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What’s In Your Laptop Bag?

Jeff Blankenburg, Microsoft Evangelist, (and my co-author on the forthcoming book Migrating To Windows Phone) recently wrote a great blog post on the contents of his Laptop bag. He asked me to follow up with the contents of my bag.  … Continue reading

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Getting Organized–Again. Top Tips

One thing that I’ve learned in my attempt at getting organized is that whatever works  today may stop working after a while.   But even more deadly than fleeting fads is the woulda’ coulda’ shoulda’ effect in which you set out … Continue reading

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Silverlight Animation– Bird Hunt

Jeff Paries appears on Silverlight TV talking about the Bird Hunt game that was documented here in this posting and this followup.  Great guy, great game, great show, and very valuable information about animation in Silverlight.

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Yet Another Podcast #33–Mobile Game Development

Talking with Eric Mork and Kelly White about developing games and applications on Windows Phone, iPhone and Android.  Kelly’s Blog  Kelly’s Company  Erik’s Company Reference information from show Microsoft ecosystem iOS apps   Listen | Return to Yet Another Podcast … Continue reading

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12 MORE Insanely Essential Utilities For Programmers

In July I published a list of 12 Insanely Essential Utilities for Programmers. That list is still current and I’m still using every one of the twelve.  The list, however, has become popular enough, and there are enough great utilities … Continue reading

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Windows Phone From Scratch – Animation

Animation in Silverlight is declared in Storyboards and triggered by a user’s action, by a background action or process or, most commonly, by a change in state.  Thus an animation might be triggered by pressing a button, but more often … Continue reading

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Yet Another Podcast – Show #8 – Firefly Part 2

Talking with folks from Firefly Logic about programming for Windows Phone 7 vs. iPhone programming. 

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Microsoft Reveals 9 New Windows Phones

Dateline: October 11, 2010 – Worldwide   Microsoft today joined partners in revealing 9 new Windows Phone 7 handsets that will be available very soon from leading mobile providers in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia. I for one, am … Continue reading

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Yet Another Podcast Guests

Code to Live. Live To Code Show #1 – Jon Galloway – Alt.Net, Open source and more Show #2 – Erik Mork – iPhone and Windows Phone 7 Programming Upcoming Guests Firefly on iPhone/Windows Phone 7 Programming Scott Guthrie (Microsoft … Continue reading

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Two Tutorial Series – Your Input and Participation Wanted

Some of you have expressed interested in either or both of the current tutorial series An iPhone Developer’s Guide To Windows Phone 7 Programming Windows Phone 7 Programming For Silverlight Developers To make it easier to follow these, and to … Continue reading

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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.

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Yet Another Podcast

Intelligent Technical Conversation Quick Stats. Average hits per show: ~8,000Popular shows: 10,000-15,000 Find us wherever you get your podcasts under YapCast Other Techie Podcasts Listen now:  

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