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Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Nine – Introducing Functions in F#
In this post, we'll learn how to use F# to ease the pain for us.
What does sudo mean?
I've always wondered what sudo means when I use it to run a command in a terminal.
Example of a full-width bleed using Bootstrap 3
See how to use Bootstrap 3 to create a full-page bleed.
Guest Blog Post: Work Experience at endjin – Week 2
Joshua, 15, is spending two weeks at endjin doing work experience. In this post he reflects on his second and final week.
Learning to Program - A Beginners Guide - Part Eight - Working With Logic
In this post, we'll look at how we can bring logic to bear on our problems.
Xamarin platform setup gotchas: Final Edition!
Last post on the topic and links to all the other entries centred around troubleshooting/setting up your Xamarin mobile dev environment.
Guest Blog Post: Work Experience at endjin - Week 1
Joshua, 15, is spending two weeks at endjin doing work experience. In this post he reflects on his first week.
Visual Studio, Xcode and VMware Fusion Shared Folders
Xamarin lets you develop iOS applications using Visual Studio. This is obviously great for .NET Developers except that you currently have to go to Xcode (Apple's Developer tool) if you want to create the UI using a designer tool.
Learning to Program - A Beginners Guide - Part Seven - Representing Numbers
In post, we're going to look at the data memory in more detail, and learn how we can represent numbers in a computer.
Running the Windows Phone Emulator in VMware Fusion
If you run Windows 8 on your Mac with VMware Fusion 5.0 , you might get the following error message when starting the Windows Phone emulator for the first time: The Windows Phone Emulator wasn't able to create the virtual machine.
More Xamarin platform setup gotchas
Today my Xamarin trial expired - Sadface. But endjin generously supplied me with a new Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS Business edition license, things were looking up - Happyface! However after activating the new license and upgrading to a newer version of Xamarin Studio on both my Mac and the guest Windows 8 OS, my master solution containing all the projects for the different platforms (Android, iOS and Windows Phone) was no longer building.
Angular.JS ngRepeat and Bootstrap layout bug on IE7
In this post we delve into a bug we discovered with Angular.JS and Bootstrap that appears in IE 7.
Learning to Program - A Beginners Guide - Part Six - A First Look at Algorithms
In this post we're going to take a look at algorithms.
Android Device Manager and SDK Location
After going through the Xamarin installation instructions for Mac and Windows , I ended up in a situation where the AVD Manager ( Android Virtual Device Manager ) on my Windows VM would not let me create a new AVD...
Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Five – Running a program
Let's start our exploration of this architecture by looking at the Program Instructions memory.
Windows Phone Capabilities and enabling the camera in the emulator
A short explanation of Windows Phone capabilities and how to enable the camera.
Introducing endjin composition framework 2.0 : Part 5 - Debugging
Learn how to debug the endjin composition framework.
Learning to Program - A Beginners Guide - Part Four - A Simple Model of a Computer
In this post, we're going to be taking a look at one representation of the hardware box - from a programmer's perspective.
Windows Phone Registration Failure: Error 0x64
A quick fix to error 0x64 when registering a new Windows Phone device.
Introducing endjin composition framework 2.0 : Part 4 - ASP.NET MVC/WebAPI
Learn how to use the endjin composition framework inside ASP.NET MVC or Web API
Learning To Program - A Beginners Guide - Part Three - How Does a Computer Work?
Windows Run Commands for Developers
The other day I wanted to bring up the Windows "Program and Features" panel using the run command (Win+R or just start typing in the Start screen in Win 8). Something I've done countless number of times in the past. For some reason, I had a complete blank and couldn't recall what that particular command was. So I thought it would be good to have a couple of tips and some of the most useful run commands for Developers (and everybody else) in one place.
Introducing endjin composition framework 2.0 : Part 3 - Using the content factory
Learn how to use the endjin composition framework content factory
Retrying tasks with TPL, async and synchronous code
Dealing with Transient Faults is absolutely essential when working in The Cloud. We delve into the library we've created for dealing with this situation.
Learning To Program - A Beginners Guide - Part Two
In this post, we're going to set up the tools that we're going to use in the rest of this course on Windows or Linux.