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C'mon it's not that they are not welcome. It's that there is limited time and there is so much to showcase regarding mobile and the cloud.
And the sign out front that says, "Desktop developers not welcome," well, just ignore that.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I know, it was meant more like an ironical annotation. The time is limited, of course, but the lack of sessions about desktop development is just too obvious. At least there is a panel discussion on the agenda (session 2-563) and I hope there'll be some folks asking the right questions and Microsoft finally starts plain talking how the desktop fits in their future plans, especially when it comes to Win32 an WPF which are kind of dead in the water for two years. It's well about time.
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Microsoft has posted up the sessions for its BUILD conference that kicks-off this week and you can find a few tidbits of information by looking at the details of the deep dive classes. "One Windows" to yadda, yadda (you know)
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To Winfinity(tm) and beyond!
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One Windows, to not be used by anyone until they figure out what the hell they're actually doing with it.
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I note, with grave concern, the passage: "According to previous tips, this "modern" SKU might not include a Desktop for running legacy Win32 apps."
If they do that, I think I'll need to jump ship to Linux development.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: If they do that, I think I'll need to jump ship to Linux development.
Why? They aren't talking about dropping desktop altogether, just about keeping the desktop off devices that have never run it; i.e. phones and ARM devices. The idea that has been mooted about is having potentially three core SKUs; one for "modern" devices, one for desktops and one for servers. The modern device is the one they are talking about keeping the desktop off.
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Well, it won't be so bad if they were at least consistent and remove the immersive shell from the professional/enterprise SKU in the course. I think they have to re-think the desktop as well instead of just ditching it and focusing on mobile and cloud. The app model of the Windows Store is just too restricted for advanced applications (deployment only via the Store, no extensibility, etc.), and while it makes a lot of sense to unify the Windows Store app model with the app model of Windows Phone, I think there should still be a separate one for desktop apps that allows for non-Store deployment and extensibility. Kind of like WinRT+ for the desktop. Could be used for mobile app development as well via emulation (just like for Windows Phone).
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Ken Schwaber recounts the invention of scrum and compares it to reading a book about chess. "I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it."
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Microsoft on Monday named Scott Guthrie as the permanent head for Microsoft’s enterprise group, a position he has held in an acting capacity. Way to Gu!
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Nadella also officially announced the return of Stephen Elop in a "senior leadership position," which to me translates as "the guy who's going to do all the dirty work."
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Cookies as a user tracking mechanism have come under fire recently — partly due to privacy concerns and partly because they simply aren’t very useful in a mobile world. Here are some alternatives. My money is on something worse (for us)
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Informed consumers purchasing products based on merit and cost and once again being able to use pavements to walk on, in a world where all humans have at least some value.
(oh wait - or did you mean what is the alternative to cookies?)
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Brownies and muffins
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Android has been declared as the most stable mobile operating system in a new report from Crittercism, a company specialising in app analysis and management. The firm looked at statistics generated by more than a billion iOS and Android applications, finding that Android KitKat’s 0.7 percent crash rate was some way below the 1.6 percent crash rate detected on iOS 7.1. Best of a bad lot?
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A better title for them would be, "Android is a more stable OS than iOS". Because, it doesn't mention anything other than iOS.
I know it's just one user's opinion, but my last Android crashed more often in one day than my Windows Phone ever has. And technically my Windows Phone hasn't crashed. One particular app crashes periodically. The system hasn't become unstable yet.
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I have to agree - my Lumia 1020 has been rock solid. I haven't rebooted it in ages, and it's never crashed on me (so far).
My wife's iPhone on the other hand bogs down after a week or so and needs to be rebooted. Apps crash on a regular basis too - the ones that come with iOS, not downloaded ones.
I'm surprised Windows phone hasn't caught on more to be honest; is it a "MS isn't cool" thing? Bad marketing? (It IS bad marketing).
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My iPhone 4s, which I've updated to each new OS update, has never crashed.
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without even reading the article... I don't believe it. 
Windows Phone > iOS > Android
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CoffeeScript is an open source project that provides a new syntax for JavaScript. I have to say that I have a lot of respect for CoffeeScript and it got a lot of things right. "It’s just JavaScript". Sort of.
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The “golden rule” of CoffeeScript is “It’s just JavaScript”.
That means it will never be adopted and if accurate, means there's no reason for it at all.
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There are three categories of questions that all technical job applications should be prepared to answer. Context has been given where necessary, and for the technical questions, links leads to helpful resources or answers. Extra-special secret answer: your parachute is plaid
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Before courts, laws, and complex social systems, we had promises—the assurance that something will be done. Promises are still one of the most important tools we have to help us navigate social encounters. "Mr. Scott. Have you always multiplied your repair estimates by a factor of four?"
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Google is planning to “spy” on its employees for the next 100 years in order to find the secret recipe of keeping them happy and more engaged for a longer period of time, Google’s Senior Vice President of People Operations Laszlo Bock revealed in Harvard Business Review. I'd say step 1 should be: Stop tracking them
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Does it reveal how it intends to keep them alive that long?
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