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Back in October 2012, Microsoft launched a new language called TypeScript, a new compile-to-JavaScript language. My initial reaction when I saw the announcement was “not another replacement for JavaScript. Don’t we already have enough JavaScript wannabe’s, like CoffeeScript and Google’s Dart?” But as I examine TypeScript there are elements that I really like about the [...]
The past few weeks I have been collaborating with a client to create a mobile device experience for them. The application itself is pretty basic, but they needed it to be up and running in a short amount of time and they needed it to work on multiple devices. The combination of a very short [...]
When I say that I work on a team that does agile development, some will assume cowboy coding. Nothing could be further from the truth. In a lot of ways, my work has become more structured now than it was when I worked in a waterfall methodology (many years ago). You spend a third to [...]
Windows 8 has officially been released to manufacturing and all of us developer types will get our hands on the final version very soon. I know that there have been some very critical comments of Windows 8, especially critical of the decision to make the new Metro interface the default for desktop users. Those that [...]
With any good BI solution, using the right data and modeling that data correctly is the key to a successful implementation. That old idiom of “garbage in, garbage out” applies to a BI report too. You can find examples of spectacularly bad conclusions drawn from starting with bad data and bad models. Reports are used [...]