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I spent the weekend stepping over bodies - both real and virtual - at the Hack Arizona event in...

Date: 01/17/2017

Thinking of switching / dual-OS-using Mac and Windows, but not sure if your favorite app is...

Date: 12/16/2016

Updated: Added a few more If you're moving between a Mac system and a Windows 10 system, you might...

Date: 12/06/2016

If you've been writing iOS or Android games and apps, you might have glanced at Windows and though...

Date: 11/23/2016

Who doesn't love writing games? Only people who don't know it, IMHO. I was recently working on a...

Date: 07/15/2016

Some stats after two weeks of riding around on my new Zero electric motorcycle: Miles: 160 Cost to...

Date: 05/05/2016

Since the blog posting I made only 2 weeks ago, things have progressed quickly in Project...

Date: 12/14/2015

Update: The Project Islandwood repo on GitHub (aka "Windows Bridge for iOS") has been updated to...

Date: 11/30/2015

In the spirit of our increasingly cross-platform company, I thought I'd start posting some iOS...

Date: 05/21/2015

Sometimes I like to make life difficult for myself, or at least it seems that way. For example, I'm...

Date: 03/25/2015

After briefly playing around with SpriteKit on iOS, and enjoying the built-in Physics Engine, I was...

Date: 06/17/2014

You can tell a lot about a programmer by checking out the books on their bookshelf, I would think....

Date: 06/13/2014

A few months ago, I released a simple task management app for Windows 8.1 to the Windows store....

Date: 05/29/2014

WeatherView Sample - available on CodePlex - https://weatherview.codeplex.com This is a sample which...

Date: 05/28/2014

Good news - there might be a "Day of Unity" coming to a city near you! Unity and Microsoft are...

Date: 04/18/2014

I've been working on a Universal app that runs on Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1, and I have to...

Date: 04/16/2014

If you are in the US, you might want to run to your nearest Microsoft Store (or go to...

Date: 04/15/2014

I was working on a Windows Store app (as I usually am between 9am to 5pm) and I wanted to make use...

Date: 04/11/2014

Delighted to see that MonoGame 3.2 is now available - this release contains a big set of...

Date: 04/07/2014

Since I last took to the keyboard to write a blog entry, things have changed. For a start, I've...

Date: 03/12/2014

I’ve touched on the awesomeness of data binding a few times in this blog. Data binding is one...

Date: 01/30/2014

Tricks and tips for smaller devices I’ve been using my Dell Venue Pro 8 table for a while now,...

Date: 01/17/2014

I'm a big fan of the Dell Venue 8 Pro tablet: the little device that runs Windows 8.1. If I had a...

Date: 01/08/2014

In a previous blog posting, I discussed how I used a XAML ListBox to create a control rather like an...

Date: 12/27/2013

Here's an app which I wanted to make for a while. Answer a few questions, and the app will create a...

Date: 11/22/2013

If you are a fan of C#, but you've also heard of these "smartphone things" and think they might...

Date: 11/13/2013

Great news for game developers today: Unity 4.3 is out! This new release packs in a lot of new...

Date: 11/12/2013

I've been using the ASUS VivoTab Smart tablet as my laptop-replacement for a while now (it runs...

Date: 11/01/2013

In my current project, I wanted to create a simple, UITableView-like scrolling list on the side of...

Date: 11/01/2013

When we wrote some topics on using the Windows 8 App Bar (such as the blockbuster hit Titlebars,...

Date: 10/23/2013

If you’re coming to Windows programming and C# from the world of iOS, you’ve probably...

Date: 10/17/2013

My current home Windows development set-up is actually a 15” MacBook Pro with Retina display....

Date: 10/16/2013

So, you've created your ObservableCollection array, and set it to your ListView or ListBox as an...

Date: 10/15/2013

After writing apps for the iPhone, you very quickly get to used to UITableViews. A scrolling...

Date: 10/14/2013

Today I was setting up Visual Studio on my MacBook Pro using Parallels so I could continue working...

Date: 10/13/2013

This was something I didn't expect, but it's possible to use Xcode with TFS (Team Foundation Server)...

Date: 09/20/2013

When I start using a new platform, I like to do one specific thing: write a version of Asteroids for...

Date: 09/19/2013

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