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  • Windows Phone 8.1 thoughts

    Well, someone upgrade my phone to the upcoming version of Windows Phone 8.1 using the developer preview program (read about it here) and I must say that I like what I see. As I am from Canada, I do not yet have access to Cortana, but I guess that I will play with that whenever… Read more

  • Web development with visual studio and bower

    Visual Studio is a great tool for programming windows applications. It is also a very good tool when creating web sites using the asp.net technology. Lately, I find it has become a great tool for creating serverless (ajax based) web sites. It was always easy to create an empty web site, and just add html… Read more

  • wanted : speaker idol

    As one of the organizers of the DotNetMontreal user group in Montreal, I would like to throw you guys a challenge : Be one of the candidates at our Speaker Idol event which will wrap up the year on June 16th. You will present for 10 minutes on a subject of your choice and our panel of… Read more

  • Visual Studio for EVERYTHING

    Wow, today is a big day because a few things were released… The first piece of news is that Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 has been finalized and is available to download, it brings a bunch of new features including : TypeScript 1.0 Universal Apps (for Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1, in XAML in HTML)… Read more

  • Don`t always say yes to SQL

    I did a quick presentation today to on why do way say yes to using SQL in a project, and what are the alternatives. It was a part of our annuel “Saturday Architecture” that was organised as part of the DotNetMontrealuser group. That implied a high level view of what is NoSQL, and how we can… Read more

  • WAT- Web Application Template

    A couple of weeks ago, I had a discussion with a colleague on different ways to bring html based applications to apps. If you are not doing html based technologies I would invest time into learning the xamarin toolchain, as it allows you to reuse .net code on different platforms through a cross-compiling process but… Read more