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Microservices DevOps – New Course

Deploying and monitoring real-world microservices requires a thorough knowledge of Microservices DevOps. In my new course, Microservices DevOps you will learn how to deploy and monitor your microservices.

First, you will learn how to configure continuous deployment. before exploring the key deployment patterns that we can use before discovering how we monitor our Microservices. Finally, you will…

Implementing Azure Cognitive Services for Language – New Course

Today I’m excited to announce the release of our latest course.  Implementing Azure Cognitive Services for Language.

In the course you will:

Identify language, intent, entities, and key phrases in the text to process the user’s input and perform sentiment analysis

Detect language and translate text across more than 60 languages to provide real-time translation in your application

Identify profane…

Microsoft Azure Bing Spell Check API now on Pluralsight

Well after a few months hard work, my first Pluralsight course: Microsoft Azure Bing Spell Check API is now available on Pluralsight.

Providing real time spelling and grammar correction that works across multiple languages (and is always learning) can really make your application stand out and enhance the experience of your users. In this course, Microsoft Cognitive Services: Bing Spell Check…

And so it begins

Well after a few years off I’ve decided to start blogging again.  What’s brought this on I hear you ask?  Well pull up a chair and let me explain…

About 5 years ago I quite my job and started out as freelance software developer.  This was a big change in my life and I’ve learnt a lot over the past few years.  I’ve gone from having a fairly narrow skill set as a WPF developer to being a multi…

Have a Fabulous February with WordEditor

To celebrate the release of the new and updated WordEditor, we have reduced the price!

You can now get WordEditor for Windows 8.1 for the amazing price of £0.99

We’re going to keep the price low until the end of February so head over to the Windows Store and grab a copy now.

WordEditor – Update

Well it’s taken a while but there is now a new version of WordEditor available for Windows 8.1

The latest version of WordEditor has some amazing new features like comments, find and replace and searching as well as much more under the hood.

What’s new?

Support for comments. Add remove and cycle through a documents comments.

Advanced searching capabilities. Including case matching, regular…

Promoting your mobile apps

I’ve been meeting more and more app entrepreneurs who have made it in the app world without spending a penny on promoting their app. And I’ve known entrepreneurs who’ve earned more than a million dollars selling their app, largely promoting it for free. Some have made use of press publicity and some generated a lot of buzz on social media. While some manually recruited customers, others had…

Warrior Smash – Christmas Competition

To celebrate the launch of Warrior Smash for iPhone, today were launching our festive Warrior Smash tournament.

The rules are simple.  Download and play Warrior Smash and whoever has the highest score at midnight (GMT)  on Christmas Eve wins a £50 iTunes gift card.

We will send you a friend request in Game Center and sort out the prize.

We also have some spot prizes right through December so get…

Warrior Smash – IOS

I’m please to be able to announce that Warrior Smash is now available for the iPhone.

Match the troops to smash the links in this classically frustrating puzzle game.  Warrior Smash is amazingly addictive and ridiculously hard and there are loads of levels to keep you smashing for hours so just match them up and watch them burn.

With built in support for Game Center you can see how your score…

Tidal Hours Calculator for IOS 8

An exciting piece of news is that we have recently started work on a range of apps for the iPhone and iPad.  This is our first venture into IOS development as we have traditionally focused on Microsoft development.  With the release of IOS 8 and the new Swift programming language, we thought now was a good time to make the switch.  Plus we have lots of exciting idea’s that we think would just…

App Promotion Press Release Template

Doing your own PR actually isn’t too hard. When writing the announcement, put yourself in your customers’ shoes and focus the content on what’s in it for them and why they should use your app. Then send it to numerous media outlets, bloggers, writers, and review sites (shoot for ones with readership of at least 5K). • Many news sites that cover tech, including Mashable, Techcrunch, Business…

Microsoft Windows App Promotion Kit (UK)

Microsoft have release an App Promotion kit for their US developers only as part of their App Builder program.

Quite why this is only available in the US is beyond me but I have managed to get hold of a copy and have made it available for everyone to enjoy.

The App Promotion Kit includes: • App Promotion 101 e-book • App promotion assets and templates: Banner ad templates App announcement email…

Windows 8.1 Fails to create a profile for a new user account

Last week we came across several machines that would failed to create a user profile when we added a new user.  Initially we thought this was an issue with the recent Windows 8.1 updates but it appears that a Visual Studio 2013 update s the culprit.  (KB2932965) actually.

The story is this, you add a new user in the usual way (it doesn’t matter what type of user) and then try to log in.  Your…

Love WordEditor but speak Welsh?

Are you a hard working office type that happens to speak Welsh?  No?  What about Bulgarian? What you don’t speak Bulgarian either!  Ok ok what about Korean, French, Persian?

Well it doesn’t matter anyway because now WordEditor supports them all and many more as well.  In fact WordEditor now supports 39 languages including Welsh!

WordEditor is used the world over and we thought it about time we…

WordEditor release 5 now available

We’ve just recieved notification that WordEditor release 5 has passed Certification and will be available for download later today.

To grab a copy of WordEditor just head to http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/app/wordeditor/478f88d5-d6fb-4c13-bf92-5a512a277ede

Whats new in Windows 8.1 update 1

It’s fair to say that much of the surprise Windows 8.1 Update 1 was ruined by leaks, including the final version of the code, which has indeed been floating around out there for several weeks. But no matter: Update 1 matters, and is the clearest indication yet that Microsoft remains committed to listening to feedback and righting the wrongs of the original release of Windows 8.

How we got here

We…

We’re excited to be able to announce that we are now offering an exclusive range of discounts and products specifically for members of the Microsoft BizSpark program.

Head over to Microsoft.com/bizspark and sign in for more information.