Bradley L. Jones

Microsoft has announced the editions for Windows 8. I was just reading one of the newsletters I receive and saw the following three headlines one after the other: Microsoft: Three editions of Windows 8 to be released For Windows 8, Microsoft cuts product lineup to two editions Microsoft makes Windows 8 official, will have four […]

With Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft started the trend of releasing Visual Studio Ultimate Feature Packs. With the upcoming release of Visual Studio 11, Microsoft intends to continue this trend. Today, Microsoft’s Jason Zander announced this at the DevConnections conference in Las Vegas. Brian Harry, also from Microsoft, announced similar information at VSLive! at the same […]

Gartner predicts that by 2013, “Cloud computing will grow to 20% or more of the total IT budget. As a developer, where do your Cloud skills current stand? Have you built your first application yet? Have you even taken thirty minutes to follow one of the walkthroughs that are available? We’ve produced quite a bit […]

Today it arrives. It is the next milestone for the next Windows operating system as well as the next version of the Microsoft tools and web platform to help you get more out of your development efforts. With Visual Studio 11, Microsoft is continuing to expand on the concepts around team and enterprise development. The […]

A Windows 8 Developer Preview was released several months ago and an updated preview is due to be released any time (word on the street is end of February). When you look at Windows 8, and you consider statistics such as the one in my headline, you can see that things could get interesting when […]

Microsoft officially announced that a new Kinect for Windows device will be released on February 1st along with a commercial license for using the Kinect SDK. This new device shouldn’t be seen as simply a toy any more than a computer mouse is a toy. I posted an article today on Codeguru, “Kinect for Windows: […]

It is New Year’s Eve, which is a great time to look back. I recently had a discussion with a few people about an interesting topic. Have you heard of Next Generation Web Services (NGWS)? If you search for Next Generation Web Services, you’ll find a number of results, but if you want to see […]

The Developer’s Toolkit is an infographic that shows the top tools being used by developers. The information based in this infographic is based on a survey of 500 developers around the world that was conducted by BestVendor. More importantly, this survey targeted developers in companies with less than 100 people. In reviewing these statistics, I […]

At Microsoft Build, Microsoft released a developer preview of Windows 8. There are a variety of pre-beta downloads you can grab today if you want to check out the preview of Windows today. In addition to including the next version of Windows, you also get a chance to see Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows […]

Lots of different people have written for Codeguru, Developer.com, and our other sites. It is great to see some of these writers expand their efforts into books and other project. Chuck Connell has published a book called Beautiful Software, which focuses on what makes good software. Chuck dives into a number of topics within software […]

A larger clickpad could make it possible to use multi-touch without having a multi-touch screen. This embedded video below shows the Synaptics ClickPad experience on Windows 8. In many scenarios, this approach makes a lot more sense than touching the screen itself. For example, I have to stretch to touch my screen. My keyboard, is […]

I wrote most of this blog entry prior to the news of Steve Job’s passing and thus held off posting it. Jobs made a huge impact on the computing industry and his impact will continue to be felt for a long time. His work with Pixar and NeXT computing were amazing and they pale next […]