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Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 08/03/2012
WP7 Code: Mocking Event Streams with IEnumerable
A few weeks ago I showed how to represent computations involving geo locations or accelerometer...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 12/12/2010
WP7 Code: Using the Accelerometer API
My previous blog posts on WP7 Code covered the GeoLocation API, a surface area that...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 11/01/2010
WP7 Code: Managing Application State
Visual Studio and the Windows Phone Developer Tools make building software for the Windows...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 10/26/2010
WP7 Code: Geofencing with the GeoLocation API and Rx
Besides providing geographical coordinates, computing distances, and making reverse geocoding...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 10/13/2010
WP7 Code: Reverse GeoCoding with the Bing Maps Service
My previous blog posts showed how to obtain location as an event stream from the Windows...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 10/07/2010
WP7 Code: Distance Computations with the GeoLocation API
In my previous post I showed the most interesting code fragments for a location-aware Windows...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 09/29/2010
WP7 Code: Using the GeoLocation API
I’m kicking off a series of blog posts focused on writing Windows Phone 7 code with one of...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 09/21/2010
Coming Soon: Windows Phone 7 Blog Posts
It’s been an embarrassingly long time since my last post on this blog. Several cool projects in the...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 09/08/2010
Web Sandbox available under the Apache License
Earlier today we announced releasing the runtime code of the Web Sandbox available under the Open...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 01/28/2009
Live Labs Thumbtack and Seadragon Mobile
By now this is already old news, but here it goes. Last week Live Labs released two cool projects:...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 12/15/2008
Web Sandbox in Azure Color
Earlier today we rolled out an updated version of Live Labs Web Sandbox CTP, a technology for...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 12/10/2008
Live Labs Web Sandbox
Earlier today we launched a technology preview for Web Sandbox, a project aimed at securing Web 2.0....
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 10/24/2008
Political Streams Online
A project I've been involved with for the first part of the year is now live, just in time for the...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 10/10/2008
Building Distributed Applications with Recompilers
My article Volta: Developing Distributed Applications by Recompiling (co-authored with Brian Beckman...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 08/25/2008
Pattern Languages for Web Programming
My colleague J.D. Meier asked for an example of what I consider to be a good pattern language. I...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 08/13/2008
Web 2.0 Patterns Wiki
Last week a group comprising Felix Nyffenegger, Judith Bishop, Duane Nickull, Marco Brambilla, Marco...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 07/09/2008
Web 2.0 Pattern Mining Workshop
Monday June 30 we're kicking off the Web 2.0 Pattern Mining Workshop at the TOOLS Europe conference,...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 06/24/2008
Volta Job Opportunities
We have two job opportunities in the Volta team: Software Development Engineer (232909) Software...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 06/12/2008
Web 2.0 Patterns
During the last decade software patterns emerged as one of the most successful forms of reuse. The...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 03/21/2008
PLoP 2008 Call for Papers
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Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 03/13/2008
ICWSM 2008
One of the things that surprised me at OOPSLA 2007 was the amount of traction that social media is...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 03/13/2008
Blews in the Seattle PI via TechFest 2008 Coverage
TechFest 2008 takes place this week in Redmond. The Seattle PI has a piece about it, and it's great...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 03/06/2008
With Miguel de Icaza on Open Source, Mono, and Moonlight
A few weeks ago I attended Lang.NET Symposium. Charles Torre asked me to participate in a...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 02/18/2008
Ajax Patterns, the C# 3.0 Way
Ajax patterns represent solutions to common problems facing the developers of Ajax applications. The...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 01/11/2008
EuroPLoP 2008 Call for Participations
Via my fellow Hillsiders from Europe, here's the Final Call for Papers for EuroPLoP 2008. As I...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 01/04/2008
Deploying Volta Web Applications
A typical Volta application comprises client and server elements. For a web application (Volta also...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 01/03/2008
Tier-split Refactoring WinForms Applications with Volta
The Volta quickstart as well as Wes' blog post Volta: Redefining Web Development tier-split an...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 12/07/2007
Volta: The Power of Lingua Franca
Earlier today we released the Live Labs Volta Technology Preview. There are already a few blog posts...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 12/06/2007
Guidance on Model-View-... Variants
Rcently I've been part of several conversations on the differences between Model-View-Controller and...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 08/28/2007
PLoP 2007 Call for Participation
Here's the announcement from my fellow Hillsider (and long time friend) Joe Yoder. Anybody who's...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 08/04/2007
What is a LOB application?
I wanted to blog about this topic for a while so I might as well make it the first post. Line of...
Author: Dragos Manolescu Date: 07/19/2007