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Den Delimarsky04/03/11
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How to sniff web traffic from Marketplace-based Android applications

There are cases when it is necessary to track the outgoing and incoming traffic related to Android applications. However, Android as a platform is not really friendly towards this kind of operations. The most common way I am analyzing the traffic that is...

Terrence Ryan04/03/11
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Holy Crap I’m a Mobile Developer: Idea to Prototype

For my first video in this series, I'll show you how to take an idea from one of Adobe's design tools (Fireworks) to a working prototype using Flash Catalyst Flash Catalyst for Mobile Development from Terry Ryan on Vimeo.

Alessandro Giorgetti04/03/11
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Silverlight, M-V-VM ... and IoC - part 3

It’s time to go on with this series, at this point we know the basic principles of MVVM and we have a set of base classes and interfaces we can use. We need to put it in action and see how we can implement the View and the ViewModel and how we can tie...

Per Ola Sæther04/03/11
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My favorite Windows Phone 7 development resources

When I develop Windows Phone 7 apps I use a lot of online and offline resources to learn best practices, tips and tricks from other developers. Why use a lot of time figuring out how to do things that already have been done. This post is a collection of...

David Kelley04/02/11
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Dirty Dirty Silverlight Hack... - Silverlight 4 Hack: Use Native/Desktop CLR Without COM Registration

Here is a hack of the month. Jeremiah is probably my favoriate Silverlight Prodagy and he has done it again with this wonderful hack, 'Use Native/Desktop CLR Without COM Registration' I like the first line, "WARNING: Information and code here can...

Axel Rauschmayer04/01/11
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JavaScript: an overview of the regular expression API

This post gives an overview of the JavaScript API for regular expressions. It does not, however, go into details about regular expression syntax, so you should already be familiar with it.

Terrence Ryan04/01/11
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Holy Crap I’m a Mobile Developer

I'm starting up new little series entitled "Holy Crap, I'm a Mobile Developer." The idea is that somewhere along the way I developed the ability to build applications for mobile devices, specifically Android. Sadly I can't take any credit for...

Simone Chiaretta04/01/11
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The Importance of Performance Testing in a Windows Phone 7 Application

A few months I described how I handled the encoding bug of the WebBrowser control in WP7. Unfortunately it was not just a problem with the “smart quotes” but also with all non western characters, and the naïve solution to the problem caused a...

Brian Swartzfager03/31/11
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Quick Tip: Take a Screenshot of Your Android Phone Without Rooting It

Just a quick note about something I learned yesterday: a few blog posts ago, I said that when you publish your Android app, you want to provide a couple of screenshots, and I said that you could do that either by using the emulator to simulate your...

Senthil Kumar03/31/11
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How to retrieve the Phone Number and the Email Address from WP7 Contacts in C#

The PhoneNumberChooserTask and the EmailAddressChooserTask in the Windows Phone 7 API helps the user to select the Phone Number and the Email Address of the selected contact . When this chooser is used, the Contacts page is opened for the user to select...

Mihai Fonoage03/31/11
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Displaying images from SD card in Android

Below you will find a Android example of how to access and display images that are stored on your SD card. I wrote part 2 for this article, where images are loaded in the background using an asynchronous task. It is an improvement over this article,...

Brian Swartzfager03/30/11
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HTML 5 Geolocation Functions and Mobile Web Browsers: Show the User Where They Are (Sort Of)

Every April, the University of Maryland holds a huge open-house event called Maryland Day that draws 60,000+ visitors to the campus to view exhibits highlighting the research conducted at the university and participate in various events and activities. All...

David Kelley03/30/11
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Silverlight TV: Multi-Touch 101 with Silverlight

John interviews Silverlight MVP David Kelley (thats me) about developing multi-touch applications in Silverlight. I discuss the types of multi-touch hardware and my experiences in developing real world multi-touch applications. Then I jumps right into the...

Alessandro Giorgetti03/30/11
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Silverlight, M-V-VM … and IoC – part 2

In the previous post I’ve presented a very fast introduction of what MVVM is and I’ve defined the two basic interfaces for the view and the viewmodel; I’m not going to implement a ‘pure’ version of the pattern itself because I consider a pattern...

Den Delimarsky03/30/11
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MVVM Light - what's the Messenger?

MVVM Light offers a class specific to every ViewModel instance that is used in the context of an application - Messenger. One might ask - what exactly is it and why it is needed? The answer is simple - in a more complex application, ViewModel instances are...