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DevOps and PaaS The roles of development and operations staff have become more tightly coupled in recent years on account of a number of things. Firstly, agile project methodologies and the adoption of micro-services have shortened release cycles and accelerated...
Bing for Business gives you the power of web search but for your own company information Even after all these years of intranets, SharePoint sites and wikis, most employees still turn to web search rather than internal tools to find...
At first glance, governance may seem out of place here on the Code Matters tech blog for developers. This is a topic that mostly concerned operations in the past and had little to do with coding or the applications themselves....
The Lustleigh Cleave is a deep valley on Dartmoor through which the River Bovey flows. It’s not far from the Grey Matter offices in Ashburton. I live on the edge of the Cleave which is now heavily wooded and designated...
Introduction Microsoft have been busy, working hard on the Bing Maps v8 Web Control and adding rich new functionality. One of the more recent additions to the Bing Maps ecosystem is the Distance Matrix API. The API was just released...
Introduction We’ve covered the Distance Matrix and Truck Routing APIs in the last articles and now it’s time to turn our attention to the Isochrone API. The API contains many features, some of which allow you to: determine optimal travel-times...
Get your own version of Bing or just tap the power of search in your app Want to put a customised web search on your own site or in an app? Microsoft is about to launch the Bing Custom Search...
Bing Maps has a range of new APIs that give you everything from travel times to truck routes. It has also improved the coverage of many of its REST services so they have information for more parts of the world....
We’ve put Code Matters in place to provide a feed of technical information to assist our customers with their systems modernisation projects. The content will be contributed by leading industry experts and will consist of code snippets, demos, play books,...
The new Bing Maps v8 control launched last year with new map styles and new visualisations. Now it’s getting more map views and five new services, four of them new APIs previewed in the Cognitive Services Labs, with documentation already...
Microsoft continues to add more features to what UWP apps can do in Windows 10, and the tools for creating them; at the Build conference we saw updated APIs for working with ink and Surface Dial, new ways of connecting...
The Microsoft Cognitive Services are APIs that let you use AI services like face recognition, speaker recognition and translation without having to build your own machine learning systems. Uber uses them to check that drivers aren’t letting friends pick up...
What’s new for debugging in Visual Studio It’s easy to stay in your IDE all the time when you’re working with code that’s running on your local machine, and Visual Studio 2017 has plenty of new debugging features to...
Visual Studio already has an Android emulator that runs on Windows, and an iOS simulator for Windows, but that works by connecting to a Mac and opening the simulator there. At the Build conference Microsoft unveiled Xamarin Live Player, a...
When the preview of Visual Studio for Mac was announced at Microsoft’s online developer event, Connect, in 2016, it was based on the existing Xamarin Studio for Mac OS and it only for developing mobile apps. The release version announced at...
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