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  • Windows Edge & Edge for Android… 1 bug

    Microsoft released this year a new app for the Android platform: Edge for Android. It’s a browser meant to replace the Chrome app you use on your mobile platform. Other than the looks, it has one great power – it can sync your favorites from your Windows machine to your Android device. It’s a great Read more

  • Hopes for Windows RS6 (spring 2019)

    Every now and then I examine the tools I work with, the brands I use and how I work… To me, phones are… still phones. I love them dearly with all their apps and potential, but since I spend 8-10 hours a day with a computer, I don’t need another 5 inch screen on my Read more

  • Azure CosmosDB Pricing Intricacies

    The Azure CosmosDB system has the potential to be a great storage layer for your solution. It automatically scales to maintain performances by splitting the data into partitions. It can geo-replicate in order to minimize data transfer latencies and has multiple consistency models to suit your different needs. But… In CosmosDB you pay for two Read more

  • VS Code Addins

    A long time ago, I was working with companies helping them create add-ons for Visual Studio. This was NOT an easy task. We had to write code, implement COM interfaces, figure out registration, packaging, development instances of VS… It was CRAZY! Now a new beast is in town, Visual Studio Code. It is a code Read more

  • Microsoft .net Orleans

    The Microsoft Orleans project (http://dotnet.github.io/orleans/) is a .NET framework for building systems on an Actor Model paradigm. A typical transactional system receives a command and executes it. Executing it usually means fetching data from a database, modifying it and then saving it. The reason I was interested in Orleans for To-Do.Studio was that each action Read more

  • Web Push Notifications

    As time goes by, the web becomes more and more powerful. It’s been around for a while, but I think that with Chrome and Edge finally supporting PWA apps (and native apps starting to become mobile web apps), it is time to embrace this technology. It is time to create web pages that can push Read more