mvp Microsoft MVP - ASP.NET This year started off with a nice surprise, an email with the subject "Congratulations 2014 Microsoft MVP!" I am humbled and excited, as this is the first time for me, and as always to be a part of such a great community.
apps Being a successful mobile developer - Windows Phone, Marketing & Xamarin Why Windows Phone? This is not a new question, but a question or topic that I get involved a lot. Why do you have a Windows Phone? Why do you build apps for that platform? You should be learning Java and Objective C and
windows__phone Presenting Azure Mobile Services @ DVLUP Day Tampa 11/16/2013 Nokia, through its DVLUP program, is putting on DVLUP day in various cities from Nov. 16 - Dec 6. I'll be in Tampa on the 16th of November presenting Azure Mobile Services. I'll give an overview of: Getting Started Push Notifications Visual Studio 2013
windows__phone Azure Mobile Services & Portable Class Libraries - Part 2 Authentication Cont'd In Part 1 I covered a simple implementation of the Authentication feature and portable class libraries from the Azure Mobile Services SDK. However, as mentioned in the "Good & Bad So Far" section; there is not a whole lot of code reuse
windows__phone Azure Mobile Services & Portable Class Libraries - Part 1 Authentication Azure Mobile Services is undoubtedly one of the best platforms to emerge from the Azure group over the last year. If you are a mobile developer and not taking advantage of it; I encourage you to do so. There are many video and blog
telerik Cross Mobile Development with Icenium I have recently spent some time with Telerik's new product offering for cross mobile development called Icenium and I have to say it is quite nice. Paired with KendoUI Mobile you can't go wrong with a great set of tools for cross mobile platform
aspnet Custom Routing with IRouteConstraint for ASP.NET Web API I will admit that Regex and I do not speak anymore. In fact, even when we did it was never a really nice conversation and sometimes ended in me cursing and/or leaving the room. If you have had this same experience when creating
code__camp South Florida Code Camp I will be giving two talks this Saturday at South Florida Code Camp, being held at Nova University in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. For directions and more information visithttp://www.fladotnet.com/codecamp/. Schedule for other sessions here. My Sessions Introduction to ASP.NET Web
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code_project Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm... Over the past month I have had the opportunity to give some thought to what I wanted to accomplish this year in my life, career, and health. And during those times of thought I have often gone back to a speech I listened or
windows__phone Portable MVVM Light - Move Your View Models : Part 2 In the first part I covered how to get the initial project setup and share the ViewModels and ViewModelLocator between a Windows Phone 8 project and a Windows Store Application. In this post, I'll add a DataService and a Model class that will be
windows__phone Portable MVVM Light - Move Your View Models Portable Class Libraries Portable Class Libraries were added as a project type in the interest of creating an assembly that you could use across the .NET Framework, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, or Xbox 360 platforms without modifications. Well, not really that easy. There is
windows_8 Picking the Right Tools for Your Project CodeProjectOver the weekend I was able to release the first of many Windows 8 applications (Download and Rate here) into the store that I have been working on. This first one is just a RSS type application for DZone.com, but it just the
windows__phone Developer Days at Microsoft Store Developer Workshops Joe Healy (@devfish) and I have been hosting workshops at the Microsoft Store in Orlando at the Florida Mall over the past few Thursdays. The current series has been focusing on Windows Store Apps, including game application development. Joe presented this past
microsoft__store Paparazzi at the Microsoft Store! I'm Famous! What's really "completely embarrassing" as he so states in his post is the lack of observation. Original post here... First, yes I was and do in fact use a MacBook Pro and run Windows 8 on it. However the the sneaky photo
mvvmlight Tampa Code Camp I will be giving two talks this Saturday at Tampa Code Camp, being held at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Fl. For directions and more information visit http://www.tampacodecamp.com. Schedule for other sessions here. My Sessions Introduction to ASP.NET
winrt TypeScript for Windows 8 Store Apps What is TypeScript? See http://www.typescriptlang.org TypeScript was recently released and has become the new hot topic. One of the questions I have asked and heard is can we use this for developing Windows Store Applications with Javascript and have the cool
mvvmlight Richmond Code Camp I will be giving two talks this Saturday at Richmond Code Camp, being held at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Va. For directions and more information visit http://richmondcodecamp.org/and/or follow @CodeCamp on Twitter. Schedule for other sessions here. My Sessions
mvvmlight RadCustomHubTile from Telerik for Windows 8 UI Introduction Telerik recently released their Windows 8 UI Controls to RC on September 18th (see post here), and this is probably on the first in a series of posts I will put out showing them off. The first control here is the RadCustomHubTile. I
code__camp User Groups - What do you want from them? There are many user groups, meetups, developer groups, etc depending on where you live that are available to get involved in. This is one of many ways to meet other developers, see what they are doing, what projects and so fourth are going on
windows__phone Amber Alerts for Windows Phone - Find Amber: I built it! Find Amber Available for Windows Phone Find Amber has finally been approved and is now available in the Windows Phone Store! This project is close to me, and not in a "I have lost a child" way thank God. But I do
mvvmlight SimpleIoc and the Messenger Service in MVVM Light CodeProject The SimpleIoc addition in the most recent version of MVVMLight is a great add and really simplified the ViewModelLocator across all of the platforms supported in this framework. If you are not familiar with MVVM Light or what you types of project platforms
mobile What are you looking for as a Mobile Developer in a Blog Post? The mobile development industry has probably the greatest up swing in comparison to the other development paths over the last 5 years. What I mean is that many more developers are focusing on either getting into mobile development (as in native apps), making sure
mvvmlight Southwest Florida Code Camp I will be giving two talks this Saturday at Southwest Florida Code Camp. If you are interested in hearing about ASP.NET WebAPI and/or MVVM Light, stop by either of my talks. 8:30 - 9:40 AM (Room 128) - Introduction to
windows__phone Looking at Windows Azure Mobile Services with Fiddler CodeProject As usual throughout the day I have MetroTwit open and toast are constantly popping up here and there and I glance over to see what’s what. Then I see. from @WindowsAzure this: And all work stopped for me to check this out.
