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See me blather about software development, Gadgets, Technology, Fatherhood, plus anything else that gets me going.
This post describes a method of using Project Siena with Excel data that can be updated later...
Date: 10/10/2014
You can name your phone to whatever you like, but how can an app display that name? There isn't an...
Date: 11/09/2013
If you are a fan of System.Diagnostics.Contracts and use them on WP8 you may find a problem: when a...
Date: 10/18/2013
So there you are, cranking out some new C/C++ (or CX/C++) code on Windows Phone. Its all new, so you...
Date: 06/17/2013
Keyboards are a very personal thing. For those of us whose job requires their use basically all day,...
Date: 04/03/2013
With UPnP discovery worked out, the next feature is to turn the discovery results into a Device,...
Date: 01/08/2012
I recently had a desperate need to upgrade the audio system in my car, and wanted a good...
Date: 09/27/2011
Finding your IP address I have already covered, now for the next useful thing: your SSID name....
Date: 08/30/2011
[Update: SSDP is WORKING now: all code updated] I have been on a mission for maybe six months now to...
Date: 08/24/2011
For reasons never adequately explained there is still no API to obtain the IP address of the phone...
Date: 08/11/2011
I have already covered using WCF from Windows Phone 7 with my quick walk-through , but now, some...
Date: 02/02/2011
The LongListSelector control is an awesome thing, but using it without LINQ I found a tricky...
Date: 11/19/2010
[Minor code update Jan 15 2010] It may come as a surprise to some, but applications sometimes crash....
Date: 11/01/2010
Two years ago Disney predicted that Blu-ray sales would overtake DVD in two years. Like pretty much...
Date: 10/25/2010
Windows Phone 7 and WCF: a great combination, but can be tricky to get going. Here is how I did...
Date: 09/20/2010
With the release of the RTM version of the Windows Phone 7 developer tools, some folks are running...
Date: 09/17/2010
Data breakpoints are both incredibly useful when you need them and yet can cause extreme pain under...
Date: 08/06/2010
If you set a [native] breakpoint by address, then restart your debugger session the breakpoint will...
Date: 08/06/2010
Both my wife and I are happy KIN users so I thought I would share some information that might be...
Date: 07/15/2010
[Updated June 1st to correct ATM information and to add PayPal option] Recently I had the need to...
Date: 04/15/2010
Since the demise of HD DVD (RIP) I have been working on the secret “Pink project” at...
Date: 04/13/2010
Gratuitous post time: my wife has been doing a great job dealing with various food sensitivity...
Date: 09/23/2009
In a matter of days it will be the 40th anniversay of Apollo 11 landing on the moon, a seminal...
Date: 07/15/2009
In frankly amazing news even to me, a new Harris Poll shows that over a year and a half since the...
Date: 06/18/2009
How do you debug a movie? Before I get too old and forget, here is the story of one bug that I had...
Date: 03/05/2009
I've been enjoying my Zune installation for a while now, but I had one thing that bugged me:...
Date: 02/20/2009
Chances are that you have never heard of the Sinclair QL. However if you are as old as me and...
Date: 01/12/2009
For some inexplicable reason Zune playlists (ZPL) are different from Windows Media Player playlists...
Date: 08/23/2008
Following on the theme of trying to make it easier for my kids to watch movies in the car but...
Date: 07/13/2008
A few months ago I did some work involving the VMR9, and I hit several brick walls. Many of these...
Date: 07/10/2008
Normally I renew my car tabs online with a credit or debit card, but that wasn't possible this week...
Date: 06/19/2008
It's all my fault. I'm terribly sorry. Something critical happened in October 2007 that I forgot to...
Date: 02/20/2008
If you are attending the Sundance Film Festival, please drop by the Microsoft House on Main Street...
Date: 01/17/2008