iPhone to Windows Phone 7 – Diving Deeper

September 4th, 2010 6 comments

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In this tutorial, we’ll expand upon the work done in the previous tutorial and we’ll look more closely at a few key issues.

MVVM

iStock_WindowXSmall As an iPhone Developer your thinking is adapted to and influenced by the Model-View-Controller pattern. The very good news is that the pattern for Windows Phone 7 (WP7) development, MVVM, is very closely related to MVC.

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Great SL Competency Test Part 1 (Answer)

September 1st, 2010 1 comment

On August 23rd I published part 1 of The Great Silverlight Competency TestThe key tasks were to…

Running Project

…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 view and/or edit all of the following fields. Do not implement membership or roles feel free to prepopulate the db with randomized data. 

  • Full name
  • Address
  • Email(s)
  • Phone(s)
  • Date of first contact
  • Date of last contact
  • Reason for calling (1 of 5 possible)
  • Product (1 of 20 possible)
  • Computer(s) running on
  • Description of problem

The idea was to be able to do this in under an hour.  This posting will review one solution. 

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A Program I Want

August 31st, 2010 7 comments

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?  :-)

The Great Silverlight Competency Test [2]

August 30th, 2010 7 comments

businesswoman pressing a button 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.

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Tag-based Feeds

August 29th, 2010 No comments

In this posting I will show how to create Feedburner feeds based on queries in Word Press using the  Feedburner plugins.

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How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Get Organized

August 29th, 2010 6 comments

BusyMan 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, returning to and otherwise manipulating every conceivable combination, I have a system that works so well i thought I’d share it.

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Migrated from 32 bit to 64 bit – Wow!

August 29th, 2010 2 comments

Made a quick and dirty video about it…  Be sure to watch in full screen.