Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Pinning Useful and Obscure Stuff to the Windows 8 Start Menu - Scott Hanselman

Pinning Useful and Obscure Stuff to the Windows 8 Start Menu - Scott Hanselman


Announcing Windows Azure Mobile Services - ScottGu's Blog

Announcing Windows Azure Mobile Services - ScottGu's Blog


"Windows Azure Mobile Services makes it incredibly easy to connect a scalable cloud backend to your client and mobile applications.  It allows you to easily store structured data in the cloud that can span both devices and users, integrate it with user authentication, as well as send out updates to clients via push notifications."

JavaScript Data Binding with AngularJS

JavaScript Data Binding with AngularJS Part I – Getting Started - Dan Wahlin's WebLog

Part II

Windows 8 HTML5 WinRT App: RSS reader in 30min

Windows 8 HTML5 WinRT App: How to create a small RSS reader in 30min (part 1/2) - David Rousset - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

Windows 8 Start Screen: Group & Manage App Tiles

How To Resize, Group & Manage App Tiles In Windows 8 Start Screen


"You can also move apps into different columns, with noticeable space between adjacent columns. Just drag an app’s tile horizontally and you will see a gray bar appear in the direction you are dragging it. Drop the tile on that gray bar and it will get a column of its own, into which other tiles can then be added the same way to make a group of apps."

Internet Domains Expanding (for no good reason?)

ICANN's Boondoggle - MIT Technology Review

"There is no general shortage of Web addresses. If there were, we might have seen businesses flocking to other new domains ICANN has already introduced over the past decade

What amazing new benefits will all this spending bring to consumers? None whatsoever, at least in the eyes of venture investor Esther Dyson, who served as chair of ICANN from its inception in 1998 until 2000. Dyson once supported the idea of allowing companies to create arbitrary top-level domains, but she says she came to believe that the change would be unnecessary and confusing for the public. "