in the enterprise to tackle it from the perspective of Return on Investment and how it scales teams, improves productivity, increases quality…
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wintellect-blogs|May 13, 2014

WintellectNOW Authors on the Road: May Update

Our authors are everywhere! If you enjoy watching their WintellectNOW videos, why not meet up with them in person?  We have folks speaking, attending, and working booths at a number of events this spring.  If you find yourself at any of the events below, please stop by and say “hi.” We’d love to meet you…
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wintellect-blogs|May 13, 2014

WintellectNOW Author Blog Round Up: May

This past month has just flown by that doesn’t seem to have slowed down our instructors one bit.  Check out what they have been working on for you over the past 30 days.  Rachel Appel is at it again – this time she’s covering cross-platform modern app architecture.  Check out her most recent article entitled…
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