A bit overdue, but I just realized I never really announced the APIMASH project we’ve been working on. It’s up on github. The purpose of the project is to illustrate how to go about constructing a mashup application from a variety of data sources. We’re adding to the project all the time, and have both…
Month: July 2013
Building for Cost Part 2
In the last post, we looked at ways to separate content using different pieces of Windows Azure for the benefit of creating a more cost-effective solution using Windows Azure Web Sites (WAWS) and Windows Azure Storage for storing images and other binary/static files. Although we’re looking at this just for cost efficacy, frankly that approach…
Building for Cost using Windows Azure
One of the great advantages of having a green field cloud-based infrastructure is being able tailor the app using specific features of the platform. Sometimes, cost isn’t an issue. But, many times – particularly for indie devs – it is. Scale isn’t the foremost concern here, and often times dependability isn’t, either. Rather, it’s flexibility…
Windows 8 to 8.1 App Considerations: Screen Size
One of the most frequent questions/concerns I’m seeing in community is: what application changes do I need to consider for Windows 8.1 development? Is there anything I should be doing today in my Win8 apps to make it easy to move to 8.1 in the future? There’s a ton of great info that came out…
Creating a Great Mashup Part 3
This post details features used by Earthquake Explorer, a Windows 8 app that displays earthquake information on Bing maps. Earthquake Explorer was based off of the Earthquakes mashup starter kit on github. Read part 1 here. Read part 2 here. We left off Part 2 talking about creating a compelling live tile in Windows 8. …