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• Feature Wish List for Amazon Devices

  From Echo devices, Fire tablets, Kindle to Audible: this is a laundry list of all the things I wish these devices do a better job of.

  Nov 24, 2019

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• Feature Wish List for Amazon Devices

  Live Note Nov 24, 2019

• Running .Net Core on AWS Lambda

  Editorial Oct 14, 2016

• Getting Intellisense and syntax highlighting to work on React JSX on VSCode

  Editorial Jan 29, 2016

• Configuring SASS transpiler on the IntelliJ IDEA 14 CE

  Editorial Oct 21, 2015

• Play Framework application layout with custom Java package name

  Editorial Aug 4, 2015

• Playframework 2.4.x keeps throwing "Package does not exist"

  Tumble Jul 27, 2015

• The problem with Apple Music (from a product development perspective)

  Editorial Jun 9, 2015

• UICollectionView with UIKit Dynamics

  Editorial May 9, 2015

• How to debug WatchKit and iPhone Parent App on XCode

  Editorial Apr 14, 2015

• The Magic of the Apple Watch

  Editorial Apr 13, 2015

• XCode timeline editor for keyframe based animation

  Editorial Apr 6, 2015

• Smart phone powered VR goggles

  Editorial Mar 2, 2015

• How Retail Banking should take a few cues from the software industry

  Editorial Jan 30, 2015

• Redeeming iTunes gift card with camera is quite a spectacle

  Editorial Apr 25, 2014

• OK Google Glass

  Tumble Apr 24, 2014

• Cannot sign in to Yammer on iPhone

  Editorial Apr 1, 2014

• The Apple Store iBeacon experience

  Editorial Mar 27, 2014

• Robo-mannequin: Innovation in high street retail/online

  Tumble Jan 18, 2014

• Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday: a review

  Opinion Jan 12, 2014

• How to fix Lenovo ThinkPad Helix (with Dock) issues with Windows 8.1

  Editorial Jan 6, 2014

• Slow download in Dubai, can't download from CDN

  Stuff Oct 28, 2013

• A thought: How would our lives differ when all things are CONNECTED?

  Editorial Feb 12, 2013

• The Windows 8 “Tablet” Experience: a review (1 of 3)

  Editorial Jan 30, 2013

• Everything you need to know to connect a Windows 8 (or any other) laptops to a 5.1 AV receiver surround sound

  Editorial Jan 26, 2013

• Google Service has not been enabled after downgrading to Free account

  Editorial Jan 4, 2013

• Guide to hooking up Plex and Vuze with Hazel for a smooth media center workflow

  Editorial Jan 3, 2013

• Wordpress plugin doesn’t work after changing theme

  Editorial Dec 29, 2012

• Microsoft discontinuing Microsoft Expression

  News Dec 27, 2012

• Backing Up Your Flickr Photo sets: How to bulk download using Bulkr

  Editorial Dec 26, 2012

• IP Address, Username and Password for Du DSL router up on our ceilings

  Uncategorized Oct 13, 2012

• Love the new Microsoft! We think you’ll love it.

  Editorial Jul 17, 2012

• If you don’t go for something big, you’re unfundable

  Editorial Jul 3, 2012

• How to debug WinJS and C# in the same solution

  Editorial May 10, 2012

• WinRT Consumer Preview: Calling C# (CSharp) Async class libraries from Javascript WinJS.Promises using then() clause

  Editorial May 10, 2012

• WinRT: Calling C# (CSharp) class libraries from WinJS Javascript

  Uncategorized May 10, 2012

• Quickstart with Hadoop & Hadoop on Azure

  Editorial May 10, 2012

• Making a Promise: creating your own then() clause for async call with WinJS.Promise

  Editorial May 8, 2012

• Cannot find my Windows 8 Metro app in WACK (Windows App Cert Kit)

  Editorial May 5, 2012

• SkyDrive, Live Mesh, Live Devices (Dropbox and Google Drive)

  Editorial Apr 27, 2012

• Redis coming to Windows! implemented by Microsoft! on GitHub! ..but little “Cloud value”

  News Apr 27, 2012

• what is this jealousy??

  Tumble Apr 22, 2012

• Google Dart & XAML

  Opinion Apr 13, 2012

• 5 Reasons Why I Like Developing for Windows 8

  Editorial Mar 3, 2012

• Unable to load Package.appxmanifest on Visual Studio 2011 Beta

  Editorial Mar 2, 2012

• Visual Studio 11 Beta throwing error ‘The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\WindowsXaml\v1.0\ Microsoft.Windows.UI.Xaml.CSharp.targets" was not found.’

