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Ben Riga's Deep Shift
Top Ranked – Market Testing
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7 days ago
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In this episode we talk about pricing and more generically about market testing. I know, I know, marketing is probably not every coders favorite subject. I bring it up as I’ve noticed many apps in the marketplace that are underpriced. Apps that...
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Top Ranked – Benefiting from Trial Mode
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21 days ago
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In this episode of Top Ranked I explore Trial mode. Trial mode is one of the most important features available to you as a developer if you’re building a paid app. By implementing Trial mode in your app you give consumers the opportunity to take...
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Top Ranked: Supporting all Markets
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28 days ago
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Note: This video is the first in the series so I spend some time at the beginning introducing myself and the goals for the series. To get directly to the content in this episode skip to about the 4:00 mark. When we launched the Windows Phone...
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Introducing: Top Ranked
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28 days ago
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With this post I’m introducing a new series of videos I’m producing which called Top Ranked. In this series I’ll present various topics that will be of interest to developers building on the Windows Phone platform. My aim is to provide short...
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A Lap Around Mango
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7 months ago
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I had a great time presenting to the Bay.NET user group last week. With so much to talk about I ran out of time so I’m posting my slides for those that wanted to go a little further. Click on the folder below to view them. Let me know...
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BackKeyPress and LostFocus Colliding
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over 2 years ago
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I’m working on a Windows Phone 7 app and ran into an issue that I just couldn’t figure out. I was trapping the LostFocus event on a TextBox and finding that by handling the LostFocus event I was losing the case where the user hit the Back Key since...
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PDC on your Windows Phone 7
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over 2 years ago
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Vertigo Software just released their PDC10 Windows Phone 7 app. That’s going to make it a lot easier to follow along this year. If you have a WP7 device go download it now . This year we’ll be broadcasting pretty much every minute of the PDC...
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Windows Phone 7 Development Jump-Start Events
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over 2 years ago
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As part of our efforts to help developers get started with building their applications and games on the Windows Phone 7 platform we’re planning a couple of events in Redmond (May 18-19) and Silicon Valley (May 25-26). If you’re interested, be sure...
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Windows Azure Lessons Learned: RiskMetrics
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over 2 years ago
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In this episode of “Azure Lessons Learned” Rob Fraser from RiskMetrics talks about the work they’ve done with Windows Azure to scale some of their heavy computational workloads out to thousands of nodes on Windows Azure. RiskMetrics specializes in helping...
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The Steady Progress of Storage
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over 2 years ago
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I’m building a Windows Media Center for a home theater setup I’m planning and in the process was installing a new hard drive into the PC. Before I dropped it into the new machine I was showing it to my son and pulled out an old drive I had for comparison...
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SQL Azure Lessons Learned: ESRI
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over 2 years ago
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In this episode of Lessons Learned I chat with Rex Hansen of ESRI . Rex works on MapIt ; a product for visualizing enterprise data on maps. This was recently released as a on-premises product that enables developers to work with the tabular...
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SQL Azure Lessons Learned: Telerik
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over 2 years ago
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Telerik is one of the more popular component vendors building good stuff for ASP.NET, Silverlight, and WPF. I was intrigued by the interest they have taken in the Windows Azure Platform. Naturally all the UI components just work on the platform...
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Windows Azure Lessons Learned: Quest Software
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over 2 years ago
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In this episode of Azure Lessons Learned I chat with Dmitry Sotnikov, new product research manager with Quest Software. Quest, as you probably know, is a huge global ISV focused primarily on Systems Management software. Quest is an early adopter...
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Samsung Blackjack II Annoyances
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over 2 years ago
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I’ve been thinking a lot about Windows Mobile lately (more on that, a lot more, later). As I looked at the device I’ve been carrying for the past year or so ( Samsung Blackjack II ) I’ve found a few things annoying so I recently set about fixing...
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Windows Azure Lessons Learned: CCH
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over 3 years ago
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In this episode of Lessons Learned we talk with Jones Pavan and Gurleen Randhawa of CCH about tax and accounting! No wait stick around, that stuff can be exciting too. Yes, really! :) The good folks at CCH (a Wolters Kluwer company)...
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Windows Azure Lessons Learned: Active Web Solutions
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over 3 years ago
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There are not many solutions that can claim to have saved lives. In this episode of Lessons Learned I chat with Richard Prodger of Active Web Solutions about the Windows Azure project they’ve been working on that tracks fishermen in real time . ...
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Windows Azure Lessons Learned: GoGrid
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over 3 years ago
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One question that is often asked is how hosters can benefit from the Windows Azure Platform. While the platform can be used to deploy many types of web apps we expect many partners including hosters to develop on top of the Windows Azure platform...
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Windows Azure Lessons Learned: Invensys
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over 3 years ago
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In this episode of Windows Azure Lessons Learned I chat with Paul Forney, System Architect for Invensys and Aleksey Savateyev , Senior Architect in Microsoft’s Global ISV group working with Invensys. Invensys is well known for industrial automation...
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SQL Azure Lessons Learned: Embarcadero
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over 3 years ago
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Database tooling is important for many developers and DBAs as they manage numerous databases across the enterprise and the cloud. In this episode of Azure Lessons Learned I chat with Scott Walz, Sr. Director Product Management at Embarcadero Technologies...
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Windows Azure Lessons Learned: Outback Steakhouse Facebook App
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over 3 years ago
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I’m back with another episode of Azure Lessons Learned. In this one I discuss building apps that need to be able to scale very highly very quickly. Jim Zimmerman , the CTO and Lead Developer for Thuzi , walks me through the Facebook application...
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Windows Azure Lessons Learned: Quark Software
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over 3 years ago
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In this episode of Azure Lessons Learned I chat with Stephan Friedl, Chief Architect at Quark Software . Quark (of Quark XPress fame ) has been built a new business called Quark Promote for small and medium business to design and print high-quality...
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Windows Azure Lessons Learned: Kelley Blue Book
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over 3 years ago
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As I mentioned, over the past few months I’ve been working on a number of activities related to the Windows Azure Platform. In particular, I’ve been working with several partners as we prepared for the PDC’09 conference. While we were preparing...
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Dynamics CRM Blogs
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over 3 years ago
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I had been maintaining a list of Dynamics CRM-related blogs that I tried to read on a regular basis. I thought I’d make that list available to folks in the community as I’m sure others will find that interesting. I haven’t been maintaining...
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Catching Up and PDC’09: So many sessions; so little time
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over 3 years ago
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I’ve been busy. For the past 5 months or so I’ve been working on something completely different. I moved out of the Dynamics world :( and into the Azure world :) . In July I was asked to help out with the PDC planning. David Aiken ’s...
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PDC09 Backstage during the keynote
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over 3 years ago
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Sitting in the audience of the keynote I never had any idea how much work and how many people were involved in pulling together that one event. This year at PDC, when Ray Ozzie's keynote kicked off, I pulled out my video camera and walked around back...
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