BobTabor
BobTabor
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Part 31: Where to Go From HereBob reviews the topics discussed throughout the series and provides some additional resources and guidance regarding how you should approach your career as a software developer.
Windows 8 UX Fundamentals Training Workshop 2012
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Part 30: Simulating Product PurchasesFinally, we learn how to enable in-product purchases to unlock certain features or allow for the purchase of in-app items making it possible for us to use a "free-mium" business model.
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Part 29: Simulating App PurchasesContinuing on from the previous lesson, we learn how to unlock the app and its features by allowing the user to purchase a full version of the app directly from the app.
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Part 28: Detecting Trial VersionsIn this final Hands On Lab, we use the CurrentAppSimulator class to simulate interaction with the Windows Store API. Here, we simply use the configuration file to declaratively modify the user interface. This simulates the data retrieved from the Windows Store.
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Part 27: Incorporating Scheduled ToastsThis lesson demonstrates the use of scheduled toasts to remind or notify the user of a task or change in the app.
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Part 26: Incorporating Push NotificationsContinuing from Part 25, this lesson demonstrates how to utilize push notifications from Windows Notification Services to provide information or state updates from the cloud to the user on the Windows 8 start page.
Windows Azure Mobile Services
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/tutorials/get-started/
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Part 25: Incorporating Secondary TilesThe Windows 8 start page is a distinctive feature and this lesson demonstrates how to implement secondary tiles to allow "deep linking" in the app.
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Part 24: Implementing the PreferenceIn this lesson, we follow the instructions of the Hands On Lab to tie up the loose ends and actually implement the desired functionality.
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Part 23: Adding a Preferences PageIn this lesson, we use the ToggleSwitch WinJS control to capture a user's preference for how to deal with remembering the state of the app prior to it being terminated. We talk about the different special folders and objects we can use to save user data, and discuss roaming and how to utilize it in our...
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Part 22: Adding an About PageIn this lesson, we learn how to add Settings pages to our project. These are used to respond to the Settings charm in Windows 8, and can be used for About pages, Preferences, or other related purposes.
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Series Introduction - 01
22 hours ago@Raphael:
Styling Your First HTML5 Web Page with CSS3 - 03
1 day ago@KrishMosaic: Thank you! I'll see your
+ 1 and raise you +1 ... thanks for taking the time to write! 
Part 1: Series Introduction
2 days ago@David Nealey: Thanks for the nice post! (And timely ... I needed a pick-me-up.) Honestly, I don't have anything to recommend to you as far as a next course. I'm sure they're out there ... just nothing pops to my mind. Perhaps someone else in this thread could recommend something? Do you want to learn how to work with a data store like Azure as the back end? I know some have used client-side databases, even HTML5's local storage feature. Or are you looking for media-type examples that usually don't have "data" per se?
re: Code in Word ... agreed ... I don't have that today, however in future series I'm definitely taking steps to include more textual resources for easy review, translation, copy & pasting, etc.
Creating Your First HTML5 Web Page - 02
3 days ago@Ebony:Very nice, thanks for watching!
Part 9: Data Binding to the RecipeDataSource.cs
3 days ago@Coolrw3: I'm sure there are some examples out there, but I don't know of any. I would have to spend some time on Bing.com and pour over a lot of code to find what I needed. If you're a C# developer, chances are, you already have the skills to do this ... you simply need to decide HOW you'll do it ... how will you store the data? How will you dynamically add the data to the project? How will you retrieve the data and deserialize it into objects in your app. I'll bet you could figure it out if you don't have an example to pull from.
Part 9: Data Binding to the RecipeDataSource.cs
3 days ago@Coolrw3: I believe you can limit the number of items you display. The Windows Store (C#) Grid App Template does this by default ... see the SampleDataSource.cs, beginning in line 133 ... here they create a public property that will ONLY reveal 12 items, and spend a lot of code managing which 12 items will be displayed (you may not need all of that complexity). You could limit that to just 6 or 1 if you like.
Series Introduction - 01
5 days ago@M Sirait Freddy From Porsea: Hi Sirat, thank you! I'm glad you find my work helpful.
re: Java, no, I know absolutely nothing about Java. There's so much opportunity and so much to learn in the Windows development and web development world that I can barely keep up with that! So, unfortunately, you can't know it all and I've decided to go "all in" on Microsoft.
Where to Go From Here - 21
May 08, 2013 at 12:35 PM@Andy: Good question. I justify it like this ... Bootstrap is meant to work on all browsers TODAY. Tomorrow (in the future) as market share for browsers dwindle, and HTML5 & CSS3 is more common place, I would hope that Bootstrap would deprecate / refactor its implementation.
Also, from a practicality standpoint, I speak in terms of ideals. To achieve more complex layouts, some DIVs are inescapable. And, there's nothing wrong with the DIV per se ... it DOES have a semantic meaning in HTML5. I don't think it should be your "go to tag" when in doubt ... I think that is what div-itis is addressing.
Check out this example page:
http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/examples/hero.html
(View its source)
Clearly there are a lot of Divs and Spans around that top-most navigation area. It has to be built using something, and I'm not sure there's a good semantic tag for all that stuff, like the drop down list, etc.
Below that, there are columns with a heading and text. Perhaps there's something better for that, but it seems like a valid use of Divs in that case.
So, I agree with you (and with myself from this series) ... you should attempt to reduce the abuse of the div tag, but you're going to need it. I wish I had a better answer.
Part 1: Series Introduction
May 08, 2013 at 5:32 AM@karabo: Is this a project for a class or something? I'm not familiar with that exact terminology ... can you describe the functionality you want to build?
Part 15: Enabling Semantic Zoom
May 07, 2013 at 6:50 AM@alice: I'd be happy to help if I can, but I'll need more details. Was your project working correctly prior to this lesson? Can you isolate the code you wrote and verify that you typed it in correctly? An errant curly brace or CSS selector could make a big impact on how things appear on screen. Can you check your work against the actual Hands On Lab document that I'm following to make sure your code matches theirs? Again, I will try to help you get past this ... just let me know.
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