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...
5 Ways to Catch and Handle Errors in Desktop and Web Apps David Bolton, March 5, 2018 9 min read It’s a sad fact of life that, no matter how skilled the programmers writing it, all code has errors (at least...
‘Ink to Code’ is Microsoft’s Fun New Dev Project Nate Swanner, January 30, 2018 3 min read Even in a digital-first world, many ideas still start on paper. Bridging the gap from rough notebook sketch to app or...
