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How Open Banking is reshaping the sector

I wrote recently about what the future holds for Open Banking in the US. But what about the UK? We’re now over five years into the Open Banking era in the UK. How is it reshaping the banking sector, and what’s coming next?
Andrew Carr · 20th  Mar · 5 min read
Artificial Intelligence

Something in the Wind: Weather Forecasting in the Age of AI

Accurate weather forecasting helps us make decisions every day, from the trivial to the critical. I take a look at the technology that goes into predicting the weather, and consider how the AI revolution could change that.
Peter Ling · 6th  Mar · 8 min read
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Jekyll - A Developer's Wordpress?
We're very soon to launch a site documenting an open source project we've been hard at work producing. As the project is hosted on github, we'll be making use of the Github Pages hosting feature which itself is built on top of Jekyll.
Chris Price · 17th  Dec 2012 · 3 min read
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View Inheritance in Backbone
Backbone.js is interesting because it gives you the basic framework of an MVC application without enforcing patterns on you.
Steven Hall · 14th  Dec 2012 · 6 min read
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A Multicast Delegate Pattern for iOS Controls
This blog post introduces a simple pattern for adding multicasting capabilities to existing iOS controls. Adding multicasting allows for improved clarity and code re-use.
Colin Eberhardt · 19th  Nov 2012 · 4 min read
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The world of LESS
Luke Page, one of the project leads, gives an introduction to less.
Luke Page · 16th  Nov 2012 · 11 min read
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Ray Wenderlich and My Adventures in iOS
The technologies that we use to write applications for our end users are changing at a frightening pace!
Colin Eberhardt · 12th  Nov 2012 · 1 min read
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Async, where can I use it?
With the recent release of Windows 8 and VS 2012, you've probably heard of the bold move in the WinRT API to only offer asynchronous versions of operations which take any significant time and the corresponding async/await feature in C#5 and VB11.
Nicholas Wolverson · 7th  Nov 2012 · 4 min read
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Integrating Knockout and jQueryMobile
This blog post looks at the issues regarding integration of KnockoutJS and jQueryMobile, and provides a simple worked example - a Twitter Search application - where the two technologies play nicely together!
Colin Eberhardt · 23rd  Oct 2012 · 7 min read
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EdBus: Public Transport Locator App
I've been working on a Windows Store application called EdBus, as part of the CodeProject AppInnovation contest.
Andrew Aylett · 19th  Oct 2012 · 1 min read
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Dispatches from DDDNorth 2
Last weekend I traveled to Bradford for the second DDDNorth conference - a community-organised developer event which featured some excellent speakers.
Sam Hogarth · 15th  Oct 2012 · 5 min read
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JSConf EU 2012
Hot on the heels of Reject.js was JSConf EU, a weekend conference about, well, JavaScript!
Chris Price · 12th  Oct 2012 · 8 min read
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Clearer - A Gesture-Driven Windows 8 To-Do Application
A couple of days ago a published a new article on CodeProject, this latest article tackles the migration of a gesture-drive application from Windows Phone to Windows 8.
Colin Eberhardt · 12th  Oct 2012 · 1 min read
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Reject.js
Last Thursday I headed to Berlin for Reject.js, a community JavaScript conference organised to coincide with JSConf.eu.
Chris Price · 10th  Oct 2012 · 3 min read
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PDF Generation and Printing in .NET
In this post I'm going to talk about creating PDF documents in C#.
Rolf Baxter · 5th  Oct 2012 · 13 min read
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Toob - London Underground travel app
Toob is a London Underground travel app for Windows 8 that I am designing and developing for CodeProject's App Innovation Contest. It is currently a work in progress but I have written an article introducing the application and going through some useful technical information for anyone interested in writing HTML5 applications for Windows 8.
Graham Odds · 4th  Oct 2012 · 1 min read
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TypeScript versus Closure
How does Microsoft's TypeScript, the new kid on the block, compare to Google's Closure?
Chris Price · 2nd  Oct 2012 · 4 min read
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Converting an HTML5 App to a Native App with Titanium
In this post Colin Eberhardt's Property Finder app gets another outing, but this time with a native twist.
Chris Price · 1st  Oct 2012 · 7 min read
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Picker Style Number Animation with jQuery and CSS3
This post describes a jQuery plugin which performs "picker style" animations between numbers using CSS3 transitions and transforms.
Mark Rhodes · 26th  Sep 2012 · 6 min read
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Just what is the CSS 3D perspective property?
Most of us have had a play with CSS3 3D transforms, stacked a few elements, rotated them, maybe even made a cube out of them.
Chris Price · 19th  Sep 2012 · 1 min read
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Making the most out of JavaScript Intellisense in VS2012
Intellisense for JavaScript has always felt to me like an unfinished addition to Visual Studio, something that promises so much but doesn't deliver for larger projects.
Chris Price · 18th  Sep 2012 · 1 min read
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Is the Dashboard Pattern Dead?
A look at how the Android design patterns have shifted over time
Sam Hogarth · 10th  Sep 2012 · 6 min read

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