On 11 September I’ll be in Charlotte, NC visiting the Charlotte Enterprise Developers GUILD family. Come and join us for the ½ day event on Creating M-V-VM Applications that are Tool-able, this link is also the registration link. Event is [..]
On August 23rd I published part 1 of The Great Silverlight Competency Test. The key tasks were to… …write a Silverlight program mimicking a problem report system, that allows you to go to your db and call up a record by phone number and [..]
I want a program that I can say “Watch what I do to this file” (change properties, unblock, etc.) and then be able to say “now do this for all the other files in the directory.” Can’t be too hard to write, can it?
This is the second of twelve questions in The Great Silverlight Competency Test – each of which I believe a competent Silverlight Programmer ought to be able to complete within no more than 1 hour. Each of the twelve tests will appear on Monday, a [..]
In this posting I will show how to create Feedburner feeds based on queries in Word Press using the Feedburner plugins. Begin by setting up your full site feed on Feedburner. Next, modify the Feedburner plugin as described by Brad Grier here. For [..]
I have ADD, (“oh look, something shiny!”) which means getting organized is a challenge, and making sure I can put my hands on any given piece of information a huge life-long effort, but technology has helped a lot, and after trying, discarding, [..]
Made a quick and dirty video about it… Be sure to watch in full screen.
In this tutorial we will build a meaningful, and nontrivial Windows phone 7 application. This will give us the opportunity to explore layout controls, interactive controls, Visual Studio and a good bit more. [Updated 8/30/2010] Let’s start by [..]
http://WithReferenceTo.Me The application that we’ll be developing in the next phase of the HVP will allow the user to record and then look up everything that happened from day to day. With this application, each day you can record: Music you [..]
There are a number of practices that we engage in –– no, that we cling to, and defend, and teach to others, – that amount to magical thinking, or at best, rational failure. This is often just fine, no harm done (other than to our self-image [..]
A brief review of the Yeti… Comments welcome.
After the 2D matrices, here is a new article about 3D matrices. It covers the 3D coordinate systems (left handed, right handed...), the different matrix kinds (translation, rotation, scaling, perspective, viewport), their combination and [..]
This is the zeroth (introduction) in a series of Tutorials aimed at iPhone developers who want to learn how to port existing applications or create new applications in Windows Phone 7. About these Tutorials The series will consist of brief [..]
I will be doing a full-day pre-conference at TechEd EMEA covering Windows Phone 7 .. Check out the details for the talk here It is PRC04 - Windows Phone 7 Application Platform Technical Deep Dive. I am just going to [..]
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The Ribbon Control is a pretty big control owing to the complexity of the Ribbon design guidelines. You can give it a try by downloading from LINK While there are several things to blog about, this post will focus on RibbonGallery. The download [..]
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There has been some thrashing about the HyperVideo player. This note is both an update and an invitation for you to participate. The Fate of the HVP Phase I of the HyperVideoPlayer project was completed in March. Phase II had been delayed while [..]
That's the (somewhat provocative) title of a presentation I'll be delivering at the NYC .NET Developers Group on October 21, 2010. Details are here. This is the only public presentation on Windows Phone 7 currently on my schedule, and I plan [..]
Don't you love getting a kick in the teeth first thing in the morning? That's what often happens to me when I read my email immediately after turning on the computer, even before my shower and breakfast. People send me emails that are obviously [..]
I recently imposed on myself the constraint of coding without comments. Why? * Comments rust faster than code, even when you're careful * Well written code can be read, and comments are annoying footnotes * Comments make for lazy [..]
Windows Phone is getting very impressive reviews, and all of them mention the great, innovative user experience on the phone. A few weeks ago, our Studios team, the folks responsible for the end-to-end user experience on the phone, invited a few [..]
Check out this post by my designer colleage, Tim Aidlin, on how to use Glimmer to create jQuery animations, in this case the hero graphic up at http://archivist.visitmix.com. Here's the screencast itself: [..]
Kael has a nice series on the Zoomable Canvas control The usage is something like < ListBox.ItemsPanel > < ItemsPanelTemplate > < ZoomableCanvas Loaded ="ZoomableCanvas_Loaded" RealizationLimit ="1000" RealizationRate ="10" [..]
A couple months ago I wrote a column about two “Indispensible” utilities, one of which was Launchy. I had to issue something of a retraction: Update June 23, While this program is incredibly useful, I’ve noticed [what] looks like a [..]