Using C#, Xamarin and SkiaSharp to Delight and Amaze (Across Platforms) Graham Murray / Mon, Apr 10, 2017 What is SkiaSharp? Cross platform development can be tricky, especially with mobile platforms involved. You could avoid it entirely by just building a separate app per platform, but that is neither...
Internationalizing and Localizing .NET Desktop Applications DevToolsGuy / Thu, Jan 26, 2017 Introduction This blog will provide examples of internationalization and localization across two .NET platforms - Windows Forms and WPF. The approaches are similar although the syntax is slightly different...
L10N and I18N Best Practices DevToolsGuy / Wed, Jan 25, 2017 This post will focus on localization and internationalization in software. It will provide some guidance on best practices, as well as what to avoid. If you haven't read my previous blog post introducing...
Introduction to Localization and Internationalization DevToolsGuy / Mon, Jan 23, 2017 Localization and Internationalization: What do these terms mean? Internationalization means making your product flexible enough to be localized to other languages. This includes, but isn't limited to...
Infragistics 16.2 Volume Release Also Brings Improved Help Documentation Experience DevToolsGuy / Fri, Oct 28, 2016 Accompanying the 2016.2 release, we have some significant changes associated with our help documentation. New Online Help Viewer Starting with the help documentation for the 2016.2 release of our...
Why prototyping is not only essential for the design process but for overall product development too DevToolsGuy / Mon, May 16, 2016 Why prototyping is not only essential for the design process but for overall product development too. Developing or building anything new involves a long and complex process and requires real attention...
What is the story behind www.w3fools.com? DevToolsGuy / Thu, Jan 28, 2016 W3Schools is a web developer information website, and its content consists of tutorials and references relating to multiple programming languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQ amongst others. It came into...
The Top 5 Scott Hanselman Videos on the Web DevToolsGuy / Fri, Jan 22, 2016 We don’t hear the word ‘famous’ all too often in the programming world, but by definition, famous is simply “being known by many people”. In that regard, there are some individuals who have a very big...
The Top 8 Habits of Successful Developers DevToolsGuy / Wed, Jan 20, 2016 The desire for success is, arguably, part of our genetic make-up . Being successful means being happy, and pretty much everyone strives for happiness. When we become happy, chemicals in our brains reward...
Top 10 Free Developer Tools: Part 2 DevToolsGuy / Tue, Jan 19, 2016 This post is the second part of a miniseries about the top 10 free developer tools. Here, we'll continue our look at some of the best developer’s tool currently out there and in demand. In part 1 we looked...