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
The Fabrikam Shipping demo shown at TechEd 2010 has been updated to showcase a cloud-based subscription model. As announced by Vittorio, “FabrikamShipping SaaS is a complete subscription based solution running on the Windows Azure platform and publicly available thru www.fabrikamshipping.com. It offers a web-based customer onboarding UI, which anybody can use for creating test subscriptions... read more
It’s time to start a new Web client application. Do you find yourself searching for a past project that had your favorite architecture and patterns to use as a starting point? Stop searching, and start using, the Web Client Software Factory. By using the software factory, architects and developers can focus their efforts on business... read more
Wouldn’t it be cool if you took advantage of decision engine capabilities of Bing within your application? Yes, it would. This Web Application Toolkit shows how to take advantage of the Bing API to add search capabilities to your Web site, leveraging the various search results that the Bing API provides, including Web content, images,... read more
“Where are my keys?” “Have you seen my homework?” “What’s for dinner?” If only your home had an easily accessible FAQ list. Maybe your home doesn’t have one, but there’s not excuse for your application not to. The Web Application Toolkit for FAQs provides a reusable set of assets, like ASP.NET pages, data access code,... read more
Who? What? When? Your users will easily answer that last question when you incorporate calendaring into your application. The Web Application Toolkit for Calendars provides a standards-based service that can be reused in your own Web application to expose calendaring and events information for different users, using different data formats (iCalendar, XML, JSON). This service... read more