nigelsampson

I'm fairly sure any app that declares the Internet capability will be flagged as requiring a privacy policy.

One of the better "Metro" frameworks is Metro Bootstrap, simply a Metro skin over Bootstrap rather than trying to reinvent the wheel.

http://talkslab.github.com/metro-bootstrap/index.html

The great thing is that with the Start Screen the first scenario still works and anecdotally is faster for me than the Windows 7 Start Menu.

Highly recommend Modern UI Icons http://modernuiicons.com to fill any gaps.

It's certainly looking more "metro" than Chrome attempt so far. I kinda like that it's a bit of a fusion of both, still keeping some elements identifiable as Firefox.

I believe a lot of the teams were jumping on Git for source control before Codeplex had Git support. A little awkward in that stuff is split, but still awesome to seem more stuff like this.

It's had the "do anything" behavior since the Consumer Preview back in February.

Installing Metro apps from the Store then sure it's metro. Installing a desktop app doesn't go through metro at all.

You can change the default apps, just like you always have to not use Metro apps.

The Start Screen works just like the Start Menu did in terms of searching. Just start typing "notepad" rather than browsing for it.

The biggest problem I had with OAuth 1 was that if you messed up anything chances are all you got back from the server was "Signature Invalid".

You're then stuck trying to find out where you had gone wrong with no guidance. The last time was due to an incorrect content type on the post. A coworker accidentally had the key and secret the wrong way around.

Both scenarios has the same error and you're often stuck groping around for a solution.

That's untrue, desktop apps can (and already have) been listed in the Windows Store. They're essentially links out to your website where you'd need to handle your own payment and downloads, but you'd have a presence and show up in search results etc. Search for Age of Empires Online in the store for an example of a Desktop app listing.

Yes and no, the approach I've used in MVC (.Net) is passing View Models to the View (rather than pure models). That means you can push some of the "tell" into the view model rather than having that logic in the view itself.

I haven't done any RoR but I imagine a similar approach would work there.

I've been using Windows 8 has my main development machine since the start of April (developing Metro style apps). I also found the jump between Metro and Desktop initially jarring but I've gotten used to it now and it feels less unnatural.

Given that I'm spending 80% of my time in Visual Studio I definitely spend more time in the Desktop than Metro (on the tablet it's pretty much the opposite), if you're living in Desktop and not launching any Metro apps than you can almost view the Start Screen as a launcher / dashboard. Tapping the windows key to quickly see alerts, tiles and notifications and then typing to find the app you want to launch.

I think Metro can succeed on the desktop but it'll certainly need the appropriate sort of apps to do so and building apps that work well as both a full screen mouse / keyboard app as well as a tablet app is going to be a real challenge.

Sorry I meant when they announced a few weeks ago that the expression version wouldn't support native Windows apps.

Given that there were about four or five posts on the front page about the changes to the express version changes it would that a lot of people care.

I'm glad Microsoft listened to people on this one.

Lots of really interesting things, I like they're bring git (although personally wish it supported hg) publishing, memcached protocol support etc.

This was the first computer when I was eight, thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Thank you, I was wondering where I had heard the name before.

Agreed, the title feels very "link baitish", the text of the email sent out says they're changing the names of the Azure services in the usage reports.

IMO this makes sense, if I'm receiving an Azure Usage Report I don't need to see a line item for "Azure CDN" when "CDN" covers it perfectly well.

There's nothing indicated anywhere that there is any change to the Azure brand at all.

No story here, move along.

It's certainly becoming more impressive, though I think the network effect of Dropbox will certainly help them along.

Having the built in Office apps in Skydrive and the ability to have the same word doc available on every computer as well as the phone is very handy.

The Windows 8 store isn't even open for developer submission yet, seems a little early to compare size or quality.

I imagine once we see a Release Candidate and the store open it will be a different story, but still far too early.

Here's a post about the process of getting into the store in the future.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jaimer/archive/2012/04/19/wanted-gre...

I took the same view, I think there's been a kind of conflation of loving your profession and not being a 501 developer.

I think this is exacerbated by the various levels of tax in the US, because not everyone knows which taxes apply it makes it difficult to compare prices objectively.

In NZ GST is always 15% and always included but because everyone knows this it makes comparison easy.

Agreed, the biggest issue highlighted in the new Lumia 900 views (which most are calling a fantastic phone) is missing some of the key apps in the ecosystem.

I don't think the size of the marketplace is the problem, every user has about ten key apps they need on their phone (the trouble being it's a different ten for everyone), but every most of the cases covered will help them a lot.

I expect them to do the same thing with Windows 8 and the store.

I've had the complete opposite experience, approval of new apps and updates have all being quick and pain free. A couple of times when there's been a failure in approval I've had really good documentation around what needed to be done.

Trouble with cats is they often destroy bird populations as well, not sure how much of a problem this is in Australia, but in New Zealand feral cats are up there with pests that need to wiped off any island that is to be rehabilitated.

The Stephens Island Wren is an excellent example of this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephens_Island_Wren

Congratulations on the success, I'd love to subscribe to the print version, but the delivery costs to New Zealand are 95% of the subscription cost.

I don't think comparing developers based off the achievements on Coderwall is helpful either.

From what I've read about the way Metro style apps can implement contracts it wouldn't be hard to build an S3 app that let you load and save files from any application to your Amazon storage.

Mango added the ability to query contact and calendar data without the chooser UI. However it does require a declared capability in the app manifest.

I'm also surprised Microsoft hasn't taken advantage of this in marketing Windows Phone since it has a capabilities model similar to Android.