Mark your calendars - November 17th is the next Denver Dev Day. Save the link - https://denverdevday.eventday.com/ you will want to register once registration opens in the next couple of weeks. If you aren't familar with past events, the presentation topics ranging from desktop, micro-services,

The call for speakers is now open. What type of topics are we looking for? We are looking for topics that help our community of developers learn about new things, improve on existing things, or see real-world examples of patterns, techniques, and technologies. Long-time speakers and new speakers are all

A local launch event for Visual Studio 2017 will be happening in Denver on March 10th. It's a short half day event focused on the key new features - you can register for a seat here - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/colorado-visual-studio-2017-launch-party-on-friday-march-10-2017-tickets-31758511563

While I can't believe it is already October, there is still time for a couple of events before the end of the year. First up is Summit 2016 in Tampa next week October 11th-14th (details [http://www.dynamiccommunities.com/conferences]) Next is Denver Dev Days October 28th -

Looks like the One Primary Data Store per Production Instance isn't working too well from an architecture point of view for some SalesForce.com customers. In North America, they have 45 instances, and NA14 (one of the 45) failed and had to be restored losing 5 hours worth

Cloud makes it easy to deploy stuff, even just to test it, but that is also what can slowly make your bill bigger than it needs to be. I finally just added a reminder task every six months to go through and look at what I had been using. Some

One of the features Windows 8.1 had Assigned Access, which could assign a single application to a user and made it like a kiosk. In Windows 10, this feature is still around if you are looking for it and don't see it, it might be because you

I've been on Windows 10 for a while now, but each build has a few new things I haven't had a chance to look at in detail. One of them is the Update Delivery Optimization feature that allows Windows to pull updates from other local computers

Colorado’s next Denver Dev Day on Friday, June 5th, 2015. Denver Dev Day is Colorado’s premier developer event, 100% organized by local community leaders and volunteers. And, this year’s schedule is awesome. Tickets are free, but seating is limited. Sign up here https://denverdevday.eventday.com/

One of the problems of the current generation of app stores is apps can sneak in, and you don't even know about it. I realized today that Dropbox has created finally their own Windows Phone client that seems to work pretty well. You can find the details here

Denver dev days is a community run event - this summer's event will be at the Microsoft Office in Denver on Friday June 5th. Save the date! If you have a talk or even a lightening talk that would be interesting to a developer audience, you are welcome

I've been using Cortana since she the beta started. It's amazing how quickly you get used to being able to say simple things like "Remind me when I get to the office to do X". Yesterday though she stopped working, and only would reply

If you register an application with Azure AD and then later decide to delete it but can't because the Delete button is disabled here's how to fix it. Pretty simple, if the application was is marked as Multi-Tenant the delete button is disabled. To fix the

I started this process just after the beginning of the year when I relaunched my CRM blog (http://crm.davidyack.com) using Ghost. You can read more about why I chose Ghost and dumped Squarespace after almost 8 years here http://crm.davidyack.com/welcome-to-2015/ If you are interested in