This will be a short post on sharing two little things I learnt while “Mangofying” one of my Windows Phone apps. One: We often use global placeholders/variables in your apps. These are usually defined in the App.xaml.cs and accessed throughout the project off of the App object. My good friend Travis Smith (@legomasternet) pointed out [...]
Archive for August, 2011
Two quick Windows Phone Dev Tips
Posted: August 28, 2011 in Windows Phone 7 StuffTags: toolkits, WPDev
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Mobile Smackdown & recap on DevLink 2011
Posted: August 21, 2011 in SpeakingTags: community, speaking
So, DevLink 2011 just wrapped up this Friday. For me, this was the first DevLink & hopefully many more to come. I found the conference to be rather well-organized, which regulars tell me should come as no surprise. I thought the Chattanooga Convention Center worked perfectly as venue with nice break-out rooms & plenty of [...]
Windows Azure & Windows Phone Firestarter Event!
Posted: August 18, 2011 in Azure Goodness, Speaking, Windows Phone 7 StuffTags: Azure, notifications, OData, speaking, WCF, WPDev
It is no surprise that Azure as a cloud computing infrastructure plays very nicely with mobile solutions, especially Windows Phone 7. So, when Michael Collier (@MichaelCollier) came up with the idea of doing a full-day event showcasing how the two technologies/platforms may work together, I was all for it! So was put together this event [...]
