Windows Phone 8 has a lot of great features. Get insights into the new features in the Windows 8 platform that you, as a developer, can target in your applications.
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It continues to get easier to build fancier and more robust applications. Unfortunately, it seems that the expectations from end-users are increasing too. There is more for developers to know. Topics that were just conceptual pipe dreams a few years ago are now making their way into every day applications. Here are a number of concepts that developers need to know about today, or they risk falling behind.
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Lean software development is helping to improve efficiencies and profits. Start identifying waste by learning and applying the Seven Deadly Wastes of Software Development to your specific project and find out how Lean software development principles can improve production and lead to higher customer satisfaction.
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Despite overwhelming demand, Leap Motion is still taking requests from developers who want to try out its motion control technology.
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There are several tools on the market that will capture detailed bug descriptions for QA departments and software developers. Kaushal Amin compares three of the best to see how they measure up.
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The company will ship a Ubuntu-based XPS 13 designed for developers this fall.
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Where is QA now? What will happen to QA departments? In the new, Agile development world where working software is key, QA is becoming too expensive and slowing down the time-to-market.
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Microsoft hopes Apps for Office will "reinvigorate Office as a platform."
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The company hopes to deter software pirates by tightening up its developer programs.
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Are you ready to build or port your apps over to the new Windows 8 Metro UI? Chris Bennet walks you through a high-level overview of the Metro UI design, features, development and deployment of apps.
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Instructor Shereef Bishay has a good track record of finding jobs for attendees, but it is worth the $12,000 price tag?
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Project Sputnik runs Ubuntu and includes developer-friendly utilities.
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Microsoft sent "save the date" notices to selected developers.
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Staffing firm Bluewolf says that 2012 looks very good for developers with the right skills.
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The new app certification program promises greater security, but it also makes the OS X and iOS ecosystems more closed.
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The company delivered new releases for three of its development tools this month.
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Thomas Suarez talks about creating the Bustin Jieber app.
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Any developer who survives a layoff usually faces a significant increase in workload. These three immediate steps can improve a developer's work situation after others are let go.
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Oracle promises Java SE 7 release this year with increased developer productivity, modularization, and support for more than 200 languages.
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New JavaFX RAD Tool for NetBeans coming next week, in preview at least.
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By adopting a messaging based approach to task parallelism, the Asynchronous Agents Library provides a simple model for concurrent programming that avoids the complexity of memory locks.
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OP-ED: Unlike the Illuminati, the IEEE exists, and they have a secret. This secret helps them turn out shiny MP3 players, phones, and computers with processing power than we programmers can figure out how to use. This is how they do it. When will developers learn the same truths?
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