Simon Allardice

Discover how a database can benefit both you and your architecture, whatever the programming language, operating system, or application type you use.

Explore solutions to common Swift programming challenges, and then compare the results with other programming languages in the Code Clinic series.

Take your existing iOS development skills to a whole new level. Learn to design apps and extensions for the Apple Watch using WatchKit.

Simon Allardice explores the capabilities of Swift and Objective-C, showing how and when they intersect and demonstrating how to migrate existing Objective-C projects to Swift and work with both languages in the same project.

Want to build an iPhone or iPad app? Start here. Learn to create native apps for iOS 8 using Xcode 6 and Swift, Apple's new programming language.

Gain a deeper understanding of how computer programs store and manipulate data internally.

Learn how to build native applications for the iPhone and iPad using the iOS 7 SDK, Xcode 5, and Objective-C.

Get the tools you need, learn what an Objective-C program looks like, and get your first code up and running.

Bring your iOS development skills—and your applications—up to speed with the new options in the iOS 7 SDK, including a new version of Xcode.

Make your programs faster and more responsive by understanding how to create efficient, optimized, well-running code in any programming language.

Create more reliable, maintainable software by using test-driven development.

Take existing code and make it better—more readable, efficient, understandable, and updateable—with refactoring.

Bring your existing iOS development skills—and your own applications—up to speed with the new options in iOS 6 SDK.

Discover how to create, manage, and deliver interactive reports—not just to print, but to dynamically explore enterprise-level data—with Reporting Services in SQL Server.

Introduces the concepts behind Core Data, the object persistence framework used to manipulate and store data in iOS and OS X applications.

Build desktop applications for the Mac OS X by exploring the many frameworks and essential design patterns in Cocoa.

Introduces object-oriented terms like abstraction and inheritance and shows how to define requirements and use cases and create a conceptual model of your application.

Edit and customize web sites created with the SharePoint 2010 platform.

Provides the core knowledge to begin programming in any language, using JavaScript to explore the syntax of a programming language, and shows how to write and execute your first application and understand what's going on under the hood.

Use JavaScript to add new features and a richer, more compelling user interface on web pages.

Use SharePoint Designer to create rich, highly visual web pages in SharePoint that connect, read, and even update information stored externally.

Explores all the major features of SQL Server 2008, beginning with core concepts.

Demonstrates the full feature set in SharePoint 2010.

Walks through the first few hours a new user will spend with SharePoint working with Web sites, communities, content, and search.

Highlights the new tools and user interface enhancements Microsoft includes in the 2010 version of SharePoint Server.

Explores using SharePoint Designer 2007 to alter the default appearance of SharePoint web sites.