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Listen to Rob's Windows Mobile Interview on .NET Rocks!
I was recently interviewed by Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell who run one of the Internet's most popular developer sites, .NET Rocks! You can catch the interview at http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=384 where you can either listen to Read More...
Posted 09 October 08 01:07 by robtiffany | 1 Comments   
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Old School Windows Mobile :: Getting Started with Java on PDAs
Below is an article I wrote back in 2002 that described how to build Personal Java apps on the iPAQ during the age of Pocket PC 2000, Embedded VB and C++: PDAs are becoming a permanent fixture in the everyday lives of consumers and business people. There's Read More...
Posted 07 October 08 08:57 by robtiffany | 2 Comments   
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Sync Services for Windows Mobile Devices has Shipped!
Hello all, Just wanted to pass along that the device bits for Sync Services for ADO.NET have been released to the web! Now we have a supported version of Sync Services for Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.x. You can find the download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=75FEF59F-1B5E-49BC-A21A-9EF4F34DE6FC&displaylang=en Read More...
Posted 16 September 08 09:06 by robtiffany | 2 Comments   
The Blackjack II is Ready to be Managed by System Center Mobile Device Manager
Run, don't walk out to http://www.samsung.com/us/i617/windowsupgrade and upgrade you Samsung Blackjack II to Windows Mobile 6.1. Make an already great phone even better with threaded text messaging, a translucent, sliding panel home screen, better battery Read More...
Posted 03 September 08 08:57 by robtiffany | 2 Comments   
Sync Framework v1 and Sync Services for ADO.NET v2 are now Generally Available!
As of today you can download the Sync Framework SDK in 11 languages including Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Simplified), English, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish for AMD64, IA64 and x86 processors from the Sync Read More...
Posted 06 August 08 05:42 by robtiffany | 3 Comments   
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Reflecting on Bill Gates Departure from Microsoft
Though this term has been overused, we're truly witnessing the end of an era as Bill Gates shifts his full-time focus to his foundation.  When I think back to the one thing that Bill and Microsoft brought to this world that made the most impact on Read More...
Posted 04 July 08 03:13 by robtiffany | 1 Comments   
Building Offline Enabled Applications
At Tech Ed Developers in Orlando this year, I had the pleasure of joining Ginny Caughey, Steve Lasker, Liam Cavanagh, and Rob Relyea for a Tech Ed Online discussion on building offline enabled applications. In an online world, why are we building offline Read More...
Posted 22 June 08 07:29 by robtiffany | 3 Comments   
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Tech Ed North America Developers 2008 Wrap Up
Last week’s developer event just marked three milestones: 1. Bill Gates’ final Keynote 2. MEDC integration into Tech Ed 3. The separation of Tech Ed North America into two weeks for Developers and IT Pros At this developer event we reached Read More...
Posted 11 June 08 10:44 by robtiffany | 1 Comments   
Tech Ed Developers 2008 is less than 2 Weeks Away!
We're now in the home-stretch in our preparations for Tech Ed Developers in Orlando this June. Since this was my year to run MEDC, I've been working on this event since last October when MCB decided to integrate our Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference Read More...
Posted 21 May 08 09:06 by robtiffany | 0 Comments   
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Woodinville Wine Country Passport 2008 Wrap-up
My wife Cathy and I just attended our 3rd Passport weekend.  For those of you who don't live in the Puget Sound area or are not into wine, this is an annual event where you get to spend a weekend touring 30+ wineries.  Not only are you tasting Read More...
Posted 20 April 08 09:00 by robtiffany | 2 Comments   
From Marketecture to Architecture
For those of you who don't already know, I recently moved on to a role as a Mobility Architect and am therefore no longer working in MCB Developer Marketing as a Product Manager.  This means I will now be working with some of our largest customers Read More...
Posted 27 March 08 10:53 by robtiffany | 0 Comments   
A Great Spartan Once Said...
This is where we fight!   In a world of new mobile competitors vying for mobile developers everywhere, I'm proud to present The Microsoft® Windows Mobile Line of Business Solution Accelerator 2008! It delivers new innovations and development Read More...
Posted 15 March 08 12:16 by robtiffany | 6 Comments   
The iPhone comes to the Enterprise with a little help from Microsoft
This morning, Steve Jobs announced that Apple has licensed the Exchange Active Sync protocol from Microsoft in order to bring the following functionality to the iPhone: Push Email Push Contacts Push Calendar Access to the Global Address List (GAL) Remote Read More...
Posted 06 March 08 07:07 by robtiffany | 1 Comments   
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Welcome to the New Windows Mobile Developer Center
A quick glance at the Windows Mobile Developer Center clues you in to the fact that we’ve done a complete overhaul of the site. For years, our “bread and butter” has been delivering you content on Smart Device Development which most often included articles Read More...
Posted 22 February 08 11:21 by robtiffany | 2 Comments   
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Mobile Scalability + Staggering Performance
As you know from my recent posts, I've been hanging out at 1,200 concurrent Subscribers trying to boost performance. When I first hit the 1,200 Subscriber mark, I was able to change and replicate ~13 million rows per hour. I was happy with the scalability, Read More...
Posted 15 January 08 09:08 by robtiffany | 11 Comments   
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