I’ve been an avid iPad user for 30 months and counting. I still love and use my Pad a lot, but I also bought a new Surface RT. Will my Surface ever completely replace my iPad? I don’t know yet, but I’d love to find out. This blog series is aimed at comparing...
I’ve been an avid iPad user since May 2010. I upgraded to an iPad 3, err… sorry, the “New iPad” in June 2012, which is apparently now already obsolete thanks to the introduction of the 4th generation iPad barely 6 months later. Thanks Tim Cook, really...
There is a new version of Windows available today: Windows 8 . Every time you hear about Windows 8, you hear about how vastly different it is from Windows 7 and its predecessors. Then you head to a Microsoft Store , or stumble into one of those pop-up...
The XAML Syntax Editor is pretty awesome control – I mean being able to create your own code editor is one and then just customize language and coloring and… add the fact that you can split the view and be on at line 50 and 500 at the same time and making...
The XamSyntaxEditor is one of the recent additions to the Infragistics toolset. It made an odd voyage from being announced as a CTP not with a release, but with a service release a bit over two months ago. And now it is on route to a XAML project near...
First of all, I would like thank all of you who attended the webinar today. There were a lot of really great questions asked and I hope I provided you with sufficient enough answers to all of them. I would like to apologize for the missing slides issue...
In the previous post in this series, we went through the third of five principles that guide successful Windows Store application design, authentically digital . Today I would like to talk about the fourth principle: Do more with less. This principle...
In the previous post in this series, we went through the second of five principles that guide successful Windows Store application design, be fast and fluid . Today I would like to talk about the third principle: Authentically digital. This is by far...
In the previous post in the series, we went through the first of 5 principles that guide successful Windows Store application design. Today I would like to talk about the second principle: Be fast and fluid. If there is any one Microsoft design principle...
Time for some more fiddling with the elaborate API of the jQuery Editors helping you deliver awesome experiences! Here’s the quick jump list for the previous articles: jQuery Editors: How to get started and improve productivity and experience jQuery Editors...
Once you get to know Infragistics’ set of jQuery Editors you begin to realize they are packed with various options and all sorts of knobs to be tweaked. It’s quite the rich API and it can be put to good use to create awesome client-side experience for...
In Part 1 of the Microsoft Design Style Series, What is Microsoft Design Style? , I listed the five principles of the Microsoft design style and mentioned that later in the series I would go into them in detail. I promised you that they are not just marketing...
Today I would like to preview an upcoming tutorial series I have been working on and will begin posting here soon. The series will build a Windows Store application called "Running Total" from the ground up. The application will allow users...
In order to truly understand something it is often important to understand where it originated. This is especially important when the subject at hand is design. Almost everything designed today has its roots somewhere in the past. The Microsoft design...
This is the second part covering the topic of jQuery Grid checkbox column alternatives and/or custom implementations. A quick recap: the Checkbox column is a feature that provides default setup to turn Boolean values in the jQuery grid into checkboxes...
