Software Engineer

Archive: 02-2013

• Poll: Do you program against Office?

  Answer this one-question poll to let us know whether you program against Office and, if so, how often.

  Posted by Justin James | February 28, 2013, 12:35 AM PST

• Be progressive with Modernizr and ASP.NET 4.5

  Rolling out applications that use HTML5 and CSS3 requires planning and some help via JavaScript. Here’s how Modernizer integrates with ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012.

  Posted by Tony Patton | February 25, 2013, 4:02 PM PST

• Use jQuery to meet users' expectations

  Here are three of the ways Justin James uses jQuery to meet users’ raised expectations about functionality and responsiveness.

  Posted by Justin James | February 22, 2013, 11:53 PM PST

• Poll: How are you handling the changes in .NET?

  The changes in the .NET ecosystem are causing some developers to move to completely different systems. Take this one-question poll to let us know how you’re handling the changes.

  Posted by Justin James | February 21, 2013, 12:31 PM PST

• ASP.NET 4.5 features make upgrade worth the trouble

  Tony Patton gives an overview of the notable features that are available with ASP.NET 4.5.

  Posted by Tony Patton | February 19, 2013, 7:05 AM PST

• Poll: Are you using or learning jQuery?

  Answer our one-question developer poll to let us know whether you are using or learning jQuery.

  Posted by Justin James | February 13, 2013, 5:13 PM PST

• Active Directory authentication in .NET solves one BYOD challenge

  Justin James presents two code samples that show how easy .NET makes it to authenticate against Active Directory.

  Posted by Justin James | February 12, 2013, 6:58 AM PST

• Binary repository for non-developers: 10 things we can learn from the software development community

  Find out how to reap the benefits of the best practices coming out of the agile movement. One trend that is taking developers by storm is socialization.

  Posted by Guest Contributor | February 7, 2013, 2:29 PM PST

• Poll: Which .NET UI tech do you target?

  .NET developers, do you mainly use WinForms, WebForms, WPF/Silverlight, Windows 8 native, or ASP.NET MVC?

  Posted by Justin James | February 6, 2013, 12:02 PM PST

• The enterprise development challenges of BYOD

  Enterprise developers who work in environments that embrace BYOD need to be aware of the issues they might face relating to authentication, screen sizes, security, and more.

  Posted by Justin James | February 5, 2013, 8:27 AM PST