2014 - November/December
In this issue, Dino explains the business layer so even a seven-year-old can understand it! Other featured articles cover Mobile Apps for SharePoint, IndexedDb, HTML5 & jQuery, Git, XNA and Swift
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Manager’s Corner: Teams and Scalability
When your team drastically changes size, you’ll understand Mike’s parallel lessons from writing code.
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Mobile Apps for SharePoint and Office 365: Part 1
In this first installment of his new series, Sahil begins writing an end-to-end mobile infrastructure using some familiar tools.
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Introduction to IndexedDB: The In-Browser Database
Is dealing with databases on a browser your idea of a bad nightmare? Craig implements an in-browser document database called IndexedDB to create, read, update, and delete large sets of records, just like a database on a server.
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Use HTML 5 and jQuery in WebForms
Web Forms aren’t going anywhere. Paul shows us how to use HTML 5 and jQuery to keep ASP.NET Web Forms working smoothly.
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The Mythical Business Layer
Dino explains the business layer so that even a seven-year-old can understand.
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XNA is Dead; Long Live the New XNA, MonoGame
In this article, Chris Williams presents MonoGame as the modern, open-source successor to Microsoft's XNA framework, enabling cross-platform game development beyond Microsoft devices. He details MonoGame's evolution from XNA, its broad platform support, and offers a practical guide for setting up the development environment, creating basic game projects, rendering text and images, handling input, and implementing animations. Through hands-on examples, Williams aims to empower developers—especially indies—to leverage MonoGame’s capabilities for multi-platform game creation, emphasizing starting small and building foundational skills with this versatile framework.
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Introduction to Swift
Whether you’re familiar with programming in Objective-C or not, you’ll learn something interesting as Mohammad takes a look at the new high-level Swift programming language for the iOS framework.
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Managed Coder: On Benchmarking
Ted explores the myth of benchmarking and how to make sure that yours are valid.