Often I work with remotely distributed teams where some (or all) of the team members are remote and attend meetings virtually. The other day, during a planning games session, a few of the team members were remote and so, in order to facilitate the planning poker sessions, we looked for a web site that would provide the option for the team to all vote within a virtual room. ...
I have finally finished some updates on my first foray into Windows 8 apps. Last summer I uploaded, to the Windows Store, version 1 of my Hacker News App which, using the bigrss feed from Hacker News, displayed the top stories from the popular tech news aggregator. It was pretty basic - it showed comments for each story and allowed the viewer to view the original story. For release 2 I added a couple of new features that I think will make it more useful as well as made a couple of bug fixes and UX improvements. ...
My application can be found in the Windows store. ...
I have been starting to make more and more forays into JavaScript and decided to bite the bullet and look into one of the more popular javascript libraries that allow a full application to be built, end to end with JavaScript. First was deciding what I was going focus on. Initially I started to look at backbone.js but discovered that really, backbone.js was more for handling your view layer better. You still needed some form of server side components. Looking for something more, I turned to node.js. Their website proclaims: ...