Bradley L. Jones

We have launched a new area on Developer.com. Our Android Development Center is now live. Check it out at http://www.developer.com/ws/android.  Let us know if you like what we’ve done.

Microsoft Build was the coming out party for Windows 8 development. While there I took a few pictures with my phone. Here are just a few of them I thought worth sharing. Yes, they are primarly slide presentations, but I figured that information was more interesting than seeing people! The slide that was most interesting: […]

While some might question it, in general, developers are good at heart. In fact, the developer community can be extremely caring. The growth of Give Camps over the last few years is just one indication of the way developers are giving back to their communities. A give camp is a week-end event where developers and […]

Yes, it is true. The death of Silverlight and Flash have been predicted. The culprit? HTML5.

There is likely to be a ton of articles written in the last 24 hours on Windows 8 and the announcements at the Build conference. There is a lot being presented. In fact, I’ve started working on a couple of articles and blog posts that will be posted in the near future. I thought I’d […]

It is too early to state whether the Microsoft Build Conference was worth the wait. The conference keynote starts in about an hour and a half. Expectations are high that there will be industry changing announcements. Just the release of information on Windows 8 should be enough to have an impact, but there is a […]

There are a number of open source content management systems and tools being used to build web sites today. Among the top that I see mentioned the most are WordPress, DotNetNuke, Drupal, and Joomla. I’m also seeing Umbraco mentioned more in conversations as well because it supports .NET. While not everyone has likely heard of […]

A couple of new articles have been published related to certifications and their overall value. One of the articles focuses on which certifications can help you get into the “$100k club”. While many developers are now in this club, the question for those that are not is whether the time and money invested in a […]

I mentioned Microsoft’s Build Windows conference in previous blog posts. In that post I mentioned what we knew at that time about the Windows Build conference. Beyond a date and high-level comments on covering Windows 8 development, not a lot has been said. Regardless, the conference is now listed as sold out! If you want […]

If you haven’t already seen it, then here it is. Mary Jo Foley blogged about the Gmail video that is now out on YouTube. The video is pushing Microsoft Office 365 at the end, so it is believed it might have come from Microsoft.   Note: If you are reading this entry in a forum, you’ll […]

We’ve added site pinning to several of our sites including Codeguru. In order to see the site pinning, you need to be using Internet Explorer 9 or later. This will allow you to drag and pin an icon to the taskbar. In Windows this pinned icon on the task bar will provide a menu when […]

“no compromises–you get to use whatever kind of device you prefer to run the apps you love.” The quote above comes from the Microsoft Build Web site. While the new conference is scheduled for September 13th through the 16th in California, information on the event has been limited. In fact, as I write this, the […]