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. Continue reading
The Great Silverlight Competency Test – 2
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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.
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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 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!
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
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]
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Tagged convert, i2WTutorial, migrate, WindowsPhone, wp7Tutorial
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The Open Source Project Spec: With Reference To Me
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.
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Programmer Superstitions
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 as rational geeks) but some of these totemic-rituals are stumbling blocks in our ability to produce reliable software.
From time to time we might want to stop and question our most cherished assumptions to see if we’ve fallen into any of these traps:
- Secrecy and Mystery
- Ancestor Worship
- Apophenia
- Argument From Authority
Yeti: A Review
A brief review of the Yeti…
Comments welcome.
iPhone to Windows Phone 7
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 tutorials, with a focus on the minimum you need to know to add Windows Phone 7 development to your skill set.
Hardware and Software Requirements
Hardware
For all practical purposes, your choices come down to using a PC or a Mac with Bootcamp and…
- 3 GB of disk space
- 2GB of RAM
- A DirectX 10 capable graphics card with the WDDM 1.1 driver.
| Note: you cannot run the Windows Phone 7 (WP7) Emulator under a virtual machine such as Parallels or Fusion |
Software
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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 twelve tests will appear on Monday, a viable solution will be provided 10 days later on the following Wednesday.
The solution I provide will tell you how to self-score your own solution (each on a scale of 0-100), and at the end I’ll try to provide a metric for the entire experience. 25 points for each bug you find in my code!
On the honor system you may post your scores into the book giveaway and I will give one of the top scorers a copy of the book. (Microsoft employees not eligible, void where prohibited, yadda yadda).
Please feel free to help one another by discussing the problem, ideas and questions in the comments for each exercise.
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Creating An Open Source WP7 Application
There has been some thrashing about the HyperVideo player. This note is both an update and an invitation for you to participate.
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