Just a quick post to tell you all, I got interviewed by “The Cynical Developer” podcast, and it’s now live and online for you to listen too.
You can hear me talk about HTML5 and Flexbox at:
The Cynical Developer Episode 28
Enjoy…..
Shawty
Creating a .NET 4.6.2 Build server on Server 2012
Given that I’ve not written anything original for over a year and a half (More on that in another post) and given I had an hour to spare, I thought I’d quickly go over what I’ve been up to this weekend (Feb 2nd 2017).
As part of a new project I’m involved in, I needed to create a new CI/Build server, and since I’ve had a Dell C6100 sat in the server rack not been used to it’s full potential, I decided now was a good time to put it into use.
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LIDNUG & Stephanie Locke Thur 10th March
OH yea, Lidnug has a new free online webinar coming up… will you be there?
I would like to let you all know that we have an up-coming event on LIDNUG Thur 10th March with Stephanie Locke titled…
Implementing Analytics in your Applications
This is a free event held on-line through Live Meeting available to anyone who wishes to attend.
You can register for the event via Eventbrite here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lidnug-steph-locke-implementing-analytics-in-your-applications-tickets-21681931240
And now; a few words about Steph…
Steph Locke wants to live in a world where everyone she encounters enjoys their jobs and is awesome. Since she’s gifted with the inability to be daunted by a task, she’s using her unbounded perkiness to bring awesomeness to the people. Steph is a fiend for learning, an MVP and a highly popular presence at many community events in the UK; and that’s before we even start talking about the events Steph organises herself.
Steph can be found on twitter : @SteffLocke
and you can find her blog here :
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Syncfusion E-Book Number 7
Can you believe it’s 3 years since I wrote my first eBook for the Syncfusion Succinctly series, back in January 2013 Syncfusion released “GIS Succinctly”, I never really though it would go much further than that because I really didn’t believe I had that much to offer as a technical writer.
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Lidnug & Scott Guthrie – 4th August 2015
The GU is coming back to LIDNUG!!!
It is with great pleasure that I add this to my blog.
On the 4th of August, Scott Guthrie (Microsoft Corporate VP) himself will be kindly holding is 18th live Q&A session with Lidnug. This is a free event hosted online via Live Meeting and all are welcome to come along.
The time of this event is Tuesday, August 4th 2015, from 10:00AM to 11:30 AM (PDT)
You can register your interest on Eventbrite here…
Do note you can add this even to your calendar via Eventbrite and please double check time conversions to your local time when doing so.
Once the event is close to starting, the links required to join the session will be posted/sent out. Also; we strongly advise that if you’re going to do this session, to use a windows machine and install the Windows LM Client.
Look forward to see you there and if you have any…
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User Experience Design Goes Deeper Than Tools or Strategies
An excellent post by my good friend and fellow Lidnug manager, Gavin Lanata.
As many have said, it is fair to say that if you are designing a User Experience for software you are probably doing one or more of the following – Visual Design, Interaction Design, and User Research.
This is in no way a complete list.
These disciplines are the tools or patterns which are used to implement a great user experience. Great, so according to what we’ve just talked about, if we use these tools and mix in many of the well talked about strategies dotted around we should end up with a great user experience.
Well, maybe; depending on the context of the design you are chasing after.
A good friend of mine recently told me about a conversation he’d had with a company offering their services as software developers. Only they weren’t offering their services as software developers, instead they were offering experiences. In their words—’people don’t want…
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My 6th Syncfusion E-Book has been released
So here it is at last, my Syncfusion Succinctly E-Book on CSS3
100 Pages of info all about the latest CSS specification for those wanting to learn it, as pleased as I am with it however, there was a huge amount I had to leave out of it.
