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Musings on mobile development and Windows Phone 7 in particular.

Radio silence for a bit

I'm heading off on holiday for a week so things'll be quiet round here and on Twitter for a while....

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/04/2010

MSDN Flash Poll #1

As well as taking on my new mantle as “phone guy”, I’ve also taken on the role of MSDN Flash...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/04/2010

The start of a Windows Phone 7 Journey

My blog’s been quiet for a while as I’ve been spending most of my efforts over on ubelly.com but...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 06/02/2010

jQuery Primer

I’ve eventually managed to get my jQuery Primer deployed – apologies for the delay. It’s a good...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 05/07/2010

Moving from Visual Studio 2010 RC to RTM

I’ve just been doing a bit of housekeeping before moving to VS2010 RTM, in particular removing...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 04/23/2010

What if I can’t upgrade to IE8?

Having spelled out the virtues of IE8 and how I like to configure it, the question remains, what if...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/23/2010

Make IE8 the best dev browser

As a developer you spend a fair amount of time in a browser. If you’re a web developer your probably...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/19/2010

Is IE8 your default web browser?

If not, why not? I’ve heard them all (actually, I probably haven’t but it feels like I have :)). For...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/17/2010

MIX10 Day 2 Keynote – ie the Web

1105 What’s really changing is not the technology, it’s who’s doing what, where, with whom. Mobile...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/16/2010

I didn’t think I was that sort of person

The sort that Viral describes over here as “the type of person who likes to stick random devices in...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/11/2010

ORMs – A Developer’s Dream, A DBA’s Nightmare?

I caught up with Simon Sabin (@simon_sabin), organiser of the SQL Bits conference, at DDD8 (a...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 03/11/2010

The Jeff Stelling Accelerator

Yes folks, it’s the big one; the one you’ve been waiting for. After months of hard work, I’m very...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/23/2010

UK Tech Days – Registration Open!

A full week of activities for both Developers and ITPros from 12-16th April. From the dev...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/17/2010

Introducing .NET 4.0 (the book that is)

Some time back Alex Mackey very kindly asked me to write a couple of paragraphs about what I was...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/05/2010

Last chance for your MIX10 discount

I’m very much looking forward to MIX10 (yes, I’m going this year) and I see a host of Windows Phone...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 02/05/2010

Catching up on some reading

My blog reader’s bursting at the seams so I thought I’d try and play catch-up this morning – not...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/22/2010

[Video] Spark View Engine Part 3

Here’s the final part of the video series covering my Spark view engine posts. Part 1 is here. Part...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 01/07/2010

[Video] Spark View Engine Part 2

Here’s part 2 of the short video series covering the Spark view engine posts. Part 1 is here. Part 3...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/22/2009

[Video] Spark View Engine Part 1

I decided to make a short video series covering the Spark view engine posts I did here, here and...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/21/2009

Inspired by Eric doing this first, I thought I’d dig out my most popular posts of 2009. Most popular...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/18/2009

The Perils of Blocking Online Ads

In a fit of frustration the other day, having waited an eternity for some online ad on some...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/18/2009

Adding a bit of Spark to Nerd Dinner

Right, here we go. Having talked about how to get Spark set up and a little about Spark usage, it’s...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/18/2009

A Bit About Spark

In my last post I installed and configured Spark as an alternative view engine for ASP.NET MVC....

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/17/2009

Extending ASP.NET MVC – Replacing the View Engine

One of the less discussed aspects of ASP.NET MVC is its extensibility. Pretty much any component can...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/17/2009

Search Engine Optimisation

Here I go again on the importance of SEO and the benefits of the SEO Toolkit :). I put together a...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/15/2009

Web Platform Slideshow

This is a deck from a session I delivered recently trying to round-up some of the highlights of the...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/15/2009

MIX10 Registration Open

Yes, it’s that time of year again when March (and MIX) seem to be both in the distant future and...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/09/2009

Deliver better video with IIS Smooth Streaming

IIS Smooth Streaming is one of those “wow” technologies – watch the video and you get a real sense...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/01/2009

The Windows API Code Pack

If you want to access Windows 7 features like Jump Lists, Libraries, Common File Dialogs, Sensor...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 12/01/2009

Word Clouds in PowerPoint with PowerShell

James has really outdone himself here – he’s built a PowerShell script that will create lovely word...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/27/2009

Problem solved - mounting a VHD backup file

I’m sure this is documented somewhere but as I’ve just run into it I thought I would share. As I’m...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/26/2009

Silverlight 4 resources – a top 10 list

With the announcement and release of Silverlight 4 Beta, I thought it might be useful to bring...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/25/2009

The client script loader is cool

One of the new “features” of the ASP.NET Ajax library is the refactoring of said library into 15 or...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/25/2009

ASP.NET 4.0 - and semantic markup

By default, the menu control in ASP.NET 4.0 now renders tableless markup. Here’s the default ASP.NET...

Author: MikeO [MSFT] Date: 11/13/2009

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