Issue: 2014 - November/December

Rod discusses learning from his mistakes.

When your team drastically changes size, you’ll understand Mike’s parallel lessons from writing code.

In this first installment of his new series, Sahil begins writing an end-to-end mobile infrastructure using some familiar tools.

Is dealing with databases on a browser your idea of a bad nightmare? Craig implements an in-browser document database called IndexedDB to create, read, update, and delete large sets of records, just like a database on a server.

Web Forms aren’t going anywhere. Paul shows us how to use HTML 5 and jQuery to keep ASP.NET Web Forms working smoothly.

John installs Git and explores how Git and Visual Studio streamline even a novice’s work.

Dino explains the business layer so that even a seven-year-old can understand.

If you haven’t explored the open source implementation of XNA 4.x API called MonoGame, now’s your chance to see what exciting things are in store for you. Chris takes us there.

Whether you’re familiar with programming in Objective-C or not, you’ll learn something interesting as Mohammad takes a look at the new high-level Swift programming language for the iOS framework.

Ted explores the myth of benchmarking and how to make sure that yours are valid.