I have been reading an early preview of iOS 5 Programming Cookbook and wanted to show a new feature called Storyboards. In previous versions of iOS, you would use navigation controllers to push and pop view controllers to be shown on the screen. Now in iOS 5, Apple believes this can be done easier with [...]
It’s been a little over a month and I’ve been grinding through learning iOS development using Xcode and Objective-C. I come from a .NET background using Visual Studio and C# and find it slowly becoming easier to understand the Objective-C syntax. I’ve been primarily using the Nerd Ranch Book to learn iOS development but recently [...]
The Microsoft Speech Platform provides a great speech recognition engine. I’ve been using it with the Microsoft Kinect to add voice command functionality to existing Kinect enabled WPF applications. The SDK is located here, and once installed you just need to add a reference to Microsoft.Speech.dll, which is located at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Speech Platform SDK\Assembly. [...]
I’ve been playing with the developer preview release of Windows 8 that we got from //BUILD/. Everyday, we find more and more “issues” that are either just straight up bugs, things that are not implemented yet, or maybe even issues that won’t be resolved because WinRT is “just different”. This one was especially “fun” to [...]
This post is a continuation off of this post on Up and Running with Git and Visual Studio, if you have no idea what Git is, or how to setup git and git-extensions on windows I recommend you start there. So you’ve installed git and git extensions, written a sweet hello world application, made some [...]
This is just a quick guide for those on windows using Visual Studio and wanting to start tinkering with GIT. If you want to know why Git is better than (Insert source control management system here), click this link. Or, if you more in the mood to hear why every other source control system in [...]