Bradley L. Jones

Last week Microsoft continued down the path of making more of their development platform open source. ASP.NET had been made open source a while back. Last fall they released the .NET CoreFX portions of the .NET Framework, and now they add to that the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR). This is now available through the […]

When the Galileo board came out from Intel, people were excited because it meant an easier solution to developing in the Maker/IoT space with Microsoft tools and programming languages such as Visual Studio and C#. Although the Galileo is seen as a good board, its price was a lot higher than the Arduino and Raspberry […]

Microsoft did a media presentation today showcasing more information on what is coming with Microsoft Windows 10, which is expected to be released this year. Although most of the information built on what has been stated before as well as what was expected, there were a couple of tidbits that were new to me. The […]

Visual Studio Online was released on November of 2013 as a software as a service product offering Visual Studio services and features based on Team Foundation Server (TFS) with additional cloud services. As to be expected, VS Online connects to regular version of Visual Studio, but it also works with Eclipse, Xcode, and other Git […]

Are you doing unit testing? It is a core step in the development process, so every developer should be doing unit testing. Are you doing unit testing? Uma Narayanan has posted an article highlighting the five best practices for writing unit test scripts. Take a look at this article on Developer.com. After reading the article, […]

Big Data is a big buzz term of the day as is social media and social media integration for businesses. It has been predicted that big data analysis will impact what we know and what is happening, and a new software product called the Social Oracle is showing an example of how analyzing social media […]

According to security experts at Unisys Corporation, they are predicting that there will be even more security challenges in the years ahead as mobile devices and applications  along with the increase in use of IoT (Internet of Things) make their way into the workplace.  Unisys also reports that they expect people to be more focused […]

Mendix delivered a report on the “App Delivery Chasm” that contains a number of stats and details that are interesting for developers. This chasm comes from the fact that IT organizations cannot keep up with the demands for business applications. In fact, 71% of surveyed IT Organizations said they couldn’t keep up. As a result […]

Simply put, most developers don’t seem to trust cloud storage. In our poll, over 2300 people responded on our developer sites to the simple question of “Do you trust cloud storage?” and the result was that over 50% said no. Only one in four said they did trust cloud storage, while nearly 19% were not […]

Failure is a part of life and a part of business. Many of the greatest people have failed at some time. This week, FailFest14 launched as a new conference to focus on the success of failure. From the many presentations at this one-day conference, there were a lot of insights and pearls of wisdom to […]

Microsoft did an online virtual event called Connect(); on the first day, they made a number of announcements about changes and updates coming out of Microsoft including new product releases and a change to the Visual Studio Editions. The short list of big announcements is: .NET is going Open Source & Cross platform – They […]

FitBit recently released their newest monitoring band, the Charge. They also announced in early 2015 they will release the Charge HR that includes a heart rate monitor. The newest entry into this health monitoring wearable computer devices is the Microsoft Band, which is now in the Microsoft Store for $199.99 US. The Microsoft Band appears […]