  Editorial Mar 2, 2012

• What will be introduced in Windows 8 Consumer Preview? Hopefully … the Metro theme on the Classic Desktop

  Editorial Feb 21, 2012

• Using MVVMLight on WinRT, Command does not relay properly when the binding is declared in XAML

  Uncategorized Feb 19, 2012

• Missing Computer Management in Windows 8 Developer Preview

  News Feb 19, 2012

• Facebook iOS SDK can't compile on iOS project with ARC

  Editorial Feb 18, 2012

• Can't start WP7's camera when debugging on Visual Studio 2010 & connected to Zune

  Editorial Feb 12, 2012

• Getting the Mango Update on LG E900 Optimus 7

  Editorial Sep 29, 2011

• My attempt to win a .Net Rocks mug

  Tumble Sep 8, 2011

• On Waterfall vs Agile

  Opinion Aug 30, 2011

• Enabling Windows Authentication on Windows 7 + IIS7

  Editorial Aug 30, 2011

• Introducing Boink: the “good enough” security challenge

  News Aug 17, 2011

• .Net WebClient DownloadString screwed up my Unicode non english characters

  Editorial Aug 10, 2011

• Good read/watch on Stuxnet–guaranteed to raise the hair on the back of your neck

  Stuff Jul 25, 2011

• Basic reading accelerometer on Windows Phone 7 with XNA

  Uncategorized Jul 15, 2011

• 3 tips when using IE9 as your main web browser

  Editorial Apr 30, 2011

• Microsoft Web Camp: Creating Cutting Edge Websites for Phones, Slates & Beyond

  EditorialNews Apr 26, 2011

• 10 Best iPhone 4 Cydia Tweaks (2011)

  Editorial Apr 10, 2011

• Alright… who told Google/YouTube that I had a baby?

  Opinion Apr 9, 2011

• Facebook OAuth access_token return HTTP 400 Error Validating Verification Code

  Editorial Mar 24, 2011

• Debugging Azure: VS unable to attach debugger to the IIS work process

  Editorial Mar 20, 2011

• Semantic: Response to Brenden Mulligan’s post on Startup and Project

  Opinion Mar 18, 2011

• On IE9 day#1

  Opinion Mar 15, 2011

• Open Data for the Open Web

  News Mar 7, 2011

• Everything about Windows Azure you were afraid to ask

  News Mar 7, 2011

• Open Data: enabling OData on SQL Azure and DataMarket

  Editorial Mar 6, 2011

• Startup task on a multiple site Azure web role

  Editorial Mar 5, 2011

• Is overloading Azure roles a good idea: multiple website/web apps on a single Role

  Editorial Mar 2, 2011

• Multiple Web Applications on a single Web Role

  Editorial Mar 1, 2011

• If you’re a Dev in Gulf, Win a Windows Phone!

  News Feb 28, 2011

• Dubai Tech-Out: Developing for Windows Phone 7

  Editorial Feb 28, 2011

• CRON job on Azure: Using Scheduled Task on a Web Role to replace Azure Worker Role for background job.

  Editorial Feb 23, 2011

• Azure isn’t IaaS and that’s a good thing

  Opinion Feb 19, 2011

• How to deploy an Azure role from Visual Studio 2010

  Editorial Feb 17, 2011

• failed starting up: Azure role stuck on updating ’¦

  Editorial Feb 17, 2011

• Open Data #2: Data needs to be more open to be useful

  Editorial Feb 8, 2011

• Open Data #1: the next state of computer economy

  Editorial Feb 6, 2011

• Teched Middle East session catalog is out

  News Feb 6, 2011

• Activating free Azure hours from MSDN

  Editorial Feb 6, 2011

• Analysis: Is Bing really stealing Google’s search result?

  Opinion Feb 4, 2011

• XSD.exe throwing out ‘Unable to generate a temporary class (result=1). error CS0030: Cannot convert type’

  Editorial Nov 24, 2010

• 7 things I don’t like about RockMelt

  Opinion Nov 19, 2010

• RockMelt can use Chrome plugins

  Tumble Nov 18, 2010

• RockMelt and Chrome: the Chromium browsers are actually more different than it seems

  Tumble Nov 18, 2010

• Unboxing RockMelt

  News Nov 18, 2010

• Pivotting the confusion: Silverlight PivotViewer, Windows Phone 7 Pivot Control and Microsoft PowerPivot

  Editorial Oct 30, 2010

• 5 tips to avoid catastrophic Demo

  Editorial Oct 21, 2010

• Hosting WCF RESTful Ajax Service inside SharePoint 2010

  Editorial Oct 12, 2010

• Adding custom web.config entry into SharePoint 2010

  Editorial Oct 10, 2010

• MissingMethodException when running unit test on Visual Studio

  Editorial Oct 10, 2010

• Can’t step into/debug Sharepoint 2010 Referenced Projects or Assemblies

  Editorial Oct 10, 2010

• Why the heck Lennon Google Doodle not on HTML5?

