Swift 5.3: A Programming Language for a Growing Ecosystem Nate Swanner, October 23, 2020 8 min read Six years after its initial launch, Swift is still in a fairly rapid development cycle, with a focus on stability and...
Microsoft BUILD: Project Reunion May Solve Unique Windows Issue Dice Staff, May 22, 2020 3 min read Windows has a bit of a fragmentation problem. Decisions made during the Windows 8 era have cascaded until, today, you...
Running Android on PC: A Developer’s Overview David Bolton, December 19, 2019 6 min read As a developer, I occasionally have to test software on non-PC platforms. Naturally, it's easier if this testing takes...
Microsoft ARM Ambitions May Repeat Old Mistakes Nick Kolakowski, October 2, 2019 4 min read Way back in Ye Olden Days of 2012, Microsoft tried something unusual: It released a Surface tablet (dubbed the...
Microsoft Bundles ‘New’ Terminal, Linux Kernel in Windows 10 Nate Swanner, May 8, 2019 4 min read Did you want a flashy Terminal with an opaque background and emojis? Were you itching for more Linux in Windows 10?...
The Folding Smartphone Is Coming, but Developers Are in the Dark Nate Swanner, January 17, 2019 5 min read A few years ago, the folding smartphone was an interesting proof-of-concept. Now it’s just around the corner, and...
Microsoft Cutting Off App Submissions for Windows 8 Store Nick Kolakowski, August 27, 2018 3 min read If any tech pros are maintaining apps in the Windows 8 Store, or for Windows Phone 8, now’s the time to start...
Deploying a .NET Application with Docker David Bolton, August 2, 2018 7 min read Containers are a relatively new phenomenon for Windows. Although containers evolved for 20 years in the Linux...
Using Linux Natively Within Windows 10: A Quick Guide David Bolton, July 5, 2018 7 min read If you're a Windows developer who dabbles in Linux (as I've done for the past decade), you might have gone down one of...
For Microsoft, the ‘Windows-First’ Era is Over Nick Kolakowski, April 3, 2018 3 min read The era of Windows is over. Actually, that’s not entirely true: Windows continues to run on hundreds of millions...
