…what's allowed and not allowed in an app, are clearly specified in the Windows Phone 7 Application Certification Requirements [ PDF, 513K]. Download it and get familiar with the Marketplace policies.
Your Turn: What Should You Do?
I'll close with the words of Brandon Watson, Director, Developer Experience and one of the guys on the WP7 team:
Register at the marketplace today
Finish your application or game using the Beta tools
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…authorization. We solve this at the network level. Certificate Depot only listens to localhost. Application instances access the Depot through an SSH tunnel to the secure instance.
By keeping the architecture simple we archieve what I like to call Security Through Clarity . The secure instance key is only needed when booting up new application or secure instances so only a few people need access to it. The single point of entry makes the secure instance less vulnerable to attacks. …
…under railties lib directory covering classes such as Railtie, Engine, Application and will go through initialization with initializers.
Along the way I'll show some examples how you can use this knowledge in your own gem or plugin.
Nothing too fancy but should be useful for developing your next Rails 3 project.
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Applications and Gemfiles
I should be clear that this versioning advice doesn't necessarily apply to an application using Bundler. That's because the Gemfile.lock , which you should check into version control , essentially converts all >= dependencies into hard dependencies. However, because you may want to run bundle update at some point in the future, which will update everything to the latest possible versions, you might want to use version specifiers in your …
…since You should avoid storing large objects in session) until object stored that way started to grow. Application was collecting some data and amount of data stored have grown to that point that after Marshal.dump size of string was more than 64 kB. And this is default size of text field used to store session data in MySQL.
When You try to store too much data in text field in MySQL, excessive data is being truncated, so Marshal.load throws that exception.
To have that error solved …
Building a Silverlight Application, Part 1
Building a Silverlight Application, Part 2
Building Games for the Windows Phone 7 Platform
Building XNA Games for the Windows Phone 7 Platform, Part 1
Building XNA Games for the Windows Phone 7 Platform, Part 2
Advanced Application Development, Part 1
Advanced Application Development, Part 2
Advanced Application Development, Part 3
Marketing …
Going from Modules to Sub Applications
We know that we can't have Modules in a different version so we switched our logic to use Sub Applications instead. It is convinient to rely on ModuleManager to handle multiple instances of multiple Modules. We already had an Interface implemented for communication with Modules and the same one would be used for Sub Applications. These Modules also had a purpose of existing as independent apps so we scratched …
Ezra Zygmuntowicz in a heart warming account of his 4 Years at Engine Yard , has concluded in his experience that: the true future of cloud computing for developers is to not think about servers at all. It is now time to focus on the Application and new levels of abstraction that allow folks to use the computing resources in easier and easier ways.
Tweets of Gold:
bryanlatten : Nothing like a million caching layers to screw up an already complicated deployment. Thankfully, there is beer.