Category: Research and development
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Medical Band Alert
MedicalBandAlert is intuitive, visual, easy to setup and use prescribed-medication reminder. With just a few simple steps, you can add a medications and get reminders on your phone and on your Microsoft Band.
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Reserve your Windows 10 upgrade today!
It time to start counting… Finally Microsoft announced some info about Windows 10 price and release date. It’s official: Windows 10 is coming on July 29 as a free upgrade to Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users (for one year). Some information about retailer’s prices and shipping date crossed the network with release date around a month later.…
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Designing a Beautiful REST API with JSON (Finalization)
In my previous post I wrote about how to design a beautiful REST API and now is time to finalize the API description with ideas about additional functionality needed in order to achieve the goal for a functional design. Meta Data One of the most important elements is to deliver to the client all needed URLs in…
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How to do URL routing (MOD_REWRITE) for both IIS and Apache
Usually I work on Windows OS with IIS and then I publish the smaller apps on shared hosting. This is why I hate making complicated configuration adding a lot of regular expression strings to route. The mod_rewrite Apache module is one of a webmaster’s most valuable tools. It allowing you to manipulate URLs in countless ways.…
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Designing a Beautiful REST API with JSON
There is a lot of documentation about how to build REST API using JSON formatted data in internet and I will try to summarize a little bit what I gather as knowledge about what is the right way to build RESTful API with JSON. Why we use APIs? Building APIs allows you to clear application layers…
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LightSwitch with Oracle Data Source (part 2)
External login and global parameters In the previous part I mentioned I’m working on existing database, changing the application administration. One of the issues I have to solve is using the existing authentication. LightSwith has build in authentication, but it uses .NET Role and Membership providers and they are not solution we choose for Oracle…
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LightSwitch with Oracle Data Source
I have several products based on Oracle Databases with some not so easy to extend administrations. Most of those projects have to be extended with new functionalities according to the current user experience level. People want to use pads and mobile phones to run their business from anywhere. Oracle released Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC 11.2 Release 5) with Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio…
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FoSearch
Sing in Your app is in the Windows Store! Congratulations! FoSearch, release 1 is now in the Windows Store. Use this link to your app’s listing in the Windows Store to let others know about your app. http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/app/fosearch/dcd4488b-888a-4ffb-8c81-d572cdf7fb9e Because we just added your app to the Windows Store, it might take some time before your…
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SQLite for WinRT
Developing applications for Windows Phone was made easy because of the SQL Server CE database build in the operating system. The SQL Server CE database operated with relational single file databases, build runtime inside the application isolated storage. SQL Server CE is not build into Windows 8 or Windows 8 RT. Building Metro Style applications can’t use SQL Server CE because it…
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VS Lightswitch to Oracle
Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Lightswitch release 2 with HTML5 client offers a cross browser solution for any business oriented web-application. With the ability to build fast and flexible solutions for both desktop and tablet PCs. In one of the current projects I wanted to create a Lightswitch solution working with existing Oracle database. First, I tried to…