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Maximiliano Firtman03/15/11
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Is Apple trying to hinder PhoneGap and other HTML5 frameworks with iOS 4.3?

Last week Apple released iOS 4.3 and the new Nitro engine was presented inside Safari on iOS for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. The iPad 2 with iOS 4.3 is on its way in US and worldwide in next days. However, a new situation was discovered last days alarming...

Maximiliano Firtman03/14/11
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What’s new on Safari for iPhone 4.3 and iPad 4.3

Once more, we have an iOS update for iPhone, iPod and iPad: version 4.3. And like previous versions, I was playing with Safari, the native browser, to see what’s new for web designers and developers. And here are the results. Last version (4.2) gave us...

Olivier Brand03/11/11
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Pling for iPhone

Introduction The purpose of this article is to give an overview and also some best practices on how to use the JBOSS RestEasy framework as a supporting service layer for an Apple IOS based application hosted in a cloud environment such as Google App...

Den Delimarsky03/11/11
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Not your regular photo and video camera on Windows Phone 7

The default Windows Phone 7 doesn't exaclty come with support for custom camera viewers. Or at least this is not officially documented. It is well known that the GAC on the phone contains libraries that are not publicly accesible via Visual Studio -...

Matt Lacey03/10/11
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Gotchas when forcing the theme colour in a Windows Phone 7 app

Gotchas when forcing the theme colour in a Windows Phone 7 app Windows Phone 7 support two background themes: light and dark.

Dan Dyer03/10/11
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Thoughts on Amazon’s Android App Store

I’ve posted some thoughts about Amazon’s upcoming Android Appstore over at the Rectangular Blog. There has been a lot of discussion about Amazon requiring control over app pricing, most of it focusing on the potential negatives for developers. However,...

Senthil Kumar03/09/11
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Top 10 Windows Phone 7 Devices

Mtiks , a company that develops Apps to check the Windows Phone 7 Developers to check their Application statistics has released some interesting statistics on the share of countries and Mobile devices for Windows Phone 7 . ...

Den Delimarsky03/09/11
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MVVM Light on Windows Phone 7 - MVVM for the masses

Separation of concerns is one of the concepts that sometimes might seem hard to understand while following older paradigms. Nonetheless, it is important to understand that MVVM brings several benefits to the table compared to other methodologies.In simple...

Den Delimarsky03/07/11
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IE on Windows Phone 7 - some supported URI schemes

Internet Explorer on Windows Phone 7 is much more restrictive than one could imagine. Despite the fact that it is something in between IE7 and IE8, its capabilities are much more modest compared to its desktop counterpart.One of the limitations are the...

Senthil Kumar03/07/11
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Handling Orientation in Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7 supports 2 orientations: Landscape and Portrait. The combination of these 2 orientations can lead to different combinations. NonePortraitLanscapePortraitUpPortraitDownLanscapeLeftLanscape Right

Den Delimarsky03/04/11
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Windows Phone 7 Tip Of The Day: Know how app navigation works internally

Windows Phone 7 applications can be launched via well-defined tasks, available in the SDK. However, that's only the cover of the entire navigation mechanism.One key hint on how applications are actually launched is revealed if I look at the MarketplaceHubTask...

Den Delimarsky03/04/11
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Windows Phone 7 Tip Of The Day: Call resources by their absolute path

There are situations when developers need to call specific resources only by their absolute path. Of course, this situation mostly applies to cases when web resources are invoked (on Windows Phone 7 this is extremely fenced), but can also be applied to local...

Ricci Gian Maria03/03/11
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Filtering in MVVM architecture

Wpf has great filtering capabilities based on CollectionViewSource

Axel Rauschmayer03/03/11
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Summary: Apple’s iPad 2

Today, Apple introduced the iPad 2, more of an evolutionary than a revolutionary improvement to the original iPad. This post summarizes what is new. Hardware, compared to the “iPad 1”:

Den Delimarsky03/02/11
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Highlights of XNA development on Windows Phone 7

Developing games for multiple platforms might be a daunting task when it comes to porting the same project to a different system while still maintaining its capabilities. Ever since Microsoft released the XNA framework, this task has been simplified and...