Build 2015

Build 2015

If you like to keep oriented – more stuff worth watching is coming up today.

Day 2 Live event starts 3 hours and 30 minutes from now.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2015/KEY02

Replay of Day 1 keynote

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2015/KEY01

Scheduled sessions

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2015?sort=schedule&direction=asc#tab_sortBy_schedule

Oh, and note the cute little ’10’ sign on Channel 9’s logo 🙂

     

The Microsoft Build conference is quite mind blowing this year.

The Microsoft Build conference is quite mind blowing this year.

It seems that Win32 apps will be accepted into Windows Store, but too early to tell if it means VS apps only – or apps from other tools, such as RAD Studio, as well.  Windows Store apps will be deployed in a virtualized sandbox – sort of – which means that when you uninstall, no crap is left behind on disk, nor in Registry. How this will work with stuff like addons – remains to be seen.

Their new approach to cross platform is a game changer. If you got the time, you need to watch this.  VS can now compile Android/Java apps and iOS Objective-C apps into Windows Apps. 

Oh, and the new Universal Apps are crazy cool.

Time to add to the skillset, for sure!

Don’t worry, though. I still love Delphi 🙂

P.S. HoloLens is also starting to look super sexy.  All in all, MS suddenly is back as the most vibrant of our platform vendors, outdoing Google, Apple and others in functional coolness.

Inkscape Vector Drawing

Inkscape Vector Drawing

 Inkscape looks like a useful alternative for modifying .svg files (and other vector or bitmap formats).   It’s still a bit buggy in certain UI features, such as click handlers not working here and there, but a space press doubles as click as soon as the button or checkbox is selected.

     

   https://inkscape.org/

Free Visual Studio Community 2013

Free Visual Studio Community 2013

It isn’t easy for EMBT to compete with this, for sure :/

“A full-Featured IDE – Free. 

Start coding the app of your dreams for Windows, Android, and iOS.

– Designers, editors, debuggers, profilers – all packaged up in a single environment

– Code in C++, Python, HTML5, JavaScript, and of course C#, VB, and F#

– Extensive web support for ASP.NET, Node.js, and JavaScript

-Tools for Apache Cordova and Unity to reach even more platforms”

https://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community-vs

Zero to Hero with Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Database

Zero to Hero with Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Database

If you are new to SQL databases, this 5 hour(!) video starts with the absolute basics, and progresses into fairly advanced use, tuning and debugging.  Some of it is specific to MSSQL Server, but the basics are conceptually applicable to most SQL dbs.

http://goo.gl/NaHkPa