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Sharing Code Between Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8
As we build applications for more and more platforms, it is extremely important that we maximize our code reuse across platforms. With the release of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, Microsoft has made...
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How to Start Designing for Windows 8 Apps
So you want to design an app for Windows 8, huh? Moving from designing traditional web pages to apps can be a tough transition, but as designers we need to constantly push and recreate ourselves so...
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KCI Goes Mobile With a Custom-Developed Windows 8 Application
Is your organization in need of a cutting-edge, custom-developed mobile application? AIS is quickly becoming the go-to organization by developing innovative solutions like KCI Technologies’ new...
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Responsive Design & the Mobile Worker
What exactly is Responsive Design? The simple answer: Making digital media viewable across all devices and resolutions. Take your company website, for example. It looks great on your desktop computer,...
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Accessing an IIS Express Site From an iPad
We often develop websites that require specific styling to render properly on the iPad via Safari. By default, sites served from one’s development machine are not accessible by other machines. So how...
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Microsoft’s Transformational Change
I’ve been reading a lot about the sweeping organizational changes at Microsoft. It’s always interesting to analyze and attempt to interpret their strategy and internal politics. (For example, why is...
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Zipping and Unzipping Files in a WinJS Application
I recently encountered a requirement to programmatically zip multiple files into an archive in a Windows 8 JavaScript/HTML app. The intent was to shrink the several large files as much as possible for...
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What’s New in Windows 8.1 App Design
As a UX Designer, I admit that there are parts about Windows 8 that I love…and some I’ve hated. But I recently had the pleasure of training on UX Design for Windows 8.1 apps with two of Microsoft’s...
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Some Lessons Learned for Mobile App Requirements Management
We’ve recently worked on several mobile app development projects for tablets and phones running iOS, Android and Windows. Thanks to these projects, we’ve identified some key do’s and don’ts for...
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Writing WinJS apps with DurandalJS on Windows 8.1
Durandal is a popular Single Page Application (SPA) framework for web development. I recently had the need to develop a WinJS project for Windows 8.1 and wanted to make use of our existing in-house...
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