Improve Your Windows Phone Application
08 Feb 2012Last week I did a lightning talk at the Auckland Metro Meet Up on ways to improve your Windows Phone application. Below is the slide deck for the talk.
Brand New Website
08 Feb 2012So the blog here has been a little quiet over the last month and now I can reveal why. For the last couple of months I’ve been working on a new version of my website. Normally it wouldn’t take this long for me but I gave myself a few challenges on the way.
Hold It Level
31 Jan 2012
Try and keep the two circles aligned. How to use the Accelerometer to move an object around the screen, emulating this with Reactive Extensions and vibrating the phone.
Where Am I?
30 Jan 2012
Display your current position on map. We use GeoCoordinateWatcher and cover emulating this using Reactive Extensions.
Quake
29 Jan 2012
An interactive view of the Christchuch earthquakes of September 2010. To build we cover binding between controls using ElementName, creating a value converter and using it in bindings, parsing a web service response using Linq to Xml and using the Bing Maps control.