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2015 - September/October

WTF JavaScript?!? (Well That's Fabulous!) Sept/Oct explores various idiosyncrasies of JavaScript and how to work around them. Among other great articles, we also take a look at Hadoop on Windows, Azure Skyline and Interactive Onboarding.

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2015 - September/October · 11 articles

Editorial

By Rod Paddock

How MS-DOS nearly ended Rod's software career before it had even begun...
Manager's Corner: Recharging

By Mike Yeager

Mike teaches us the value of taking a vacation--it's good for the whole team!
A Data-Driven Menu System for Bootstrap

By Paul Sheriff

Did you know that you can create a simple one-line menu system using two C# classes and a little bit of Razor code in an MVC page to create a hierarchical menu structure for drop-down menus? Paul shows you how.
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More about Xamarin Pages

By Walt Ritscher (LinkedIn)

Walt continues his series of articles on Xamarin, this time, exploring the nature of pages. You’ll learn what a page is, how to navigate among them, how to create sub-pages, and strategies for loading data onto pages.
All Aboard: Maximize Mobile Engagement with Interactive Onboarding

By Jason Bender

You can sell your app with creative marketing, but you’ve got to do something more to get customers to not only open your app but use it, too. Jason takes a look at onboarding techniques.
WTF.js

By Sahil Malik

Sahil takes a look at some strange behavior on the part of JavaScript. He provides a list of common mistakes and what to do about them.
The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Miscellaneous Transact-SQL Tips

By Kevin Goff

Whether you’re new to T-SQL or not, you’re sure to find something interesting among Kevin’s tips for using it, no matter which version of SQL Server you’re using.
XAML Anti-Patterns: Layout SNAFUs

By Markus Egger

Just when you think a container is simple, your user resizes the screen and mayhem ensues. If you want to know what happened—or prevent it, better yet—read Markus’ piece about the XAML layout engine.
Azure Skyline: Hello World—Virtual Machines in the Cloud

By Mike Yeager

Mike introduces you to the wonder of the cloud through a free subscription to Microsoft’s Azure. He gives an interesting tour and helps guide you through your first app.
Using Apache Hadoop on the Windows Platform

By Gary Short

If you’ve ever wondered what the difference is between MapReduce and Hadoop, Gary will tell you, putting it all in context of Hadoop and .NET.
Managed Coder: On Liberal Arts

By Ted Neward

Ted shows us how it doesn't take a CS degree to know how to make great apps.