Guest Blog | Zero to App in 20 Minutes: Build Your First Chat App with Microsoft Azure, Visual Studio App Center, and Rapid

Visual Studio App Center December 7, 2017 Dec 7, 2017 12/7/17

This is a special guest post from David Drobik, co-founder at Rapid. Until recently, we had only one option for communicating with friends, family, and colleagues from our mobile phones: Short Messaging System (SMS). Now, though, we don’t have to limit our communication to 160 characters (the SMS max per message, in case you don’t ...

Guest Blog | A Mobile DevOps Retrospective Part II: Automation

Visual Studio App Center October 26, 2017 Oct 26, 2017 10/26/17

Visual Studio Mobile Center is now Visual Studio App Center. Learn more here.   This is Part II in a special guest series from Greg Shackles, Principal Engineer at Olo. New to the series? Start here. As I wrote in my last post, DevOps is (1) more than tooling, (2) crucial to mobile app development, (3) rarely done, and (4) worth it. ...

Guest Blog | A Mobile DevOps Retrospective Part I: 150+ Apps Later

Visual Studio App Center September 20, 2017 Sep 20, 2017 09/20/17

Visual Studio Mobile Center is now Visual Studio App Center. Learn more here.   This is a special guest post from Greg Shackles, Principal Engineer at Olo. It’s hard to go more than a few minutes before seeing some mention of “DevOps,” whether it be in an article, a conference talk, or a job spec. It’s taken the development world...

Guest Blog | Fixing Disasters ASAP with Instant Updates

Visual Studio App Center September 15, 2017 Sep 15, 2017 09/15/17

Visual Studio Mobile Center is now Visual Studio App Center. Learn more here.   This is a special guest post from Michael Hayes, co-founder of Add Jam and Pocket Leap. Web developers have one big advantage over mobile developers: when users report a bug in the latest update, if we react fast we can push out a fix in no time, and on the ...