This is the Day #3 post in the article series “7 Deadly Sins for Windows Phone Developers!“. What is Sloth ? From http://deadlysins.com: Sloth is the avoidance of physical or spiritual work. Why: You’re shiftless, lazy, and good fer nuthin’. How does Sloth relate to Windows Phone development ? – failure to utilize resources .. [...]
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WPDev Sin: Sloth
Posted: February 1, 2012 in Azure Goodness, Windows Phone 7 StuffTags: 7DeadlySins, WPDev, WPResources
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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 [...]
Updating OData data source from WP7 .. Part 1
Posted: July 24, 2011 in Azure Goodness, Windows Phone 7 StuffTags: Azure, OData, WCF, WP7Dev
This will be a longish post .. you have been warned I think OData is rather cool .. head over (here) to learn more, if you haven’t already. There is nothing proprietary about it; just culmination of existing technologies of HTTP, AtomPub and Json to provide a platform independent way of sharing information. As I [...]
Another cloud enabled WP7 Wx app .. Part Trois: The Cloud Service
Posted: July 3, 2011 in Azure Goodness, Windows Phone 7 StuffTags: notifications, WP7Dev
This post is a continuation of Part 1 (here) & Part 2 (here) of the series on setting up a cloud-enabled Weather app for Windows Phone. By now, we have a fully working Windows Phone app which allows the user to pull up weather forecasts for any city of their choice. We also Push Enabled [...]
Getting the Windows Azure WP7 Toolkit demo to work
Posted: May 9, 2011 in Azure Goodness, Windows Phone 7 StuffTags: Azure, WP7Dev
With Windows Phone 7, we have always been encouraged to think of a mobile solution to be not just the one that runs as an app on the phone; it can be so much more. Modern smartphones, as highly as we think of them, are still not very powerful devices and one always has to [...]
EF4.1, MVC3, SQL Azure & WP7 – All in a bucket!
Posted: May 2, 2011 in Azure Goodness, Windows Phone 7 StuffTags: Azure, MVC, WP7Dev
All the technologies in the post name are rather hip & happening, right?. There was tons of web stack love shown off at the Microsoft MIX11 conference with MVC3 goodness & the amazing things Entity Framework 4.1 is capable of doing. Azure is off course a beast; but makes it incredibly easy to play with [...]
