Installing Windows 8 beta on the Samsung BUILD Slate
Published by on 01.03.2012 at 03:39

The following procedure is for people who were at the BUILD event and got a nice Samsung Slate device with Windows 8 Developer Preview, now wanting to install Windows 8 Consumer Preview on it:
  1. Download the x64 ISO on a Windows 7 machine: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso
  2. Create a USB bootable drive with it using the “Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool”: http://wudt.codeplex.com/
  3. Reboot the build tablet holding down the Windows key
  4. Go to troubleshooting, advanced options, command line
  5. Switch to your USB drive (like D:)
  6. Run Setup.exe
  7. Use product key: DNJXJ-7XBW8-2378T-X22TX-BKG7J
  8. Enjoy!


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MVVM in the web world
Published by on 04.02.2012 at 20:56

Introduction

Lately I have been experimenting with some web and I must say. the web is really making really amazing advances. The JS libraries out there are pretty awesome and make your job much more fun that it was a couple of years back ! One library that really really impressed me is (no not JQuery even though I must say I am quite impressed with JQuery as well !!) Knockout.js. The idea behind Knockout.js is to introduce MVVM to the world of web… One might ask does it even make sense to introduce a pattern like MVVM, how will it work without data binding capabilities ?? Well easy, bake binding capabilities in the library Smile and that is what Knockout.js is all about. I will not give a deep dive to knockout but I will just show some of the capabilities of this library and then explain why I see this library playing a big part of web development we know today.     Read the full post

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