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Change the Skin of Your Windows Phone 7 Emulator To A Nokia Lumia
Maybe you are like me and very envious of the Nokia Lumia's or you just long for a Samsung Focus S or any of the great Windows Phones available. Well I can't get you a handsets for each type, but I can help you at least pretend you have one. Geert van Read More...
I Recommend The Web Performance Daybook Volume 2
If you know me you know I am a fanatic about application performance and that I am a big fan of Steve Souders and the practice of web performance optimization (WPO). In the past I have recommended both High Performance Web Sites and Even Faster Web Sites Read More...
A Study in Good UX and Developer UX with FourSquare
I love being the mayor, of everywhere I go. I crave check-in points for places I have never been and it puts a smile on my face when I get those extra points for checking in the third time in a week. I do FourSquare, everyday. Even when I don't leave Read More...
Improve Mobile User Experience With an HTML5 Metro UI Tiles
If you know me you know over the past few years I have been a big fan of Metro UI and the tiles. I have been hacking at doing the Metro UI in web applications for a while now, so there are a lot of things I have learned, and some I have not quite mastered Read More...
How to Take Screen Shots From An Android Phone or Tablet
Taking screen shots of an application is essential to the development and marketing process. You really need something to reference to any marketing or advertising that people can see. After all how will I have a good idea if your application will actually Read More...
Using the Cloud to Enable the Next Generation of Mobile Enterprise Applications
Next week we, Tellago, will be holding a live Webinar discussing how the Cloud will enable Enterprises, any company for that matter, to create the next generation of mobile enterprise applications. If you belong to a company and have been thinking about Read More...
Why Consumers Buy The Mobile Devices They Buy
Several years ago I was hanging out in the INETA TechEd lounge the entire week with different friends. We had a great time, but I was the only person there without a cool phone. I honestly do not recall the first generation iPhone being available at the Read More...
Black Friday SmartPhone Deals on Windows Phone
So you want a new phone or are thinking about getting a new phone for someone. Amazon has the deal for you. A few days ago I wrote some hands on reviews about some of the new breed of Windows Phones I got to hold. They are all very strong phones with Read More...
Hands On With New Breed Of Windows Phones
Last night I had an opportunity to attend a Windows Phone Inner Circle event where I got to try out many of the newest Windows Phone handsets. I even won a new HTC Titan , which is just a beast. While I was really excited to hold and experience these Read More...
Making hashchange Work Better on Windows Phone
Recently I have been creating single page web applications utilizing URL fragments .  Essentially this is a new twist to an old technique that has been around for a very long time. While not used as much these days I remember around a decade ago Read More...
I’ve Been Deep Fried!
Nope, I am not the latest deep fried treat available at your local state fair, but speaking of fried Snickers…Ok back to business. A few weeks ago I got to spend a little time with Keith Elder and Chris Woodruff on their Deep Fried Bytes Podcast discussing Read More...
Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 6: Making a WP7 Application Bar
Today I want to show you how to build a Windows Phone 7 Application Bar for your mobile web sites. If you have not done any native Windows Phone 7 developer one of the standard features is the ability to build a toolbar containing up to 4 icons and a Read More...
Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 5: The Shopping Cart
Today I am gong to complete the checkout process for the mobile version of the MVC Music Store. This process will again feature some layout decisions, but give me an opportunity to cover mobile specific features related to input forms. Part 1 Creating Read More...
Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 5: Designing the Genre and Album Pages
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 Read More...
Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 4: Creating the Home Page
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. Read More...
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