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Date: 08/03/2012

WP7 Code: Mocking Event Streams with IEnumerable

A few weeks ago I showed how to represent computations involving geo locations or accelerometer...

Date: 12/12/2010

WP7 Code: Using the Accelerometer API

  My previous  blog posts on WP7 Code covered the GeoLocation API, a surface area that...

Date: 11/01/2010

WP7 Code: Managing Application State

  Visual Studio and the Windows Phone Developer Tools make building software for the Windows...

Date: 10/26/2010

WP7 Code: Geofencing with the GeoLocation API and Rx

  Besides providing geographical coordinates, computing distances, and making reverse geocoding...

Date: 10/13/2010

WP7 Code: Reverse GeoCoding with the Bing Maps Service

  My previous blog posts showed how to obtain location as an event stream from the Windows...

Date: 10/07/2010

WP7 Code: Distance Computations with the GeoLocation API

  In my previous post I showed the most interesting code fragments for a location-aware Windows...

Date: 09/29/2010

WP7 Code: Using the GeoLocation API

  I’m kicking off a series of blog posts focused on writing Windows Phone 7 code with one of...

Date: 09/21/2010

Coming Soon: Windows Phone 7 Blog Posts

It’s been an embarrassingly long time since my last post on this blog. Several cool projects in the...

Date: 09/08/2010

Web Sandbox available under the Apache License

Earlier today we announced releasing the runtime code of the Web Sandbox available under the Open...

Date: 01/28/2009

Live Labs Thumbtack and Seadragon Mobile

By now this is already old news, but here it goes. Last week Live Labs released two cool projects:...

Date: 12/15/2008

Web Sandbox in Azure Color

Earlier today we rolled out an updated version of Live Labs Web Sandbox CTP, a technology for...

Date: 12/10/2008

Live Labs Web Sandbox

Earlier today we launched a technology preview for Web Sandbox, a project aimed at securing Web 2.0....

Date: 10/24/2008

Political Streams Online

A project I've been involved with for the first part of the year is now live, just in time for the...

Date: 10/10/2008

Building Distributed Applications with Recompilers

My article Volta: Developing Distributed Applications by Recompiling (co-authored with Brian Beckman...

Date: 08/25/2008

Pattern Languages for Web Programming

My colleague J.D. Meier asked for an example of what I consider to be a good pattern language. I...

Date: 08/13/2008

Web 2.0 Patterns Wiki

Last week a group comprising Felix Nyffenegger, Judith Bishop, Duane Nickull, Marco Brambilla, Marco...

Date: 07/09/2008

Web 2.0 Pattern Mining Workshop

Monday June 30 we're kicking off the Web 2.0 Pattern Mining Workshop at the TOOLS Europe conference,...

Date: 06/24/2008

Volta Job Opportunities

We have two job opportunities in the Volta team: Software Development Engineer (232909) Software...

Date: 06/12/2008

Web 2.0 Patterns

During the last decade software patterns emerged as one of the most successful forms of reuse. The...

Date: 03/21/2008

PLoP 2008 Call for Papers

********************************************************************* CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 15th...

Date: 03/13/2008

ICWSM 2008

One of the things that surprised me at OOPSLA 2007 was the amount of traction that social media is...

Date: 03/13/2008

Blews in the Seattle PI via TechFest 2008 Coverage

TechFest 2008 takes place this week in Redmond. The Seattle PI has a piece about it, and it's great...

Date: 03/06/2008

With Miguel de Icaza on Open Source, Mono, and Moonlight

A few weeks ago I attended Lang.NET Symposium. Charles Torre asked me to participate in a...

Date: 02/18/2008

Ajax Patterns, the C# 3.0 Way

Ajax patterns represent solutions to common problems facing the developers of Ajax applications. The...

Date: 01/11/2008

EuroPLoP 2008 Call for Participations

Via my fellow Hillsiders from Europe, here's the Final Call for Papers for EuroPLoP 2008. As I...

Date: 01/04/2008

Deploying Volta Web Applications

A typical Volta application comprises client and server elements. For a web application (Volta also...

Date: 01/03/2008

Tier-split Refactoring WinForms Applications with Volta

The Volta quickstart as well as Wes' blog post Volta: Redefining Web Development tier-split an...

Date: 12/07/2007

Volta: The Power of Lingua Franca

Earlier today we released the Live Labs Volta Technology Preview. There are already a few blog posts...

Date: 12/06/2007

Guidance on Model-View-... Variants

Rcently I've been part of several conversations on the differences between Model-View-Controller and...

Date: 08/28/2007

PLoP 2007 Call for Participation

Here's the announcement from my fellow Hillsider (and long time friend) Joe Yoder. Anybody who's...

Date: 08/04/2007

What is a LOB application?

I wanted to blog about this topic for a while so I might as well make it the first post. Line of...

Date: 07/19/2007