Over the past four years, Apple has changed the way we think about mobile computing. The iOS Platform has changed the way that we, the public, think about our mobile computing devices. With full-featured applications and an interface architecture that demonstrates that small screens can be effective workspaces, the iPhone has become the smartphone of choice for users and developers alike.
Part of what makes the iPhone such a success is the combination of an amazing interface and an effective software distribution method. With Apple, the user experience is key. The iOS is designed to be controlled with your fingers rather by using a stylus or keypad. The applications are “natural” and fun to use, instead of looking and behaving like a clumsy port of a desktop app. Everything from interface to application performance and battery lifehas been considered. The same cannot be said for the competition. Continue Reading »
iPhone Application Development @ebook.laku-abis.com

In 2001, I set up a web site called .NET 247 (www.dotnet247.com/) that at the time achieved some success
in the community that had sprung up around Microsoft’s new software development toolset. The premise of the site was to help me as a developer migrate my knowledge from pre-.NET technologies (Win32, MFC, classic ASP, etc.) over to .NET. I found it frustrating that spinning up a thread or opening a file would be a few seconds’ work prior to .NET, but in .NET it took hours of research. Continue Reading »
MultiMobile Development – Building application for iPhone and Android

In working with SharePoint and with BI, we frequently found that there was no single source of information that could address the needs of both DBAs and SharePoint administrators and developers. In fairness, given the pace of the technology we deal with, it’s very difficult to find that one superhero who knows it all. But, in order to deliver solutions with these modern platforms, we sort of do need to know it all. We need to know core BI concepts as well as core SharePoint BI concepts. SharePoint is becoming the de facto choice for delivery of BI products for Microsoft. With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft introduced Visio Services, Business Connectivity Services, Reporting Services, a much-revamped Excel Services, and to top the cake, a completely revamped PerformancePoint Services. Pro.SharePoint.2010.Business.Intelligence.Solutions

Even if, you are an experienced .NET developer, it is difficult to find a single book that teaches you enough of all of these technologies, and enough BI concepts, to get you on the way to being productive and effective in a project that uses these concepts and technologies. That’s why we put this book together. Continue Reading »
Pro.SharePoint.2010.Business.Intelligence.Solutions – ebook.laku-abis.com

Popular acceptance of the smartphone has brought technology once only previously imagined in science fiction to today’s reality. You can now use the small electronic device that used to be a simple cell phone to manage your calendar, listen to music, take pictures, provide maps and navigation, and browse the Internet—and still make a phone call. The technology that links you to the vast information store on the Internet any time and anywhere is perhaps the greatest revolution in information access the world has seen. Not only available to the developed nations where we expect to see high-end smartphones, these devices are also widely available indeveloping nations, where they are often the primary device people use to access the Internet.

The convergence of low-cost high performance processors, cheap memory, and wireless
networking is only some of the technology that make the smartphone possible. The widespread use of open mobile computing platforms is the key to the smartphone’s success. These platforms have opened the door for third parties (that’s you!) to write software applications for these mobile computing platforms quickly and inexpensively. Continue Reading »
Beginning Nokia Apps Development_Using MeeGo, Mobile QT and OpenSymbian

So, you want to be an Android developer? Good, you’ve come to the right place. Whether you’re a dabbler, professional, hobbyist, or coding junkie, I hope you’ve picked up my book out of a desire to learn about the somewhat schizophrenic world that is mobile development.

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Android Essentials

This book is for people, average users, not technical experts. I assume you have at least a passing familiarity with mobile phones like the iPhone or those based on Google Android, but it’s not a requirement. I assume you use a Windows-based PC, and not a Mac. (Though I will at least point out that, despite the incongruity of
using a device called Windows Phone in tandem with a Mac, it is at least possible for those who are interested in reverse switching. Yes, they’re out there.)

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Windows 7 Phone Secret

Projects are essentially defined as getting new things done, and as such they are risky. But is there really any similarity between getting new things done in, say, critical illness surgery and, say, building oil rigs? That is, is project management a general discipline, with general principles which apply to a wide variety of different kinds of industry? Yes, is the short answer. Of course, one would be insane to try to innovate in one kind of business without using available expertise, in other words, there are many things in projects that will vary from industry to industry, but there are also general principles. Continue Reading »
The Definitive Guide to Project Management

Build has historically been kind of like a black art, in the sense that there are just a few people who know and understand build, and are passionate about it. But in today’s evolving environment that is changing. Now more and more people are becoming interested in build, and making it a part of their routine development activities. Continue Reading »
Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build

Data is a form of currency. As members of society, we provide information about ourselves to gain access to services and goods that we desire. We collect information about others in order to market our services and obtain verification of identity. As Database Professionals it is our lifeblood. We labor daily to store, backup, transfer, transform, share, report, analyze and protect data. Ultimately, our primary concern is protection of the data’s integrity, availability and confidentiality. Continue Reading »
Protecting SQL Server Data