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Microsoft's redemption
Yesterday Microsoft finally reactivated my App Hub account so I was able to publish a long overdue Mo Calc update. It did take them a whole week and I still don’t know what the issue was in the first place. I guess at this point I don’t really care. To sweeten the deal Microsoft reimbursed my money and pre-paid the $99 for a yearly App Hub membership. That, plus my app was approved after only a few hours. Call me satisfied.
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WP7 App Search via Bing
Bing offers a nice way of searching for Windows Phone 7 apps, called “Visual Search”. I have noticed that the results are a little bit outdated compared to the Zune client but, nonetheless it’s a cool tool for browsing.
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First Windows Phone 7 App
As you undoubtedly heard from my posts on Twitter, I have published my very first Windows Phone 7 app. Yes, you guessed it right – it’s a mortgage calculator called Mo Calc.
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WP7 Developer Launch
The launch of Windows Phone 7 is near. Microsoft has organized a bunch of events for the developers all across US. I’m attending one in Chicago.
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Android code generation
I started looking more seriously into Android development, especially after a great training session with Mark Murphy organized by Chicago Android. Right now I am experimenting with simple user interfaces (buttons, lists, etc) and learning how to utilize various phone's sensors.
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Async Patterns with C# – Handling Requests
This is a continuation of my earlier blog post regarding asynchronous operations in .NET. We are now going to discuss the various ways of issuing and receiving results from asynchronous requests.
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Async patterns with C#
Lately I have been doing a lot of asynchronous development. At work I’m designing a trading API that is very asynchronous in nature, and in my spare time I have been messing around with Silverlight.
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USB Pet Rock
For my birthday my parents got me a USB rock. My dad made it himself. It’s the greatest thing! I took it to work, connected it to the USB port on the side of my monitor, and let me tell you – it’s causing quite a stir. People stop by my cube and are asking questions about it. Here are some of my stories explaining what the rock does:
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Mobile project, cont.
Something I just thought of for my new mobile project:
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Mobile project
Long time, no blog. My life has been pretty busy, which is why I’ve been neglecting the blog. It’s easier to just send a few tweets to share my thoughts. Tonight I have a few spare moments, so I decided to write.