I’m extremely privileged to be presenting at this years Progressive .Net Tutorials conference by Skillsmatter. I’ll be delivering a 4 hour tutorial on HTML5 and the key considerations for .Net developers. Here’s the session outline: So HTML5… What is all the fuss about? It seems all the major vendors are actually in agreement on something. [...]
Continue readingOn the whole I think the app store/marketplace/play store(?) approach to software delivery is an improved way of obtaining new software for users. It provides a centralised location which is perhaps more in line with the real world shopping experience (depending on how far you like to stretch your metaphors). Currently, users are warned to [...]
Continue readingJust copied @wandering_minds and wiped my follow list wanderingminds.info/bad-smells-bro… Mainly to clear out dead accounts. Now to start over again… — Dan Thomas (@DannyT) April 28, 2012 I was bored and feeling rebellious so I thought I’d reset my twitter followings and start from scratch. It’s a good opportunity to clear out any dead accounts [...]
Continue readingSince stripping back the blog theme to basics, I’ve been toying with whether or not to re-introduce some of the elements previously available. Namely Monthly archive links, Category links and Links links (as in links to other sites). My thoughts so far had been “I’m sure no one ever used them so they were just [...]
Continue readingWe’ve just put a short demo video of some experiments we’ve been doing with the recent Kinect for Windows SDK. Check it out on the Moov2 Blog: Microsoft Kinect SDK Development
Continue readingA few months ago I decided to step back off Twitter a bit and focus on blogging more. This has worked and I’ve increased the amount I’ve been blogging significantly. I find writing has gotten easier as a result and the traffic to my site has increased also. However, without impacting my blog momentum I’ve [...]
Continue readingI always wanted to write a “Top n somethings” post and it just so happened I found myself compiling a list today, so here it is. The title is also a bit of a fib, I only came up with a top 9 so far, but who uses “Top 9″? I will add #10 in [...]
Continue readingI’m not the biggest fan of the term “Enterprise” as it has underlying connotations to mean “expensive”. However, it is also a commonly used term in large organisations to refer to closed-audience business solutions. As such, we have recently posted some thoughts on the Moov2 blog about whether HTML5 is suitable for such “enterprise application [...]
Continue readingWe’ve just released our .Net MVC Boilerplate project. It’s a mashup of all the cool stuff we’ve been playing with lately including: ASP.Net MVC (obviously) MongoDB Simple.Data HTML5Boilerplate LessCSS Modernizr If you’re a .net developer familiar with MVC I strongly recommend having a play around with this project. Simply throw the following code at your [...]
Continue readingI just spent the past few hours reinstalling my laptop in an attempt to squeeze a little more life out of it. Having done this on a near annual basis for the past too many years I thought I’d document the process for future reference and in case it’s of use to anyone else. I [...]
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