March 2011 - Posts
Today I am going to review how I implement the genre and album details mobile web pages. Both pages present layout decisions opportunities needed to maximize the mobile experience. I am also going to utilize touch for a nice effect and plugin. Part 1
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At this point in this series I have shown how to build the core site infrastructure for an ASP.NET MVC 3 mobile web site using the Razor View Engine. So far nothing real exciting has happened as far as true mobile web development. Today that starts changing.
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In today’s installment of my series of making a mobile version of the MVC Music Store I am going to create the basic MVC infrastructure for the site by adding the controllers and views. This will probably be the most boring post in this series because
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Yesterday I started a new series to build a mobile web version of the MVC Music Store reference application. In part 2 of my series of making a mobile version of the MVC Music store I am going to create the core mobile layout. This requires adding a new
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Today I am going to start a series where I take the MVC Music Store sample site and create a mobile site. I chose to use this example in one of my current presentations, Take a Desktop Site to Mobile. I chose the MVC Music store because it is a simple
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As a Sprint customer I was very upset when I found out Windows Phone 7 Devices would not be available when the new OS launched in November. The problem was with Microsoft not supporting CDMA in the initial OS release. I have heard little rumors here and
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I can’t tell you how many times in the past I have wanted to rotate or skew an element in a web page. For the past year or so I have seen some really great examples of using the CSS3 Transforms module in other browsers, but not IE9. In reality the examples
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Earlier this month was one of my favorite weeks of the year, the Microsoft MVP Summit. If you are unaware of the MVP Summit it is basically a private conference Microsoft hosts in Bellevue/Redmond WA for MVP Award winners. For me it is a very intense
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Last month Microsoft demonstrated IE9 on Windows Phone 7, a big w00t for that. But we won’t have a copy of IE9 on the Windows Phone 7 emulator for a while to come, and no I have no idea when the SDK will be updated. But I have started doing a lot of experimenting
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The other day I was talking some fellow developers about web architecture techniques. I brought up the use of jQuery templates instead of another proposed technique. A case was made the template plugin was not good for progressive enhancement. The objection
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