June, 2011

Special thanks to John Dunagan / SouthWest Florida .NET and everyone else who came out to the Windows Phone Garage / XAPFest in Naples on Thursday, June 23rd. Lots of apps were worked on and several were actually published during the event. We also "found...

WIN THE GRAND TOURNAMENT and take home $5,000! Announcing the Rock Paper Azure Challenge International Grand Tournament July 13, 2011 Will your bot have what it takes to crush the coding competition? Play and find out! The Rock Paper Azure Challenge puts...

REGISTRATION OPEN / CALL FOR SPEAKERS OPEN What: SQL Saturday #79 South Florida When: Saturday, August 13, 2011 Where: Nova Southeastern University, Davie, FL 3301 College Avenue, Fort Lauderdale-Davie, FL 33314-7796 - Building 21 URL: http://www.sqlsaturday...

Joey did a bad, bad thing. I violated the warranty on my Dell Venue Pro Windows Phone. But sometimes good comes with bad. From my take, the "bad thing" was voiding the warranty on this particular Dell Venue Pro. But so far I think its worth it. The good...

I'm not normally a reblogger, but is a "necessary share". The VS team just released the first Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Visual Web Developer Express 2010 SP1. The VS team have focused on bringing the HTML5 support up-to-date...

A Florida .net programmer said to me yesterday, "I miss codecamps, we haven't had one in a while." Well, good news. As one of the locals put it, "the codecamp season has come around again". Jacksonville .NET CodeCamp VII (yes, seven) is happening in August...

Russ Fustino has decided to start a Windows Phone 7 Developer Group in the Tampa Bay Area. The first meeting will be Tuesday, June 28 6:00 PM at the Tampa Microsoft office. The speaker will be Joe Healy of Microsoft on Windows Phone Mango for Developers...

FLADEV SCENE - PICK OF THE FISHFRY Exponential Backoff by Herve Rogger (South Florida) - http://geekswithblogs.net/hroggero/archive/2011/05/26/cloud-lesson-learned-exponential-backoff.aspx Pod Rods by Jacksonville Times - free - http://www.wpcentral.com...

Want to get your $99 bucks back that you had to pay the Windows Phone AppHub? Easy to do! Get two apps published and fill out the form at http://phone.microsoftplatformready.com . Note the special offer only lasts till June 30th so you don't have too...

Confession time. One of my apps has a bug. When it tombstones, the app state is lost. So I was working away on getting my class to serialize into IsolatedStorage properly. One of my classes was an extension to a Collection. In a somewhat lazy fashion...

I was asked recently where "angry birds for ie9" was. My answer was Angry Birds is already there, kind of, for IE9. Actually its there for HTML5 browsers. Angry Birds was released as a HTML5/Flash app targeted for Chrome at http://chrome.angrybirds.com...

The latest Windows 8 announcements certainly created some buzz. Want to learn more? Sign up for BUILD September 13-16 in Anaheim - http://www.buildwindows.com . My short version. This is where you'll get real details on Win8. BUILD topics are going to...

One of my locals was having a tough time locating the Windows Phone "Mango" Training Kit . Search http://downloads.microsoft.com for mango, and nothing is there. So I thought I'd supply some the direct links. I also threw in a few of my other favorite...

Listing of Florida Microsoft Developer focused public events from June 1, 2011 and forward that I know about. Don't see your Microsoft oriented event in Florida listed? Let me know via the comments! Central Florida :: Central Florida :: Central Florida...