An 8th appointment as MVP!
For the 8th consecutive year, our colleague Eric De Carufel has earned the title of Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). Recognized as a .NET development specialist, he has been involved since 2009 in the Microsoft community. The Microsoft MVP title is intended to highlight the involvement and commitment of community leaders. This distinction demonstrates helping
Studio and the startups, a win-win partnership
Several months ago, Studio Pyxis has started an exploration and questioning process regarding startups in the greater region of Montreal. Everything stems from two things : ascertainment and intention. The ascertainment extends over some years. After more than 26 years, I stopped counting the times that entrepreneurs offered me to be part of their projects. Some
Why consider Xamarin Forms for a mobile application?
Why consider Xamarin Forms for a mobile application developed with an Agile approach? Several aspects have to be considered when starting a project, Agile or not. Among them, there is obvioulsy the technology that will be used. In the case of a mobile application, there are many possible choices : to develop natively on Android and
The software development ecosystem: the trends for 2017
During my third participation in Stratégies PME, I had the opportunity to give a presentation on the trends for 2017. So, I’ve looked into my crystal ball in order to share my vision of what 2017 has in store for us regarding software development. Here is a summary of what I see! Agility and continuous
Hello World Mobile
With the recent acquisition of Xamarin by Microsoft, it could be expected that the development of mobile applications would become a little more accessible, especially considering that this acquisition has changed the cost of Xamarin to… nothing! Thanks to Xamarin Forms and Visual Studio Community Edition, it is now possible to develop a mobile application
Hello World entreprise version
Basic Hello World The best way to learn a new language is still writing the typical Hello World application. I can not count the number of times I started a new project with this simple application. For example here is the simplest Hello World application that can be done in C#: After starting Visual Studio and
