My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

Making asynchronous calls from Background Tasks

April 07, 2013
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Windows Store Background Tasks, as the name suggests, runs in the background when your app is not active. They provide ...

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Mophie Juice Pack Air

March 22, 2013
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The Achilles heal shared by all smartphones is the limitation to less than a single day of active use. The push for ...

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Await

March 17, 2013
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One of the wonderful things about the new Windows Runtime is that it provides a comprehensive means for accessing the ...

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Basic Authentication using WebRequest

March 12, 2013
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Every once in a while I get asked to design systems that require passing a simple user id and password to authenticate ...

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Code.org

February 26, 2013
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Code.org is a non-profit foundation dedicated to growing computer programming education. They have the noble goal of ...

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Browser Development Tools Basics

February 19, 2013
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For a period of about 18 months I was involved in the initial design and deployment of an ASP.NET project that included ...

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Sharing OneNote documents with iOS

February 10, 2013
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I just completed the sufficiently maddening experience of attempting to share a OneNote document to multiple people on ...

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Bing Rewards for Xbox Live

January 23, 2013
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I am a veracious Xbox user, I spend time playing games, watching movies, browsing for useful YouTube videos, catching ...

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Truly Random

January 14, 2013
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One of the apps I have been working on recently required that I present the user with a truly random sequence of ...

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