From the Guardian (based on this IDC Study): At 487bn gigabytes (GB), if the world’s rapidly expanding digital content were printed and bound into books it would form a stack that would stretch from Earth to Pluto 10 times. There’s no question technology is evolving at a rapid pace and top developers (i.e. those that... read more
Last week a group of Southies converged in Las Vegas to support several deliverables for both MIX 11 and NAB. Held at the Las Vegas Convention Center, NAB draws more than 90,000+ media and entertainment professionals from over 150 countries. The Microsoft NAB booth was impressive as always, and as an IIS Media Services Partner,... read more
You’ve used Orchard to easily create your product site and now you want to add commerce features. The Checkout by Amazon module contains several components that allow you to integrate checkout and shopping cart capabilities to your Orchard CMS Website. The module works with any content type that has a Title, Price, Image, Description and... read more
You have a great set of products and now a beautiful commerce site drawing significant traffic. How will you let your interested customers make purchases in an easy, familiar, and trusted manner? As demonstrated by Drew Robbins in today’s MIX 11 keynote, the Amazon Checkout Helper for WebMatrix makes it simple to integrate features such... read more
Prism is intended for software developers building WPF or Silverlight applications that typically feature multiple screens, rich user interaction and data visualization, and that embody significant presentation and business logic. Prism helps you to design and build flexible and maintainable WPF and Silverlight applications by using design patterns that support important architectural design principles, such... read more
You’re pretty confident about your web development abilities and feel you can tackle any web related challenge that comes along. But maybe you’ve been spending too much time on the server side. What’s your knowledge of jQuery? Not really strong on that one. OData? What’s that O for? DotNetNuke? Never heard of it. Uh oh…... read more
The last couple of days I have been working on a MMC spike that leverage dependency injection and some kind of presentation pattern (in this case MVP), to search for ways to make MMC applications more testable. The scenario I chose for the spike was having a plug-in that could connect/disconnect network adapters through a... read more
The company word has come down: “Let’s mobilize!” Meaning it’s now your job to figure out how to expand your applications into the mobile phone space. The new Windows Phone 7 devices provide a rich user experience and the ability to easily connect to your application services. But where do you start? The Windows Phone... read more
I have seen many questions, both in the Codeplex (here) and StackOverflow forums (here), asking how to load modules that were packaged for remote module loading in a Silverlight out of browser application. I created this sample a couple of months ago, and I thought might be useful for others. Here you can download the... read more
Microsoft’s Training Courses contain free technical training on emerging Microsoft products and technologies: each course includes a set of videos, hands-on labs, and source code samples to get you up-to-speed quickly. These Training Courses, formerly available in Channel 9, are now online at MSDN. This is the first step to converge all technical resources in... read more