October 30, 2012
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I posted this originally on The MarkedUp Analytics Blog, going to put an excerpt here and then link you to the original post. 1. “Microsoft can only win by training consumers to expect consistent ...
October 18, 2012
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I haven’t posted much about my startup, MarkedUp, over the past couple of weeks on this blog (although I’ve been quite busy on the MarkedUp blog) so I figured it was time for an update on the compa...
December 22, 2011
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In addition to my regular work for Microsoft and the open source projects I create and contribute to on Github, I also like to ship the occasional app or website under my StannardLabs masthead. M...
May 24, 2011
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I am pleased to announce something very exciting that Microsoft is doing in my neighborhood of Santa Monica, California: we’re putting together XAPFest, a massive Windows Phone 7 hackathon ai...
April 26, 2011
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Tonight I gave a brief talk to WinMo LA about using Geolocation Services and Bing Maps on Windows Phone 7. I mostly covered the APIs and controls that developers can use in the current Windows Phon...
April 8, 2011
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I spent about three hours banging my head against the wall trying to figure out why my browser could connect to the Internet but the Windows Phone 7 emulator couldn’t, and if you find yoursel...
January 12, 2011
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I’m in the midst of working on a line of related Windows Phone 7 MVVM Light applications which are all built on the upcoming release of Quick and Dirty Feed Parser, which includes Silverlight...
December 7, 2010
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This is a quick post, but for anybody who isn’t using Expression Blend (which automatically puts all of the Windows Phone 7 icons for you in a drop-down list as default resource values for images)...
November 5, 2010
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I gave a talk at Code Camp Los Angeles a couple of weekends ago on how to consume REST APIs in .NET – the emphasis was really on understanding RESTful principles and on the OAuth workflows + implem...
September 26, 2010
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I’ve been leaning heavily on Laurent Bugnion’s MVVM Light Toolkit framework in the course of learning Windows Phone 7[footnote:If you're interested in developing for Windows Phone 7, y...
September 21, 2010
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I wrote this example in conjunction with the lightning talk I gave at SHDH #40 on MVVM for Noobs, and I thought that developers who are new to developing in Silverlight or for Windows Phone 7 might...
September 18, 2010
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I'm at Microsoft's Silicon Valley Campus this weekend where we're hosting SuperHappyDevHouse #40 - I'm going to be giving a lightning talk on MVVM for Noobs in the next hour or so and I wanted to p...