If you plan your days using Google Calendar, you’ll be happy to know that the company’s Sync team has now made it possible to show appointments from multiple calendars on your Windows Phone 7.5 (thanks, fellas!). To add them, just go to m.google.com/sync on your phone. Once you’ve logged in, select your device and the calendars you want to sync (you can choose up to 25—if you’re really that organized). Tap Save and you’re done! Note that your new calendars won’t show up until your phone’s next (...)

Utiliser Windows Phone ne veut pas dire qu’on ne peut utiliser que Bing. En effet, même si le système d’exploitation mobile de Microsoft est excellent, on aime avoir nos petites habitudes et il faut reconnaître que Google reste toujours le numéro 1 de la recherche. Google a d’ailleurs lancé une nouvelle initiative qui est visible lorsque l’on se rend sur le site avec Internet Explorer 9 pour mobile. Il est en effet possible d’épingler Google sur la page d’accueil de Continuez la lecture de (...)

If you’ve used Chrome on more than one device, you’ve probably noticed that Chrome just isn’t the same when you’re not on your main computer. You don’t have all your bookmarks, apps, and extensions. Your settings aren’t quite right, you have to retype all your saved passwords, and your omnibox doesn’t know which sites you visit often. Today’s Beta release fixes all that. Signing in to Chrome enables sync and brings your Chrome bookmarks and other personalized settings to all of your computers. (...)

A year and a half ago, we released completely new document, spreadsheet and drawing editors. Google Docs has been picking up speed ever since with more than 60 new features and millions of new users. Today we’re rounding out the suite by previewing a new version of presentations with faster collaboration and more features. A collaborative approach Presentations are made to be shared—whether it’s presenting your thesis to your professors or inspiring colleagues at a conference. And the best (...)

With everybody going mobile, we could not stay behind. This meant we had to create an Android application, because we (Bram Neijt, Arno den Hond and your chronicler) do not own one of them fancy iPhones. Also, Android is way cooler. To begin our journey to become Android developers, we decided to create Quizzz: an app to help you learn the names of your colleagues. Because we felt a little uncomfortable putting everyone’s picture in the Android appstore, we decided to use pictures of (...)

9 juin 2011By Dr. Francois Druel Comme c’est le cas à chaque fois, la dernière keynote d’Apple (le 6 juin dernier) a fait l’objet d’un buzz important avant l’évennement et sucité un grand nombre d’analyses depuis. Chacun dissèque, essaye de comprendre, présente les enjeux des innovations de la marque à la pomme. Je ne reviens pas sur la forme très particulière de ces keynotes, véritables actions de communication et de vente qui suivent un scénario très précis et qui appliquent des méthodes d’une (...)

Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 12:00:00 AM Tags: iPhone, WP7, Porting, language, C# In the previous chapter, we looked at the user interface guidelines for WP7 applications. We will now dive deeper into what it takes to implement a WP7 application. In this chapter, we will look at the various C# features that map to the most common Objective-C features. We will provide code snippets which will ease your way into C# code. We will point to the key C# features that help (...)

Update - 6/9/2011: WP7 to Android API Mapping to is now available Assuming you are a happy coder, the joy of developing software all comes down to a few things: Building something cool that users will enjoy Getting rewards from users and recognition from peers Learning how to solve new challenges and build novel features. Even if you have a solid expertise on a particular platform/language, I think it is essential to be a “polyglot” developer. In other words, you might have a native or (...)

If you didn't already think your smartphone knows too much about you, here's a handy reminder. A duo of UK researchers have uncovered a worrying (and oddly enough, undocumented) feature in iOS 4: it asks your iPhone to record your location constantly, then timestamps that data and records it for posterity. Without alerting you that it's doing it and without asking for permission. The bigger trouble with this unsolicited location tracking is that the hidden file that holds the data is (...)

Titanium is not a wrapper around a web view as stated before (though that accurately explains how Phonegap works). Jeff's answer, linked in the question, is a technically correct explanation of how Titanium works, but here's the best version I've heard so far, from Marshall Culpepper: It's true that Titanium Mobile used the WebView (in both Android and iOS) in the pre-1.0 days. However, this is no longer true and hasn't been since our 1.0 release is March 2010. Since 1.0, we've shipped (...)

UPDATE 05/02/2012 : A la suite de la fuite d'une partie des fonctionnalités qui seront apportées par la mise à jour Apollo, c'est au tour de Paul Thurrott (journaliste) de délier sa langue sur son blog. Ce dernier confirme une bonne partie des fonctionnalités listées dans l'article original, en apportant toutefois quelques détails : Skype en native sur Windows Phone, un rêve, juste un rêve ? Paul Thurrott : "L'application Skype, encore séparée mais meilleure et pas intégrée Continuez la lecture (...)

Joe Belfiore explains Windows Phone 8 The team over at PocketNow, claim to have uncovered a video featuring Joe Belfiore, senior VP and Windows Phone manager, detailing Windows Phone 8 features and hardware specifications, intended for Nokia and their partners. (more…) Check out more : Windows Phone Apps | Windows Phone Games

  The official Kinect for WIndows SDK is out and you can grab it here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/kinectforwindows/develop/overview.aspx     The k

On January 9th, Steve Ballmer announced at CES that we would be shipping Kinect for Windows on February 1st.  I am very pleased to report that today version 1.0 of our SDK and runtime were made available for download, and distribution partners in our twelve launch countries are starting to ship Kinect for Windows hardware, enabling companies to start to deploy their solutions. The suggested retail price is $249, and later this year, we will offer special academic pricing of $149 for (...)

