How Microsoft is betting everything on Tablets

It has become clear over the past few years, that the Post PC era, while not yet upon us, is closing in. With smartphone penetration over 35%, and 1 in 3 in the US owning tablets by 2015 Microsoft clearly...

Thoughts on Windows 8, and the Metro UI

Microsoft is betting heavily on Metro and the Metro UI, however I feel that this is misguided attempt at one interface to rule them all. Creating a brand new API WinRT, and a whole new way to develop applications has...

How I became twice as productive

Though I had known about about 2x speed button on the iPod application forever, however the two times I ha tried to use it I found it hard to listen to. What I always said I needed was a 1.5...

5 Geeky Things I Love

Rdio Instant access to millions of tunes. Amazing value for money. PhpStorm Makes programming in PHP a joy again. Kindle The readability and the weight are what makes this the killer ebook reader. iPhone Ok, maybe some of the glow...

MSBuild Shell Extension

After MSBuildShellExtension stopped getting developed (so that it won’t really build .Net 4.0 any more, even with a fair bit of fiddling), and after trying MSBuild Launch pad and not digging it, I figured why go all high tech and...