My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

Lenovo Yoga 13

October 28, 2012
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With all the love being shown to Surface, I wanted to take the opportunity to laud a product I have been watching for a ...

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Maps that Lie

October 24, 2012
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There have been some interesting discussions about maps recently, whether we are talking about Google’s displacement in ...

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Developers Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets

October 08, 2012
1 min read

We have had  a couple of interesting discussions in our code review sessions about character sets, strings and file ...

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The Gang of Four

September 25, 2012
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I realized this week that I do not own a copy of the Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. ...

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How to do public facing SDKs

September 20, 2012
1 min read

I was looking into the Live SDK for possible integrations points for both Windows Phone and Windows Store apps and ...

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Windows Phone 8 SDK release strategy

September 12, 2012
3 min read

I dislike feeding the trolls, however, I would hate to be described as a Microsoft shill so let me be one of many ...

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New Windows 8 hardware design

September 09, 2012
6 min read

I have certainly critiqued the Windows PC hardware options over the last few years. So I am eager to see any semblance ...

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What I need from and for the WP ecosystem

September 04, 2012
2 min read

I just finished reading a great article by Charlie Kindel and he has managed to encapsulate all my hopes and fears for ...

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All in ones All the rage

August 28, 2012
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We all saw the Ultra book trend coming, the MacBook Air saw to that, it had an 18 months lead and every hardware ...

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