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Replacing your Parse hosted mobile backend

Hello developers! As you might have heard, Facebook is shutting down their mobile app development platform Parse which stirred some mixed emotions among developers out there. Parse was indeed a great a toolkit for creating and running mobile apps. Developers used Parse hosting as the backend for their mobile apps between push notifications, storage and analytics. If you are looking for a replacement to that backend, a rather good one, you might want to try out Azure App Service For FREE!. App Service is…

Multi-User Access in Windows Dev Center

Hello Developers! Earlier this month, Microsoft released an update to the Dev Center that includes several new capabilities and improvements. With this release comes one of the most requested features:  “Multi-user access” and…… wait for it….. with roles!!! This feature is perfect for scenarios like having a project outsourced and solution provider has to submit a package/publish the app and you don’t want to end up giving that provider your credentials and change these later. Now you can add multiple dev users…

Skill Up for 5$

Hello! I thought I’d spread the word. From 17th December 2015 into the New Year, Packt Publishing is inviting the tech world to explore its extensive library of eBooks and Video courses for one amazing price. The books are listed under the Skill Up titles.  Every single eBook and Video course Packt has ever created will be available on packtpub.com for just $5 (Yes! you heard right)!  My title JavaScript Promises Essentials will be a part of this sale…

Hack Productivity with Microsoft Office 365

The Microsoft Office 365 team is challenging developers and makers across the globe to use Microsoft Office 365 APIs and Add-ins to boost productivity in every area of your life. Hack Productivity, a new online hackathon from Microsoft with $32,500 in prizes for apps that help people make stuff happen — with ease 🙂 Hack Productivity gives developers access to the Office 365 APIs for mail, calendar, contacts, photo/video, and files so they can create tech solutions that…

Meet X-Tag a Microsoft driven Open Source JavaScript Library

Hello! Just wanted to share with you a newly released “Awesome” JavaScript Library. X-Tag is a Microsoft supported, open source, JavaScript library that wraps the W3C standard Web Components family of APIs to provide a compact, feature-rich interface for rapid component development.While X-Tag offers feature hooks for all Web Component APIs (Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, Templates, and HTML Imports), it only requires Custom Element support to operate. As a fallback mechanism, X-Tag also uses a set…

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