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- An Overview of Go in Five Examples - Chapter 1
Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts
Release Date: Monday, April 08, 2013
Quick ID: 1304043
By Mark Summerfield, Published May 4, 2012 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of the Developer's Library series. Copyright 2012
Book ISBN-10: 0-321-77463-9 ISBN-13: 978-0-321-77463-7.
Mark Summerfield provides a series of five explained examples of the Go programming language. Although the examples are tiny, each of them (apart from "hello who?") does something useful, and between them they provide a rapid overview of Go's key features and some of its key packages.
- The Easiest Path to Windows 8: HTML + CSS + JavaScript
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2013 Mar/Apr
Release Date: Wednesday, February 06, 2013
Quick ID: 1304051
Sometimes it happens that a new version of an operating system introduces a new type of application completely incompatible with older versions of the same system. The last time it happened I think it was with Windows 95. More than 15 years later, Windows 8 comes with support for a completely new segment of applications named Windows Store apps.
- The Skeptical Coder: Fixing Windows 8 and WinRT
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2013 Mar/Apr
Release Date: Wednesday, February 06, 2013
Quick ID: 1304091
Here’s a bit of news for you: Despite all the criticism and despite all the naysayers, Windows 8 is actually a very good operating system. Improvements to the desktop are good and welcome. A lot of the underlying tech for WinRT is quite impressive. Microsoft should be applauded for their willingness to invent and change. However, because of a long list of puzzling decisions, and due to a lack of polish and packaging, Windows 8 just doesn’t add up to a good product that serves all the market segments it aims to serve. That’s a tall order, of course, but anything less has to be seen as a dramatic failure for any version of the Windows operating system.
- A Windows 8 Look and Feel for WPF, Part 2
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2013 Jan/Feb
Release Date: Monday, December 10, 2012
Quick ID: 1301031
In part 1 of this article, you learned how to create a Windows 8 look and feel for your WPF applications. You were shown a high-level overview of the various components that made up the shell for navigating. In part 2 of this article you will learn to create a WPF Button user control, a Message Box you can style, and a simple Message Broker System. All of these components are used to create the “Windows 8 Style” WPF shell you learned about in part 1.
- Intro to Metro
Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 Jul/Aug
Release Date: Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Quick ID: 1208061
Ten years after the release of the .NET Framework, Microsoft is stirring the pot again with a new development platform that set’s to focus your talents on what everyone is betting is the next big thing, mobile devices; specifically in this case, tablets. The Windows Runtime, or WinRT, is the foundation for the development of applications designed to target Windows 8-driven touch-enabled devices, but what does that mean for .NET developers and their existing skill sets?
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