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Thanks to some awesome work from my partner in crime at Cricketsoft, Tom Allen, our co-developed app, FotoMovr is featured in the Windows Phone Marketplace today. Both on the phone, the Marketplace website, and in the Zune client. Here’s some evidence...
I’ve been part of teams that practice Agile software development methods for quite a while now. My own team at work has been doing things in an agile manner since about 2008. Before that I was a co-founder of the Agile SIG (Special Interest Group) at...
A few weeks ago I attended Microsoft’s BUILD conference to get ready for what’s coming in Windows 8. As I was sitting in the first day’s keynotes and big picture sessions, I couldn’t help but think back on the work HP has done with its TouchSmart software...
Now that //build/ is over, lots of people want to download the sessions they missed because there was an ocean of stuff being presented and you couldn’t possibly catch it all live. One way to do this is to use a PowerShell script (I found one here). Here...
This is part two of a “miniseries” on my forays into mobile development. Part one is here. My interest in Windows Phone 7 development grew partly out of my experience with writing a simple app for WebOS and partly out of conversations with...
This is the first of a two part “miniseries” of my forays into developing for mobile platforms. After Phil McKinney announced a WebOS app development contest at HP’s internal technology conference, Tech Con ’10, I was somewhat...
As I’m diving into Windows Phone 7 development and making notes for myself on how WP7 compares to WebOS, I’ve come across one little wrinkle that works really nicely in WebOS (out-of-the-box) and doesn’t work so well in WP7 (out-of-the-box). I’m talking...
If you’re working on a Windows Phone 7 app that uses the Bing Map control, you might be interested in these little differences between the Desktop version and the Phone version of the map control. 1. The Location type on the Phone has no constructor that...
This evening I was attempting to go through the first lab of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Training Kit and discovered that I couldn’t even finish the first exercise because Visual Studio wouldn’t resolve the resources for the fonts used in the project...
Some people might find this useful, so I thought I’d write it up. If you want to create a multi-language MSI (Windows Installer package) that works without a bootstrapper executable, this is one possible way to do it. It relies on an undocumented feature...
To mark the release of the TouchSmart 3.0 SDK, HP has a goodie to give away at the Microsoft PDC 09: A super-slim 2 GB USB memory stick (embedded in a hard-plastic business card with a nice imprint). It contains the new SDK and a few documents about a...
Today HP is announcing a new Software Development Kit for helping you write apps that play well in the HP TouchSmart “shell” environment. The new SDK still contains the general guidelines that outline both what makes a good app that’s optimized for touch...
There is a document available for download (wrapped in an MSI to keep the HP lawyers happy) that describes all the nitty-gritty details of how to create an app that “fits” into the HP TouchSmart software environment. But some people might...
You may never have heard of ACCU, the Association of C and C++ Users as it was originally called. It is a volunteer organization, consisting of programmers who care about programming. The ACCU publishes two magazines, both devoted to raising the standards...
A lot has been written about how Windows Vista Ultimate was a major disappointment. First it was billed as the version that would “keep on giving” in the form of Ultimate Extras – cool new features that would be exclusive to Ultimate...
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