Day 1 of Build 2013 came and passed days ago now. Despite not having an attendee badge, I did pay quite a bit of attention to the keynote and the announcements that came with it. I think instead of doing a regurgitation of everything that happened, it might be more instructive to simply comment on the things that I found most relevant from the Day 1 keynote. I’ll do the same for the day two keynote. Here’s what you need…

There’s been a lot of debate about whether or not the new Start button in Windows 8.1 is useful or not. Some people, including myself, have said that all they did was add pixels to draw attention to something you could already do in Windows 8.1 (click in the left corner to go to Start). These people, myself included, had not used or configured Windows 8.1 in a way that shows off how the new Start button functionality…

Microsoft has added the Start button back in Windows 8.1. This was one of the most requested features for Windows 8 since the debut of the operating system. When coupled with another new feature, boot to desktop, users who are most productive in the desktop environment will be able to boot straight to the desktop and take advantage of the new Start button enhancements.

New enhancements for Start button

One other new…

As I sit on my first plane en route to San Francisco, I can’t help but wonder what awaits me at the conference I am flying to attend. That conference, of course, is Microsoft’s developer conference, Build. Microsoft’s recent commercials, which I admittedly first saw one of last night, are referring to one experience on all screens. They’re referring to the desktop, tablet, and phone although that experience arguably carries…

When getting started with responsive web design, it can often be helpful to look at some examples of what is possible. Creating a wonderful responsive site takes a bit of imagination and planning and it can be good to get some inspiration from the designs of other sites. The best place on the web that I have found for exploring this is Media Queries. It even has a clever URL! (mediaqueri.es). Let’s take a look at this…

WWDC is Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference and it kicks off today with an always much anticipated keynote. The keynote event can be streamed online so tons of internet traffic will be pouring through Apple’s datacenter starting at 10AM Pacific. I thought it might be fun to summarize what I think we can expect to see in the keynote and see how much of it comes to pass and see what ends up being a surprise.

iOS 7

Today’s HTML5 resource is HTML5 Doctor. HTML5 Doctor is a wonderful resource for both learning HTML5 and referencing the elements of HTML that have changed in HTML5. This is definitely one of those sites you will want to have bookmarked if you are doing work with HTML5. Let’s look what’s available on this site and how it can help you.

Articles

The HTML5 Doctor site has a ton of articles listed under…