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Talking on designing apps for success
Last week, I had the pleasure of visiting AppCampus in Helsinki. While there, I spent time with each of the teams in residence reviewing their apps and their app strategy, and I…
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Windows Phone Dev Unlock for All
A couple weeks ago, as part of a fairly sizable ‘August update’ blog post, the Windows Phone team announced that they expanded developer unlocks to enable hobbyist developers to unlock their…
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Running the Windows Phone Emulator on Windows 8.1 Preview
Today is an exciting day at Build – the Windows 8.1 Preview is available for download! If you’re like me, you can’t wait to update your machine to take advantage of everything…
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DIY: Custom Water Table
I recently completed building a fairly basic, custom water table for my son. While there were some definite challenges with the construction process, I wanted to post up my design…
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Decks from my TechEd RU Sessions
Earlier this month, I spent a couple weeks in the Moscow area, talking with the Microsoft developer community about Windows Phone – presenting at TechEd Russia 2012 and stopping in…
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Parsing the WoW Armory
One of my side projects is working on a WoW Guild Roster. I’ve been doing a lot of work over the past couple months with Visual Studio 2008, although I’ve been stuck…
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Back from Travels to the East
I have returned from a couple weeks on the road. The month of October is turning out to be quite a busy one for me. As a result, I’ve been…
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More of Snoqualmie Valley Trail
We went and did some more biking on the SVT this past weekend – much of the same trail as the weekend before. We started at the same place, the…
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Rails to Trails
I went out for a bike ride this past weekend – we caught the Snoqualmie Valley Trail at the trail head in Duvall and then biked down a few miles to the south. It…
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Week 10 Progress
I passed the 16-week goal for the program this week, within week 11 of the program. And I’m in the process of tossing out (okay, donating…but tossing out sounds much…