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Monthly archive March, 2012

How to find if your Compuer is a boy or a Girl in your Windows PC ?

Here's an interesting blog post that helps you to find if your Computer is a boy or a Girl ... Although , its a pretty old one , wanted to share it here :) There are 2 ways to find this . 1. Open Speech Recognition in your Windows 7 Control Panel and Read More →

What’s your favourite Programming tool ?

During the Great Indian Developer Summit ( GIDS ) every year , Saltmarch Media honors and awards technologies , frameworks , platforms , toolc etc that makes the developers life easier . The voting to pick the winners in each categories has started and you could vote and also possibly see Read More →

Webinar – Introduction to Unit Testing

Typemock is organising a webinar on the topic "Introduction to Unit Testing" on April 4 , 2012 from 7.30 PM to 8.30 PM ( Indian Standard Time). Software testing isn’t just a task for QA. In order to prevent bugs and release quality code to market, you also need developer testing, Read More →

Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) Workshop Video Tutorials

Below are links to the videos that lets the developers know more about Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) and Claims-Based Identity . Its a series of videos titled "WIF Workshop 1...10" . The videos were posted by Vittorio Bertocci at Channel 9 long time back but is definitely a good one to Read More →

TRIGGER – Cross Platform framework for Android and iOS

Just came across this Development Platform for iOS and Android and hence wanted to share them here. TRIGGER is a Cross Platform app framework to build iOS , Android and Web Apps using HTML5. TRIGGER , the name sounds very powerful isn't it ? Some of the features of TRIGGER includes

Telerik Sample Apps, Resources and Giveaways for Windows Phone Developers

The RadControls for Windows Phone is simple to use and provides rich set of functionalities to develop windows phone App easily. You can download the trial version of RadControls for Windows Phone here If you want to win a copy of the RadControls for Windows Phone , Check Read More →

Microsoft Design case study: iPad to Windows 8 Metro style app

Microsoft in its Windows Developer Center has posted a design case study documentation that compares iPad App development with Windows 8 Metro style app development. The Design case study documentation is more of a design comparision of iPad and Windows 8 Metro style app showing hoe iPas based photo journal app Read More →

Webinar – DotNetNuke Explained: Basic Installation

DotnetNuke is organising a webinar on the topic "DotNetNuke Explained: Basic Installation" on March 27,2012 from 9 am - 10 am (PDT) . This webinar will be hosted by Chris Hammond , Director of Training Programs, DotNetNuke Corporation and will help you to understand the prerequisites for DotNetNuke and how one Read More →

Webinar – .NET Development in RAD Studio with Embarcadero Prism

Embarcadero is organising a webinar on the topic .NET Development in RAD Studio with Embarcadero Prism on March 28 , 2012 at 6:00am PDT / 9:00am EDT / 2:00pm CET / 1300 GMT. Embarcadero Prism is part of RAD Studio provides the Object Pascal programming language and IDE for .NET and Read More →

How to add My Computer to the Start Screen in Windows 8 Consumer Preview ?

If you want to add My Computer to the Start Screen (Metro UI) in Windows 8 Consumer Preview . You can do that by pinning it to the start screen . To Pin My Computer to the Start Screen in Windows 8 , follow the below steps 1. From the Windows 8 Read More →

Google Play

Google's Android Market has changed its name. Its new name being Google Play. Many experts believe their re-branding is due to the fact that the previous market place did not offer Android users a complete solution or 'ecosystem'. Whilst preaching the virtues of the Android OS at Read More →

Robotics Developer Studio 4 and Kinect Follow Me Robot

Few days back , Microsoft had released Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 which is now available for download from the Microsoft Robotics website. Apart from fixing number of issues in the Robotics Developer Studio 4 , the team also have updated Robotics Developer Studio 4 to work with the Read More →

Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Start Screen

I just started using the Windows 8 Consumer Preview version and in this blog posts and in the next few blog posts, I will share my experiences and the features of Windows 8 that are purely non-developer related one’s. After that, I will cover the developer related articles on Windows Read More →

Webinar – How to Get QA Off Your Back with Agile Development Practices‏

Typemock is hosting a vendor-neutral webinar next week on how to get QA off your back with Agile development practices. The webinar will be on Wednesday, March 14 at 8:00 AM Pacific US Time and 8:30 PM in India Sign up here: http://www.typemock.com/agile-practices-get-qa-off-your-back. QA getting on your team’s back because of bugs Read More →

When does Windows 8 Consumer Preview Expires ?

Do you want to know when your Windows 8 Consumer Preview expires ? Here's a simple trick to find it . 1. Press Windows Key + R to open the command prompt . 2. Type winver and press enter key. 3. This will display a window that shows the information of your Windows 8 Read More →

Windows 8 Consumer Preview license or Serial key

Few days back, Microsoft had released the Windows 8 Consumer preview which can be downloaded from Microsoft's Download Center.

I just got the Windows 8 Consumer Preview installed on one of the Virtual Machine (VM).

During the installation of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, you will be asked to Read More →

Nightfall and Starlight Panoramic for Windows 8

Yesterday , Microsoft had made the Windows 8 Consumer Preview available for download . Now , a new Windows 8 Theme called "Nightfall and Starlight Panoramic Theme" is updated in the Windows Personalization gallery. Nightfall and Starlight Panoramic Theme for Windows 8 is designed to extend seamlessly across dual monitors Read More →

Webinar – Create mobile web apps and native apps for iOS, Android, and more with RAD Studio XE2

Embarcadero is organising a webinar on the topic "Create mobile web apps and native apps for iOS, Android, and more with RAD Studio XE2" on March 7 , 2012 at 18.30 (Mumbai) time. In this session , the presenters Andreano Lanusse, Anders Ohlsson, and Al Mannarino will share how developers can Read More →
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