  News Oct 8, 2010

• Why Facebook linked accounts doesn’t work with my OpenID provider

  Stuff Oct 8, 2010

• Where is Microsoft.Sharepoint.Portal.SingleSignon.dll in SharePoint 2010?

  Editorial Sep 14, 2010

• Setting up a Development Environment with Sharepoint 2010 Server on Windows 7

  Editorial Sep 13, 2010

• Can’t access public properties of registered User Controls inside a Sharepoint 2010 Visual Web Part

  Editorial Aug 31, 2010

• Azure Appliance: Cloud in a box

  News Aug 29, 2010

• Employer support

  Opinion Jul 6, 2010

• Running Cassandra on Windows: first attempt

  Editorial Jun 23, 2010

• Resources on Apache Cassandra for the .Net devs

  News Jun 22, 2010

• iOS4 or WP7 ’live tile’?

  Opinion Jun 8, 2010

• My thoughts on Facebook privacy issue

  Opinion Jun 2, 2010

• a simple example of the WebFormsMVP Cross Presenter Messaging

  Editorial May 31, 2010

• Model View Presenter on Asp.Net using WebFormsMVP framework

  Editorial May 30, 2010

• What’s eating up my harddrive space?

  Opinion May 27, 2010

• Playing around with Windows Phone 7 SDK CTP April Refresh

  Editorial May 24, 2010

• Why Dropbox is better than Live Mesh

  Opinion May 24, 2010

• Sharepoint 2007 Parser error on updating page layout

  Editorial May 15, 2010

• Asp.Net 4 Getting back control over your Html: Classic HTML form, postback and cross postback

  Editorial Apr 17, 2010

• Declaring Singleton with public and private members in Javascript

  Editorial Apr 14, 2010

• Branch Management Patterns part 3 of 3: Feature Branch

  Editorial Mar 21, 2010

• Reading my subscription on Google Reader Play

  Stuff Mar 11, 2010

• A tease: Agile Architect from Tech Ed Middle East

  News Mar 9, 2010

• Photos from TechEd Middle East part 2

  News Mar 5, 2010

• Photos from TechEd Middle East part 1

  News Mar 4, 2010

• Wrapping up TechEd Middle east with a nice surprise

  News Mar 3, 2010

• Das Hanselman wants a piece of this!

  News Feb 21, 2010

• I’ll be speaking about Domain Driven Approach with EF4 at TechEd 2010

  News Feb 20, 2010

• Microsoft MVP’s ‘Mandi’

  News Feb 9, 2010

• I’ll be speaking

  Uncategorized Feb 8, 2010

• Why I think Apple’s iPad could put a brake on innovation

  Opinion Jan 28, 2010

• Resharper 4.0 Live Template for BDD/TDD with NUnit

  Editorial Jan 27, 2010

• 4 reasons why pushing Agile as a consultant is a hard(er) job

  Opinion Jan 26, 2010

• Agile is not TDD

  Editorial Jan 22, 2010

• The only reason why I would want to be an Architect is to have the street cred

  Opinion Jan 21, 2010

• Larry Ellison and cloud computing

  Opinion Dec 30, 2009

• The best code formatter/syntax highlighter for WLW

  Editorial Dec 4, 2009

• Silverlight 4 webcam feature

  Editorial Dec 3, 2009

• Using a Wordpress blog as your OpenID identity

  Editorial Nov 30, 2009

• SQL Azure CTP - Quick Overview

  Editorial Oct 20, 2009

• Google Wave gets online/offline status and status update

  News Oct 19, 2009

• 10 Features why Asp.Net 4 is better for public website

  Editorial Oct 18, 2009

• Running a WatiN test scenario on all browsers

  Editorial Oct 14, 2009

• David Logan on Tribe Leadership

  Opinion Oct 13, 2009

• Legacy software

  Opinion Oct 8, 2009

• Speculating on Google Wave: is Google really aiming for Http?

  Opinion Oct 7, 2009

• Why use Asp.net MVC?

  Opinion Oct 6, 2009

• Branch Management Pattern part 2 of 3: Development on branch / Stemming

  Editorial Oct 4, 2009

• Google Wave Tutorial: how to create a public wave

  Editorial Oct 4, 2009

• Google Wave: Is this it??? Then you haven't tried public search!

