…personally find programming with them and in C# far more pleasant that the options offered by The Esteemed Competition. As you'll see in the coming weeks and months, The Empire is putting all sorts of resources behind WP7, and a lot of developers are coming along for the ride.
We're movin' on up - join us!
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- Hampton Catlin - Home: Rhodes To Ruby
- How Software is Built: Interview with Stefano Fornari - CTO - Funambol
- Nick Hammond: Cloud based backup choices
- Brian's Tech Blog: Mobile Ruby - cool stuff
- MetaSpring Blog: The MetaSpring Blog Carnival: Issue 7 - Web Development
- Luigi Montanez: Respect the Browser - Lessons from JSConf 2009
…heaps of praise from all sorts of reviewers, including this one.
Limbo may just be the best Xbox Live Arcade game ever released, and I suspect it'll be in my "Top 5" for 2010. If you're looking for a stand-out game for your Xbox 360, Limbo is well worth the 1200 Microsoft Points.
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- braindump: Going cold turkey on physical media
...and regular posting will resume shortly.
(No, this photo isn't mine, nor is it representative of the food I had, but I thought it was a good "geek vacation" photo. I ate better and met some interesting people . You can click the photo to see it at full size in its junk food, video game nerdy glory.)
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- Luigi Montanez: Accessing Passenger sites from a Vista instance in VMware Fusion
- Developing with Style: Yahoo keeps going into open source and Web2.0
- DevChix: Apple's WWDC: A Whirlwind Tour
- Fun With Radiant: Jim Gay becomes new Lead Developer
- DABlog - Home: Starting a new job in December
- Pathfinder Development: Innovation and Treating Developers Like Adults
…six weeks before that conference. After that, you'll have to pay full price. (For example, TechDays Vancouver takes place on September 14th and 15th, which means the early bird price will not be available after the end of July.)
Don't wait too long and miss out on the early bird rate! Register for TechDays today!
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…downtown office
The registration fee is CDN$999 for the full-day training session, and you can save $ 100 by using the discount code WP7BOOTCAMP when you register . I repeat:
For the full details on the Windows Phone 7 Bootcamp, see the Windows Phone 7 Bootcamp page .
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- How Software is Built: Interview with Stefano Fornari - CTO - Funambol
- Brian's Tech Blog: Mobile Ruby - cool stuff
- Hampton Catlin - Home: Rhodes To Ruby
- Nick Hammond: Cloud based backup choices
- Luigi Montanez: Respect the Browser - Lessons from JSConf 2009
…release represents the near final version of the tools for building applications and games for Windows Phone 7."
Go ahead, go and download it ! Click the big graphic link below. You know you want to.
Make sure you uninstall previous versions of Windows Phone Developer Tools before you install the beta.
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- How Software is Built: Interview with Shay David - Co-founder of Kaltura
- Nick Hammond: Cloud based backup choices
- Brian's Tech Blog: Mobile Ruby - cool stuff
- Luigi Montanez: Respect the Browser - Lessons from JSConf 2009
- Hampton Catlin - Home: Rhodes To Ruby
…it: find featured articles in Techmeme , write something intelligent about it in your blog (don't forget to link to the article!) and keep doing it. Like a lot of other things in tech, as long as you've got the threshold amount of smarts, it's all about perseverance.
If you take on this challenge, let me know how it goes!
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- Edd Dumbill's Weblog: Behind the Times: Tolling the bell for the gatekeepers
The co-hosts' picks of the week are:
Larry's pick: Building "God's Own Machine", a computer that scores 7.9 on the Windows Experience Index
Dan's pick: A robot that can fetch and even open beers
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…so your app gets attritted
From all the top ten lists, losing all worth,
It's a digital coaster, like " Battlefield Earth"!
My apps sell anywhere, and update on the fly.
You can't have your cake OR eat it, 'cause the cake is a lie.
Thanks to John Bristowe for finding this!
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- MetaSpring Blog: The MetaSpring Blog Carnival: Issue 1
- Signal vs. Noise: Picking a firm from Sortfolio to redesign Signal vs. Noise
…, our programming languages essentially boil down to three things: sequence, selection and iteration, and every construct within those languages is some combination of them. In the keynote, Uncle Bob explains this essence and considers the implications, in classic " Uncle Bob" style, which includes, of all things, a drum solo at the beginning.
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- zerosum dirt(nap) - Home: Railsconf 2009 Recap
- Envy Labs: Upcoming Conferences
- Riding Rails - home: Ruby and Rails Conferences 2010
- { :from => Delhi, :about => everything }: RailsConf 2010
- Blue Box Group: News: RailsConf 2010 - 1 Week Away!
- Rails Inside: Want To Speak At RailsConf 2010? Submit Your Proposals Now