Monthly Archives: March 2015

Beacon idea #2: Don’t touch my beer

Xamarin is holding contest to get ideas of how beacons (iBeacons) can be used to context-aware mobile applications. I have been doing a lot of research on beacons so I thought I’d share some of my ideas. The Concept: Don’t touch my beer This little idea will help insure that your beer remains where you […]

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Beacon Idea #1: Did I take out the trash

Xamarin is holding contest to get ideas of how beacons (iBeacons) can be used to context-aware mobile applications. I have been doing a lot of research on beacons so I thought I’d share some of my ideas. The Concept: Did I take out the trash? My city picks up trash and recycling on a weekly […]

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Convergence Wrap-Up

This year’s Convergence conference in Atlanta was a blast.  Lots of new announcements for both the Dynamics product line as well as that of Azure. In case you missed it, you can access many of the sessions in the Convergence Video Library, which I urge you to review as your time permits. Convergence 2015 EMEA […]

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Azure March Announcement

Microsoft just keeps releasing new stuff: Join the virtual event to watch as Scott Guthrie announces an exciting new Microsoft Azure service for application developers. Learn what’s new and how you can build cloud scale web and mobile apps faster than ever before and with less code. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/campaigns/azure-march-announcement/

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Bulk-Editing Marketing List Members

Like many people, I used marketing lists extensively to track different groups of people that I work with. Today I ran into a situation where I needed to perform a bulk-edit of the contacts that were part of a marketing list. Unfortunately, many of the normal commands available with the standard contact views are not […]

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