Monthly Archives: August 2012

Windows 8 App Development How I Built an “Awesome Chat” application for Windows 8 with Windows Azure Mobile Service (Gaurav Mantri) “In this blog post, I’m going to talk about how I built a Windows 8 application using Windows Azure Mobile Service. Windows Azure Mobile Service is the newest Windows Azure Services that you can [...]

Windows 8 App Development Add cloud to your app with Windows Azure Mobile Services (Windows 8 app developer blog) “Great Windows Store apps are connected. They use live tiles, authenticate users with single sign-on and share data between devices and users. To get all these great benefits of being connected, your app needs to use [...]

Windows 8 App Development Lessons Learned Designing a Windows 8 App (Valentina Ferrari and Christina Seong) “Christina and I are graduate students in Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington. In April we were hired as interns by Blink Interactive, a UX research and design agency in Seattle, to become their resident [...]

Windows 8 Windows 8 productivity: Who moved my cheese? Oh, there it is. (Scott Hanselman) “… People don’t like it when you move their cheese. They are just trying to get through the maze, they have it all under control and then, poof, someone moved their cheese. Now it’s a huge hassle to find it [...]

Windows 8 App Development Why start learning to build for Windows 8 (Lee Stott) “If you have done any reading about Windows 8, one thing all the press is focusing on is Windows 8 offers and unprecedented opportunity to monetize your developer skills. Combining the broad reach of Windows which already exists, a new developer [...]