I’ve been launching headlong into Windows Phone 7 development as can be seen from my previous post and I’ve come across some little tit bits I thought I’d post up here. Jump Start Training I can’t begin to say how helpful the jump start training courses have been. So far I’ve done [...]
I’ve put together a basic photo uploader for the new Windows Phone 7. This was a good exercise for me as I had to a) make sure that the Flickr.Net library worked correctly in Windows Phone 7, and b) finally learn Silverlight, at least the basics anyway. Well I had great fun, and I’m [...]
Just a quick note to say I’ve released the first version of the Flickr.Net library to support Silverlight (3.0 and 4.0) and the new Windows Phone 7 SDK.
The release can be downloaded from flickrnet.codeplex.com - use the FlickrNetSilverlight.dll file in the binary download.
The new asynchronous methods added for silverlight (as all network traffic is async in [...]
The Flickr.Net library has been getting a bit of love recently.
Monotouch
Firstly, it got mentioned on the dotnetrocks podcast a week or so ago, a talk with Chris Hardy about Monotouch.
Postcast: http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=568 - Flickr.Net is mentioned about 31minutes in. You can also view Chris’s talk at the NDC conference here: http://streaming.ndc2010.no/tcs/?id=815EADB7-066D-4516-A70F-31EEFDFB1DE2 - he does a demo using the [...]
Usually when you remote desktop to another machine you can turn on automatic mapping of your local drives to drives on the server - for example you local C: drive is available at \tsclient\c
However recently I have been experiencing a problem where I wasn’t seeing the C: drive, but only when I logged onto the [...]
I’ve just released a brand spanking new version of the Flickr.Net API library. The big things to note are that this version has over 150 unit tests to make sure it is working correctly. It also covers 100% of the Flickr API methods (there is a unit test that ensures this). I’ve [...]
I’ve been messing around with JavaScript quite a bit recently and I came across a ‘bug’ in the Microsoft implementation of the split() method.
Take the following example string (note the two tabs at the end):
var s = “Hello\tHow\tare\tyou\t\t”;
and then run the following to write it out to the screen:
document.writeln(s.split(”\t”));
Well that works as expected, and outputs [...]
I was asked the question recently, what makes StackOverflow different from other developer forums. (Thanks http://twitter.com/redgum)
http://www.stackoverflow.com
I’ve only been using it for a few days now, and its still in private beta, although it is claimed to be (mostly) feature complete.
There are a few obvious things that mark it as different from your usual developer forum.
No [...]
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I’ve just been informed of a fairly large bug in the uninstaller for the latest Flickr Screensaver.
Basically if you uninstall it it will try and delete your Windows\System32 directory.
Obviously that is VERY BAD. I apologise. I’ve deleted the installer from the web site, but anyone who has the latest version of the screensaver should not [...]
I learnt something new today. You can use the DOS ‘ECHO’ command to output a line (or in fact any text you want) by putting a period ‘.’ immediately after the ECHO. i.e. The following will echo a blank line.
C:\> ECHO.
Also, if you want to echo some special characters you can put a carat ‘^’ [...]
Coding Horror: Does More Than One Monitor Improve Productivity?
A difficult one this one - I’ve never actually been able to work with 2 same sized monitors, but I have tried to use a laptop and an external monitor at the same time, and personally I found the ’second’ monitor (the external one is bigger so [...]
Flickr .Net Screensaver - Release: Release 4.2
Finally released a new version of the screensaver. This is a beta release, but hopefully should fix the problems that people have been having with memory and threading issues.
Tagged by Brenda, so…
I shall start at 1 and see how far I get - so in no particular order:
Convert my Flickr Screensaver to WPF.
I thought I’d start off with this as this is a mostly code related blog. I’ve written some small prototypes and it looks like it could be quite good. I’ll [...]
I’m please to say that the new version of the Jing Project, a tool for capturing video and screenshots of your desktop uses the Flickr.Net library to upload the files to Flickr (I’m assuming on the Windows only version).
As you can see from the screenshot on the right it works a dream :)
Since I started working as the technical editor for the XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 reference book I thought I’d try my hand at helping out on the Wrox Programmer to Programmer (P2P for short) forums.
When I first started out I was a ‘Starting Member’ but soon progressed to ‘New Member’.
Not long after that I [...]