Visual Studio Code Tips and Tricks
Friday, February 24, 2017
Visual Studio Code has quickly replaced Sublime as my editor of choice. Well, second only to Visual Studio itself that is. Code is very customizable. To the point that I have different configurations on each of my main computers. Kind of a drag. Anyway, Microsoft has put together quite the list of Tips and Tricks for using Visual Studio Code. It can be found on GitHub . This should be recommended reading for all users of Visual Studio Code.…
Bower is Dead
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Starting from a blank piece of paper or an empty notepad can be a daunting task. Where do I start? How do I get to the productive place? Most of the help that I find on the Internet start with, “Run these 15 npm install commands and then copy this code into these files.” Sure, doing that gets you to someone’s productive place, but rarely does it get me to my productive place.…
Microsoft Surface Touch Keyboard
Sunday, November 1, 2015
This week was a big week for Microsoft. The Surface Pro 4 and the Surface Book came out. Along with them came a host of new accessories including a new Type Cover for the Surface Pro 4. This keyboard/cover is also compatible with the Surface Pro 3 and that is why I was so excited about it and got one. As I may have mentioned earlier, this keyboard is full size chicklet style and utilizes Microsoft’s vast knowledge of building keyboards.…
Links of the Week
Sunday, November 1, 2015
The first link I have this week is Future Visions by Microsoft. It is a collection of original science fiction stories based on projects currently being researched in Microsoft Research. It isn’t available until November 17th, 2015, but it promises to be really good. I’ll be sure to add this to my reading list. The second link I have is Small Basic from Microsoft. My daughter came to me earlier this week and said she wanted to learn how to program.…
Links of the Week
Sunday, October 25, 2015
I don’t have thousands of tabs open in my browser like some people do, but I do tend to save things I want to read for later. I then like to spend some time on Saturday going through the tabs and see what there is to learn. This week I thought I’d share the experience with you my dear readers. My first tab is a blog post titled, “Mastering the Arcane Art of JavaScript-mancy for C# Developers .…
Surface Pro 4
Monday, October 19, 2015
Yesterday at a Microsoft Store I got to play with a Surface Pro 4 for a little bit. It is exactly what I feared, a worthy replacement for my Surface Pro 3. It is fast, and although the screen is just a little bit bigger, the resolution on it is amazing. It feels solid and is just a little bit thinner than the Surface Pro 3. All in all I’d say it is an amazing computer.…
New Surface Computers
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Microsoft released some new Surface computers quietly this week. The new machines include a new Surface Pro 3 with 128GB storage on an Intel core i7 processor. Color me surprised when I was in a Microsoft store and saw the list of available machines include this. I personally have the 256GB core i7 model and it is a spectacular machine. Also released this week are the Surface 3’s with 4G capability.…
Build 2015
Sunday, May 3, 2015
This year marks the 4th year that I have gone to the Microsoft //build/ conference. I had to miss last year due to some mix-up at work, but that’s in the past. Every year seems to try and outdo the previous year and this was no different. This year some announcements were made that blew many people away. I was not one of them. I did find many of the sessions were very useful and made the whole conference great.…
Windows 8.1 Update
Saturday, May 31, 2014
I’m a little late to the party of writing about Windows 8.1 Update, but I wanted to get a fair result. My initial thoughts on it were that I didn’t like any of the improvements they made for keyboard and mouse users. Until a couple days ago when I was forced to use Windows 8.1 long enough to install the Update. I have to concede that the keyboard and mouse improvements are wonderful.…
Build 2014 an outsider's summary
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
I was unable to go to BUILD this year, and that made me pretty sad. This year’s theme was “Cloud First; Mobile First.” - but wait, how can both be first? Well, that’s the question they wanted you to ask. So instead let’s ask, “What about desktop?” You see //build (yes I’m going to type it every way I can) was about 2 things this year: Azure (now called Microsoft Azure) and Windows Phone 8.…