  News Oct 4, 2009

• .Net Podcast for middle east region

  News Oct 1, 2009

• Branch Management Pattern part 1 of 3: Development on trunk

  Editorial Sep 29, 2009

• Open Letter to Facebook: FB should support selective Status update

  Opinion Sep 23, 2009

• Bing's twitter search doesn't honor robots.txt

  News Jul 2, 2009

• What's the difference between Unit Testing and TDD? Cutting Down on Debugging Time

  Editorial Jul 1, 2009

• Why Twitter should not rely on advertising

  Opinion Jun 18, 2009

• no more ask bobo

  Stuff Jun 7, 2009

• Sharing Seesmic Desktop settings across computers

  Editorial May 25, 2009

• Breaking Tweets retract their advertisement policy

  Opinion May 22, 2009

• Testing Asp.Net Applications easily with TypeMock

  Opinion May 19, 2009

• Wolfram Alpha IE8 Accelerator

  Stuff May 16, 2009

• Cloud computing will make coder write more efficient software

  Opinion May 9, 2009

• How Web Role talks to Worker Role in Azure : Queue

  Editorial May 9, 2009

• Entity Framework vote of no confidence in basic terms

  Editorial May 8, 2009

• Would you choose Auto Property OR field on C#?

  Editorial May 8, 2009

• What do you use worker role for in Azure?

  Editorial May 4, 2009

• Agregado for Graffiti CMS Theme

  Stuff Apr 19, 2009

• Facebook vs Twitter: Why facebook will never be twitter

  Opinion Apr 10, 2009

• What does Tweetdeck support for Facebook mean?

  Opinion Apr 9, 2009

• Yes I can/will/already have trust cloud computing

  Stuff Mar 30, 2009

• Why agile always fail within a waterfall structure?

  Stuff Mar 23, 2009

• Why you should NEVER use in-proc session

  Stuff Mar 23, 2009

• Good example of Natural User Interface (NUI)

  Stuff Mar 23, 2009

• a good example of favouring Composition over Inheritance

  Editorial Mar 22, 2009

• Asp.Net MVC without 'The framework' Part 2: a good example of Unit Testing

  Editorial Mar 22, 2009

• Difference between Model-View-Presenter and Model-View-Controller

  Editorial Mar 19, 2009

• Twitter-Bubble: will twitter survive?

  Editorial Mar 18, 2009

• Why isn't my FLV Player showing a buffer indicator?

  Stuff Feb 28, 2009

• Fluent interface and debuggability

  Stuff Feb 7, 2009

• Mocking void method with Rhino mocks

  Stuff Jan 30, 2009

• Running ASP.Net MVC Beta on discountasp.net

  Stuff Jan 23, 2009

• Retreiving Work Items from TFS

  Editorial Jan 23, 2009

• ASP.Net Panel DefaultButton interfering javascript onKeyPress

  Stuff Dec 8, 2008

• Common Resharper Shortcuts

  Stuff Nov 28, 2008

• Visual Studio: Show active file in solution explorer

  Stuff Nov 26, 2008

• The best comparison tool and VS2008 integration

  Editorial Nov 26, 2008

• Testing web application against multiple browsers version

  Stuff Nov 25, 2008

• UX driven development

  Stuff Nov 24, 2008

• Accessing xml as objects in .Net

  Stuff Nov 23, 2008

• Where does 'legacy code' comes from?

  Stuff Nov 23, 2008

• Automated testing IS a development tool

  Stuff Nov 23, 2008

• Details management

  Stuff Nov 22, 2008

• Forcing firmware upgrade on Nokia N80

  Stuff Nov 8, 2008

• Installing Graffiti CMS at DiscountASP.NET

  Stuff Nov 4, 2008

• NOT AT PDC?

  Stuff Oct 28, 2008

• Getting WatiN to work with Firefox

  Editorial Oct 8, 2008

• 3 managers managing 3 developers

  Editorial Oct 8, 2008

• Checking if stringbuilder is empty

  Editorial Oct 7, 2008

• Was Plato a programmer?

  Editorial Oct 7, 2008

• why public humiliation doesn't work?

  Editorial Oct 6, 2008

• Converting NUnit Visual Studio project to VSTS Test project

  Editorial Oct 5, 2008

• Javascript debugging in Visual Studio

  Editorial Sep 28, 2008

• Replacing notepad in Windows Server 2003

  Editorial Aug 31, 2008

• Running svnserve as a windows service: long filename problem

  Editorial Aug 29, 2008

• In Dubai

  Stuff Aug 29, 2008

• Expressing Flags using Enum

  Editorial Jul 14, 2008

• Always work with Version Control

  Editorial Jul 6, 2008

• Who's doing what testing? Testers vs. Developers

  Editorial Jun 28, 2008

• Citcon ANZ 2008 in Melbourne

  Stuff Jun 28, 2008

• The best way expressing a simple criteria: Predicate Generic Delegate

  Editorial Jun 17, 2008

• A good example of Abstract class vs. Interface

  Editorial Jun 16, 2008

• Why I would never write my own DAL (again)

  Editorial Jun 12, 2008

• ASP.Net MVC without using 'The Framework' part 1

  Editorial Jun 11, 2008