SRT Solutions Trains LLamasoft Software Developers on C#

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – MAY 30, 2012 – ANN ARBOR, MICH. — SRT Solutions, a software development, research and training company, recently began work with

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SRT Solutions Hires John Lucas as Creative Director

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – ANN ARBOR, MICH. – FEBRUARY 28, 2012 – SRT Solutions recently added John D. Lucas to its team as its creative

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Storyboard Custom Segue For Custom PushViewController Animation

While there are a lot of google hits when searching for custom pushViewController Animation, I found nothing regarding use of a Custom Segue to make it reusable and I also found a lot of misinformation like “it can’t be done … Continue reading

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Build MVVM Applications in F#… or C#

Last month Chris Marinos had an article in MSDN Magazine titled “Build MVVM Applications in F#” I liked it a lot. I jotted down some notes as I read it. My learning processed amused me as I went from WTF… … Continue reading

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Where Windows Is Going

I’ve been stewing for about a day. I did not go to Build Conference. Once I figured out that WinRT is for Metro style apps and ONLY Metro style apps, and I tried to make a call from a .NET … Continue reading

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Build Windows Day 2 From Afar: WTF is WinRT

Watching the developer reaction to Metro style and WinRT has been both depressing and comical. I suppose its like watching anyone else learn something from nothing. We can get it very wrong at first. It is part of our learning … Continue reading

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Thoughts after the Build Windows keynote: This changes nothing

Nothing has changed, and this is a good thing. Here is what I took away from yesterdays keynote: Everything I’m doing today with Windows desktop apps will work on Windows 8. No surprise there. If I want to write these … Continue reading

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Writing Software is not Comparable to Using a Hammer

I’m going to rant. Take a look at the first two paragraphs and bullet list here: http://www.peteonsoftware.com/index.php/2011/08/23/programming-language-skills/ Which part of programming is as simple as using a hammer, a manual saw, a table saw, a router, a clamp? I’d argue … Continue reading

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Are Access Modifiers Antiquated?

I just wrote a rather lengthy reply to a Programmers StackExchange question which I’d summarize as “why are the types and or methods I want to extend often sealed in common Java and .NET frameworks and libraries?” Its actually titled … Continue reading

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Programming Summer Camp

I went to summer camp orientation over the weekend for my elementary school aged children. I muttered to my husband afterward that I thought that

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