…Windows Mobile MVP and one Microsoft Canada's go-to guys for Windows Phone development.
Colinizer: Colin Melia's blog - he's another of our go-to guys for Windows Phone development, he's running the WP7 bootcamp, and a Silverlight expert as well.
On Windows Phone 7: Clarity Consulting's blog featuring "musings on design and development for Windows Phone 7".
Ozymandias: WP7 Team member Andre Vrignaud's blog.
Shawn Hargreaves…
- 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
Retired emperor Bill Gates
1: Microsoft sank at least a quarter of a billion dollars into the Kin, its recently canceled cellphone. This is on top of its $500m acquisition of Danger, absorbed in order to develop it. Notwithstanding Kin's shortcomings as a product, the most entertaining aspect of the cock-up is that it appears to be the result of ego battles in Redmond: rumor has it that Kin was throttled in its billion-dollar crib by an executive who saw it as a threat to Windows Mobile…
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Blog postings are going to be light until Monday, July 26th, because I'm taking a real, honest-to-goodness, shut-off-the-computer, get-away-from-home vacation! If you're looking for reading material, may I suggest:
The Windows Phone Developer Blog
Reddit's "Programming" subreddit
- MetaSpring Blog: The MetaSpring Blog Carnival: Issue 7 - Web Development
- Luigi Montanez: Respect the Browser - Lessons from JSConf 2009
- How Software is Built: Interview with Shay David - Co-founder of Kaltura
- Hampton Catlin - Home: Rhodes To Ruby
- Nick Hammond: Cloud based backup choices
- Brian's Tech Blog: Mobile Ruby - cool stuff
…mobile developers away from the incumbent platforms Symbian, Java ME and Windows Phone, while a substantial number of PC software developers have flocked to iPhone and Android
The reason for this migration might be attributable to the large market penetration, speed of development, potential to make money, and low cost dev tools as reasons for initially choosing Android.
Bootstrapping a Prototype-based Object-oriented Language in 44 Lines of Code
Ever dreamed of creating …
- The Queue Blog: Daily Review #39
- Signal vs. Noise: Staying on message
- Vineet Gupta | Computer Programmer: Azure - Microsoft's Cloud Platform
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…mobile devices. Flash doesn't have any adoption on IP-enabled TVs, set-top boxes, Windows Mobile phones, Android phones, iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches.
Only a relatively small portion of devices can support Flash, and while its absolute adoption numbers might be increasing because the PC market is still growing, it has declined as a percentage of the overall 'screens' out there.
I think there is an opportunity for open formats to take Flash's place, and HTML5 …
…App Store, the Google Apps Store, and soon Microsoft's Windows Mobile 7, there are many opportunities to go and build new technology and bring it to market.
Scott: The majority of people we talk to are involved with open source projects, or their business is wrapped around an open source project. There is the perception in some quarters that open source is trendy, and there is more interest in a product that has an open source component to it, versus something fully proprietary. …
Initially I thought there was just dropbox. Then when I got my G1 I found out about SugarSync since they have mobile apps for all of the common smart phones such as iPhone, Blackberry, Android and Windows Mobile. Recently I've been looking for a backup solution because I want to be prepared in the case of an [...]
- Luigi Montanez: Respect the Browser - Lessons from JSConf 2009
- Hampton Catlin - Home: Rhodes To Ruby
- Lance: The Android Needs a Better E-Mail client
- Hackido: Review: SE HBH-IS800Z Bluetooth Headset for Android
- Litany Against Fear: The many facets of Ruby at AT&T Interactive Notes
Shameless plug here - I'm working for a cool startup in Cupertino that has brought ruby to the mobile device. You write apps in ruby and html, quite similar to rails apps, and then you can deploy your app on several mobile platforms. From their website:
Rhomobile's open source mobile application framework Rhodes lets you quickly build native mobile applications for all smartphone operating systems: iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian…
…iPhone, Android, and Blackberry (with Palm Pre, Windows Mobile, and Nokia on the way), PhoneGap lets you write your web app (in HTML+Javascript) once, and have it available for all supported platforms (along with proper skinning for the target platform). PhoneGap also comes built in with offline storage support, and does other nice things for you like geolocation and harnessing the accelerometer.
One final framework worth mentioning is Titanium . This is the easiest …
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Bob Caswell from Microsoft's Learning division told me about some free online training that's available for developers wanting to get a head-start on Windows Phone 7 Development. Here's the skinny from the Born to Learn blog:
Get Trained for FREE - Windows Phone 7 Jump Start
Windows Phone 7 Jump Start is a FREE virtual live class for developers interested in developing applications and games for Windows Phone 7. The course is organized into four virtual …
- Hampton Catlin - Home: Rhodes To Ruby
- Brian's Tech Blog: Mobile Ruby - cool stuff
- How Software is Built: Interview with Stefano Fornari - CTO - Funambol
- Nick Hammond: Cloud based backup choices
- MetaSpring Blog: The MetaSpring Blog Carnival: Issue 7 - Web Development
- Luigi Montanez: Respect the Browser - Lessons from JSConf 2009