Category Archives: Tools and Utilities
Windows Phone Tutorial: Why Windows Phone Developers Should Must and Are Learning and Using Expression Blend
Back in June, I wrote this to Silverlight developers: Okay, tough love: if you are serious about Silverlight development, the days of using one Integrated Development Environment for all your work are…. over. The benefits of adding Expression Blend to … Continue reading
Posted in Blend, Data, iPhoneToWP7, Styles and Templates, WindowsPhone
Tagged Blend, i2WTutorial, WindowsPhone, wp7Tutorial
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!!WOW!! Run out and buy an SSD.
Wow! I added an SSD to my computer and made it my startup disk. Shazow! My disk rating in Windows went from 5.4 to 7.4 (that is unreal). Load time for Visual Studio is under 2 seconds. Load time for … Continue reading
Announcing the Windows Phone 7 Release, WP7 Silverlight Toolkit and XNA 4.0!
Today is a great release day. We’ve launched everything you need to write Windows Phone 7 applications. Not only that, but we’ve also released XNA 4.0 not only for phone, but for all supported XNA platforms.
Posted in iPhoneToWP7, News, Tools and Utilities, WindowsPhone
Tagged Blend, i2WTutorial, Tools, wp7Tutorial
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How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Master Project Management
In a previous blog post I talked about task management, in this post I talk about managing projects: especially software projects; especially software projects in an Agile development environment. Project management, is of course, a topic near and dear to … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion, Tools and Utilities
Tagged BestPractices
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Next Open Source WP7-based Project
Yes, indecision is a bad thing, except when its not. The delay in re-starting my open source project has afforded me the opportunity to think of a number of alternative projects that might very well provide more (or more interesting) … Continue reading
Posted in HyperVideo Player, News, Patterns & Skills, Tools and Utilities
Tagged BestPractices, HVP, Open Source, WindowsPhone
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Great SL Competency Test Part 2 (Answer)
The task: Create a custom button that has non-standard visual behavior when you hover over it, and when you click it but which otherwise acts exactly like a button. The idea was to be able to do this in under … Continue reading
Posted in Blend, Community, Patterns & Skills, Styles and Templates
Tagged BestPractices, Competency
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Tag-based Feeds
In this posting I will show how to create Feedburner feeds based on queries in Word Press using the Feedburner plugins.
Posted in Community, News, Tools and Utilities
Tagged BestPractices, Community, Mini-Tutorial, Tools
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How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Get Organized
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 … Continue reading
Migrated from 32 bit to 64 bit – Wow!
Made a quick and dirty video about it… Be sure to watch in full screen.
i2W: An iPhone Developer’s First Windows Phone 7 Application
Go to first Tutorial 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]
Posted in iPhoneToWP7, Mini-Tutorial, Tools and Utilities, WindowsPhone
Tagged convert, i2WTutorial, migrate, WindowsPhone, wp7Tutorial
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Yeti: A Review
A brief review of the Yeti… Comments welcome.
The Great Silverlight Competency Test – Part 1
This begins The Great Silverlight Competency Test – an entirely arbitrary set of a dozen challenges, each of which I believe a competent Silverlight Programmer ought to be able to complete within no more than 1 hour. Each of the … Continue reading
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Tagged BestPractices, Competency, WindowsPhone
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