Disclaimer Dans quelques jours je vais avoir la chance de rencontrer les équipes de développement de windows phone à Redmond pour évoquer le futur de windows phone, je profite donc d’être vierge de tout cela, pour parler tout de suite ma vision du futur. Cet article est donc basé sur mes idées et souhaits de la plateforme, aucunement d’informations provenant de microsoft. Quand ? Bientôt ! Depuis le début, il était prévu une mise à jour par an, alternant mise à jour mineur et une mise à jour majeur, (...)

Voici les meilleurs moments de la première journée à Le Web’11 sélectionnés rien que pour vous ! Au programme de cette première journée à LeWeb’11, des invités de prestige à commencer par l’ouverture de LeWeb’11 avec Karl Lagarfeld et Loic le Meur suivi d’entrepreneurs et de représentants de grandes sociétés (Google, Facebook…). Karl Lagarfeld, Designer et photographe, a fait l’ouverture de LeWeb’11 avec ses nombreux iPhone et son iPad. Il faut surtout retenir que Karl Lagarfeld ouvrira une boutique en ligne, (...)

Si vous êtes en train de lire ce post à 23h, au travail, devant votre écran d’ordinateur, à corriger les bugs de votre application dont vous aimeriez bien terminer la mise en production, alors sauvez vos qualités de vie, gagnez en sérénité, ne vous énervez plus contre vous-même, ni votre ordinateur, venez vous avez sûrement besoin d’une formation sur le développement piloté par les tests. Le « Test Driven Development » est une pratique de développement issue d’eXtreme Programming, dont le but consiste (...)

9 juin 2011By Dr. Francois Druel Comme c’est le cas à chaque fois, la dernière keynote d’Apple (le 6 juin dernier) a fait l’objet d’un buzz important avant l’évennement et sucité un grand nombre d’analyses depuis. Chacun dissèque, essaye de comprendre, présente les enjeux des innovations de la marque à la pomme. Je ne reviens pas sur la forme très particulière de ces keynotes, véritables actions de communication et de vente qui suivent un scénario très précis et qui appliquent des méthodes d’une (...)

According to Bloomberg, Microsoft is paying Nokia $1 billion to adopt Windows Phone. Microsoft Corp. will pay Nokia Oyj more than $1 billion to promote and develop Windows-based handsets as part of their smartphone software agreement, according to two people with knowledge of the terms. Nokia will pay Microsoft a fee for each copy of Windows used in its phones, costs that will be offset as Nokia curtails its own budget for software research and development, said one of the people, who (...)

Critique du livre « Partageons ce qui nous départage » publié par OCTO Technology 28 janvier 2011 Sympa et rafraichissant le dernier livre d’OCTO Technology, « Partageons ce qui nous départage« . Je vais éviter de tomber dans le mode « cirage de pompe » ou dans le mode « je me prends pour un critique de livre » pour essayer de vous raconter en toute objectivité ce que j’ai retenu du livre. Déjà, c’est bien écrit. Ensuite cela se lit bien et vite. Est-ce que c’est le nouveau « Rework » ? Pas sûr. Mais (...)

As the interface between Development and Operations, Application Release Management1 handles information that is highly relevant to your Release and Operations teams. Selecting an Application Release Automation solution that provides insight and analytics from both perspectives is thus a key component of an effective DevOps strategy. Here, we explain how Deployit‘s Infrastructure and new Release Overview features help you achieve this goal. Continuous Delivery & the Release (...)

My motto regarding innovation is: being a first mover is a strategic choice, moving fast isn’t. Agile and scrum can help you move fast, so how can it accommodate innovation? Getting a view on innovation When a company fills in a portfolio tool like a Boston Consulting Group (BCG) matrix, it gets a view on its product market combination (PMC) portfolio. You can tell a lot about the company and its business from how a BCG matrix (*) develops over time. One of the most fun things in my eyes (...)

Whether the driver is Agile, Cloud or DevOps1, or a “plain old” efficiency drive or process improvement initiative, forward-thinking organisations are currently looking for ways to improve their application release processes through automation. In an area where manual activities are still all too common, it’s unsurprising that the initial focus has been on automating the deployment execution – moving all the bits to the right places. What early adopters have learnt is that, at the enterprise (...)

Scrum and the Kanban method use different forces to achieve this same goal of creating the most possible value over time for the organization by continuously inspecting and adapting the processes and tools. In Scrum the main forces are the time boxed Sprints and the cross-functional team. In the Kanban method the main forces are visualizing work and limit the work-in-process (WIP). Scrum In Scrum the main forces for improvements are achieved by the time boxed Sprints and the (...)

Scrum and the Kanban method use different forces to achieve this same goal of creating the most possible value over time for the organization by continuously inspecting and adapting the processes and tools. In Scrum the main forces are the time boxed Sprints and the cross-functional team. In the Kanban method the main forces are visualizing work and limit the work-in-process (WIP). Scrum In Scrum the main forces for improvements are achieved by the time boxed Sprints and the (...)