Talking with Jeff Prosise, author and co-founder of Wintellect, about programming 
for Windows Phone, what’s new in Mango, HTML5, jQuery and other topics in programming.
“I think I’m having more fun in our industry right now than I have since the mid to late 1980’s.”
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Talking with Andrei Kashcha about his passion for Silverlight and the data 
visualization projects he has created.
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It’s August and it’s hot, and it’s time for a few movie recommendations…
I assume you’ve seen The Matrix and Memento. If not, stop reading and go watch those right now. If you did see them and you liked them, you’ll probably also really like:
Inception – This great sf film considers what happens if technology lets you share a dream with others.
Dependency properties are like the sewers, electric wires and pipes running under the streets of a big city. You can ignore them, you can even be oblivious to their existence, but they make all the magic happen and when something breaks you really want to understand them.
Before we begin exploring Dependency Properties, let’s review Properties themselves. To do that, we go back into the dark early days of C++ when what we had available in a class were methods and member variables (fields).
When I was a boy, there were no properties, VCRs or digital watches…
I had the opportunity to talk with John Papa on Silverlight TV about Reactive Extensions.
You’ve seen in previous Windows Phone Mini-tutorials 
that all tasks have the same basic structure:
The Bing Maps Task is no different. In fact, it is so simple to use I hesitate to dedicate a mini-tutorial to it. This will be brief.
Talking with Rey Bango about JavaScript, jQuery and ScriptJunkie.com 
Rey Bango is a community manager for JavaScript, HTML & CSS for Microsoft and a member of the jQuery Project team. He’s also editor of ScritJunkie.com which focuses on creating cross-browser web development articles and tutorials
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Turned on to this album by a buddy, it has some of the best 
St. Louis Blues I’ve heard. Truly brilliant. Incredible music, incredible performances.
W.C. Handy (1873-1958) was known by some as the father of the Blues. This album will give you a solid idea why.
Stachmo (1901-1971) was one of the most inventive cornet and trumpet players of all time. Again, you hear it on this album. Tremendous “presence” and tremendous personality were combined with amazing talent.
Can’t recommend this album highly enough.
Getting your device’s location takes remarkably little code. 
The new emulator that comes with Mango makes it possible to test location services without adding a GPS to your desktop computer and putting it in your car, thus saving a fortune on extension cords.
Mango brings a new extended emulator with emulation of the accelerometer. This 
allows you to test applications that use the accelerometer within the emulator before doing your final testing on the device. (Previously you had to pick up your entire desktop computer and twist it back and forth, now you can leave it safely on your desk).
To see this at work, we’ll create a new Windows application with a dot that we’ll “move” around the page based on tilting and twisting the emulated phone.
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. So here it is. What’s in your bag?
The Windows Phone life cycle is not terribly complicated, but it can be the source of some 
confusion, and managing the life-cycle can be intimidating to new Windows Phone programmers. This posting will review the basic life-cycle of a Windows Phone application and will show you what you need to do to preserve state and give your users a rewarding phone experience.
