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.
  • In this article, Chris Williams presents MonoGame as the modern, open-source successor to Microsoft's XNA framework, enabling cross-platform game development beyond Microsoft devices. He details MonoGame's evolution from XNA, its broad platform support, and offers a practical guide for setting up the development environment, creating basic game projects, rendering text and images, handling input, and implementing animations. Through hands-on examples, Williams aims to em...See More
  • 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.