Bradley L. Jones

What is the Chakra JavaScript engine? Simply put, it is a JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft’s Edge browser. One of the nice things about the Chakra engine is that Microsoft is moving it to open source. In fact, they announced in December that they would be moving the core components to open source, and now […]

I’m constantly getting barraged with information on products, news, and other information related to developers and the development world. This week an interesting infographic crossed my desk from Tasktop on software developers’ perceptions of productivity. This rather simple infographic is based on data from last year; however, I’m guessing that time has not changed the […]

One of the exciting things coming out of Microsoft is the Microsoft Hololens. You can actually apply now to be on the list to get the developer edition of Hololens, which will be available in the first quarter of 2016 for $3000 US. With this release to the more general developer community coming soon, it […]

Gone are the days where you needed to shell out hundreds or thousands of dollars to start developing hardcore applications. The evolution of trial versions to light versions has come to the point where there are now robust suites of development tools that are readily available from both open source markets as well as proprietary […]

Each month our sister site, eWeek, picks an IT topic to focus on and do a tweet chat. This month the topic is on Legacy IT Providers and whether they can keep up with change. This is done by using a twitter tag, #eWeekChat, so anyone can participate or simply follow along. If you are […]

In case you don’t know, S. Somasegar (“Soma”) is a Corporate Vice President at Microsoft over the developer division. He’s been over Visual Studio and the developer tools for just short of forever, and he has been at Microsoft for 27 years in total. After almost three decades, it is sad to see him leaving […]

I had the privilege of trying a Microsoft HoloLens earlier this year at Microsoft Build. I was very impressed with the technology. It is a standalone Virtual Reality system that runs Windows 10. It allows you to create and interact with augmented reality using 3D holograms, spatial positioning, sound, and much more. Today, Microsoft announced […]

With Windows 10 out in the market, it is now time to focus our attention to the enterprise. In that regard, Microsoft released Technical Previews for Windows Server 2015 and System Center 2016. This is the third technical preview for these products. Along with this release, Microsoft has called attention to the first public release […]

Today Microsoft officially released Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6, which are now available to download from the Microsoft site. While pre-releases have been available since last November, now you can obtain the final bits. In addition to the expected versions of Visual Studio, Microsoft also included the release of Visual Studio Community. This is […]

When Google does something different, it gets people’s attention. Google Glass got people’s attention as a wearable, augmented reality computer that was small, lightweight, and relatively easy to use. Since Google’s release of Google Glass to developers, other VR and augmented reality devices have been announced. I’ve touched on one or two, including Microsoft’s HoloLens. […]

Surface has evolved over the years from a sit-down table top system to a wall system to the more robust Surface Hub that Microsoft has been showing at their last few conferences. Somewhere in all that history, Microsoft also spun out the tablet Surface system as well. Although the tablet Surfaces have evolved quickly and […]

At the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), Apple announced that they would open source Swift 2.0 and make it available later this year. Swift is the programming language that Apple has been positioning for developing for the Apple platforms, which include OS X and iOS. In their June 8th blog, Apple stated the following regarding […]