Check out our new classes and dates for 2013 at www.hismti.com!

Learn how to practice safe social media behavior at Hawaii Social Media Training Institute Safety Workshop this Saturday October 27th from 10am-2pm @ The Box jelly!

The Social Media Safety Workshop will share best practices for online, social media security and safety. The goal is to provide guidance and tips to having a presence online that allows you to safely navigate through this new age technology.



For $10 attendees will learn how to safely integrate social media…

This week, I'm deleting lots of my code.

This is actually a pretty common occurrence for me. In this case, a UI pattern that I came up with for a project works well in the small, but doesn't scale up. Other times, I've worked on a chunk of code and revisited it enough times that its structure was no longer clear, and the cognitive effort of remembering all its inconsistencies significantly outweighed the benefit of keeping it. Every once in a while I'll have thought of a better way to…

A few weeks ago Microsoft released a preview for TypeScript.  What is TypeScript and why would you use it?  Initially TypeScript may look very similar in function to CoffeeScript or Dart.  These are two technologies TypeScript often gets compared to because all three can be used to generate JavaScript.…

If you have been part of building an application that has lasted longer than a month then you've probably had some troubles as the project grows.   Business logic requirements get more and more complicated.  Features change direction.  You occasionally "hack" something just to satisfy a release or an urgent bug fix, saying "I can refactor/clean this up this later..."

Then one day "later..." is now.  New features are getting harder and harder to implement.  Everything seems intricately…

101 Million Americans Jobless : 41.47% Real Unemployment!!

Mr. President, who is giving an account of the 88.311 million Unemployed "not in the workforce?" Numbers do not lie ... Do the math.

Those who are "not in the workforce" i.e. ran out of unemployment benefits and are no longer included and therefore uncounted in the official Government statistics of "Unemployed" is actually 7x times greater than…

WCF is a framework for building service-oriented applications.  The flexibility of the framework makes it very powerful, but that power requires some wisdom in the implementation.  In this post, there will not be many answers, but I hope to help you determine what questions to ask.

Sharing assemblies between the server and the client

Many developers like to do things such as override ToString().  Not surprisingly, that code will not survive being sent over WCF.  It is…

Good Morning!  Hope everyone had a great Columbus Day! Im new to Tech Hui and am very excited to join in on this great community and converse back and forth with Hawaii's most talented minds!  I recently developed an app for the Android Platform designed to save lives.  Its called Monkey Message, which is a text to voice app created for our drivers in Hawaii to stay safe while commuting.  You're probably thinking "Well Bob, this isnt anything new, Siri does it, Vingo does it, whats the…

It's time to get Facebook savvy and take your skills to the next level!



Join us at the Hawaii Social Media Training Institute for our Advanced Facebook class on October 26th from 10:00AM-12:00PM!



This 2 hour session will cover:



* Case study; Successful Facebook Marketing Campaigns



* How to increase interactions from your fans



* How to effectively advertise on Facebook



* How to incorporate Facebook into your existing marketing…