Frank's World

• Creating an App Can Change Your Life on Franks World TV

  Tags: FWTV, Windows 8, AppDev

  Feb 5 2013 11:16 PM

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  In this episode of Frank’s World TV, I speak to Scott Lock, co-founder of Inferno Red, about how one app featuring pandas at the National Zoo changed his life. I also have fun with a popular commercial (in honor of the Super Bowl). There are also a few cameos of your favorite evangelists in there …

• Blogging from the Sky

  Tags: Frank's World, Technology

  Feb 1 2013 3:56 PM

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  Now that I’m my way back from Vegas, I have a ton of emails to catch up on.  Since I didn’t take my usual red eye back, I had the chance to try out in-flight internet. I have to say, that while the speeds have not been consistent, I am quite happy with the service. Better yet, since Virgin …

• Vegas

  Tags: Travel, Las Vegas, Funny

  Jan 29 2013 10:50 PM

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  Sometimes a picture from Cheezburger.com is worth a 1000 words: I’m in Las Vegas this week for a work related event. The dogs didn’t come with me, much to their chagrin – I’m sure they’d love the all you can eat buffets. I flew Virgin Atlantic and I wasn’t sure if I was on an airplane or a dance …

• Announcing FranksWorld TV

  Tags: FWTV

  Jan 24 2013 6:07 PM

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  It’s me and I’m on TV, well YouTube.

• How Lasers Work

  Tags: Science, Lasers, Video

  Jan 21 2013 2:47 PM

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  Next time you use a laser pointer, you can appreciate it just a little more.

• Leveraging Data Management for Smarter Government

  Tags: Public Sector, Big Data, Gov2.0

  Jan 10 2013 3:23 PM

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  Valerie Logan, HP worldwide vice president of strategy & portfolio, information management and analytics, discusses how government can lower its costs with technology in this interview with FedScoopTV. [found via @fedscoop ]

• Warp Drive in the Works

  Tags: Science, Space, Space Travel, Cool, Warp

  Jan 10 2013 3:13 PM

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  Scientists at NASA are working on a warp drive that can bend space in such a way to propel a ship up faster than the speed of light: ten times the speed of light! Moreover, this technology is not as far off as you’d think. From the article, "Perhaps a Star Trek experience within our lifetime is …

• Is that Lucky

  Tags: Screen Scraper, Funny, Humor

  Jan 10 2013 3:04 PM

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  The Screen Scraper Utility Kit for WinRT has been downloaded 777 times. After surviving 12/21/2012, clearly this is another run of good luck.

• The GPS System Time and Einstein

  Tags: Science, GPS, Geospatial

  Jan 7 2013 4:51 PM

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  It turns out that the onboard clocks on the GPS satellites have to be slowed down so that they appear to run accurately from the surface of the earth. Why? Due to relativity, gravity and motion. Watch the video. Very interesting.

• How to Change Style Resources at Runtime in WinRT

  Tags: Windows 8, WinRT, XAML

  Jan 7 2013 4:37 PM

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  This great article by Iris Classon shows you how to dynamically change Style resources at runtime in WindowsRT and it’s too good not to share.

• Get Ready to Rumble Radar

  Tags: Windows 8, Windows RT, AppDev, Apps

  Jan 7 2013 11:43 AM

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  Local developer genius and user group speaker, Roberto Hernandez has just released his first Windows 8 Store app: Rumble Radar. Rumble Radar uses an open government data feed from the United States Geological Survey and a great example of using free data sources in your applications. Read more …

• Creating HTML5 Windows 8 Apps with Blend

  Tags: HTML5, Windows 8, Video, Training

  Jan 3 2013 1:09 PM

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  SitePoint’s HTML5 Developer Center has a great link to seven videos that walk you through creating an HTML5 Windows 8 App with Blend. Fellow Developer Evangelist Dr. Doris Chen leads you through all the videos. If you liked these videos, be sure to sign up at 30 to Launch, where you can opt in to …

• More Comment Spam Humor

  Tags: Spam, Humor, Frank's World

  Jan 2 2013 3:32 PM

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  Since I’ve been offline for a little while, the comment spam on my blog has built up quite a bit. As usual, the bad posts get deleted. Every once in a while, I get a good laugh at the spammer’s efforts. I honestly don’t see the connection. Do you?

• Juggling Robot Courtesy of Kinect

  Tags: Kinect, Robots, Cool, Technology

  Jan 2 2013 3:08 PM

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  Researchers in Pittsburg, working on behalf of Disney, have created a robot that can play catch and even juggle. It’s time for me to start building robots.

• Happy New Year

  Tags: Frank's World

  Jan 2 2013 3:03 PM

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  It’s been a while since my last blog post. I took the last few weeks of the year to unwind and take a vacation just before Christmas. Now, I’m toned, tanned, rested and ready to make 2013 a great year!

• Gamification in Education

  Tags: Education, Gamification

  Dec 11 2012 2:54 PM

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  University of Michigan Professor Lampe uses gamification in his 200-student lecture classes to better engage his students.   [found via Slashdot]

• Windows Azure Platform Overview Infographic

  Tags: Azure, AzureSDK, Cloud, Infographics

  Dec 11 2012 12:43 PM

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  Here’s a graphic that demonstrates all the features that Azure now supports. Click the picture to see it larger.   Try Azure for free now.

• Top Tips for iOS Devs Building Windows Store Apps

  Tags: Windows 8, iOS, Big Nerd Ranch, AppDev

  Dec 10 2012 4:14 PM

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  In this session from Build 2012, Aaron Hillegrass from the Big Nerd Ranch covers the top 10 things iOS developers need to know about Windows Store Apps. Aaron has a number of talks up on Channel9, which iOS devs would find useful. As always, the best way to get up to speed on Windows Store app …

• Graphic Improvements in Windows 8

  Tags: Windows 8, Windows 8 UX, DirectX, Graphics

  Dec 10 2012 10:41 AM

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  What improvements were made to graphics in Windows 8 ? Watch this video on Channel 9 to get the lowdown on what’s been improved:   For even more information on graphic improvements in Windows 8, check out these links: Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics Windows Graphics APIs …

• Adventures in Windows 8: OOP Patterns and Windows Runtime Component Libraries

  Tags: Adventures in Windows 8, OOP, Windows RT, Windows Runtime, Software, Design Patterns

  Dec 7 2012 3:59 PM

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  The Windows 8 App programming model allows for the creation of WinRT Components that can be created in C/C++, C#, or Visual Basic, but consumed by all the languages Windows 8 supports: JavaScript, C/C++, C#, and Visual Basic.

  That’s right, you can write code in C++ and use it from JavaScript. …

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