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Don’t you wish sometimes that you had a crystal ball showing you what technology is coming down the pipe and if it’s going to disrupt your status quo? It would just make life so much easier. No more guessing what the CIO is going to insist be deployed ASAP just because he read about it in PC…

Listen in as Tim Huckaby, Founder of InterKnowlogy, and Ian Muir, Web Application Architect for Piehead Productions, discuss the latest technologies released which allow for a smooth design and development work stream.About IanIan Muir is self-proclaimed Web Uber Geek and is currently working for…

Developers interested in integrating Skype into their applications can now request access to Skype’s new SDK, called SkypeKit. Available in beta format as of June 14th, the Windows version of the developer’s kit works on Windows x86 operating systems. Access to the kit is on an invite-only basis at…

Microsoft just launched a free, lightweight development tool called WebMatrix which is designed to make Web development easy for professional developers. It installs a Web server (IIS Developer Express), a database (SQL Server Compact) and a Web framework (ASP.NET) in one 15 MB package (or 50 MB if…

Developers take note, the Bing Search Library for PHP has arrived and with it, you now have a simple way to submit queries and retrieve results from the Bing Engine via the Bing API. The results you fetch back can then be used in your own PHP application. To get started, all you need is the code…

At the Next Web Conference in Amsterdam, the Windows Live Messenger team announced “Messenger Connect,” a brand-new collection of APIs for Windows Live Messenger. The Messenger Connect API actually ties together APIs that have been around for awhile, including the Windows Live ID, Contacts API,…

In case you missed the news, the Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook was released last week during the SXSW conference that took place in Austin, Texas. The new toolkit, built by Thuzi in collaboration with Microsoft, lets developers create Facebook applications which are hosted on Windows…

Game developers attending GDC this week will get a first look at the latest version of the XNA toolkit – XNA Game Studio 4.0 – which provides the technology to create games for Xbox 360, Windows, and now, the Windows Phone 7 Series. Shawn Hargreaves posted on his blog about what’s new with this…

Since the announcement of the Windows Phone 7 Series, a new mobile operating system that provides a completely refreshed look-and-feel (and back-end!) for Windows Mobile devices, many developers have been asking how they can get started building applications for this new OS. As John Mullinax, a…

In this episode, guest Mark Pollack joins Peter to discuss the Spring.NET application framework. In a world driven by POJOs and POCOs, Mark tells us about how he originally created Spring.NET for a team of Java developers to enable a similar development experience in .NET.  Since then, the…