My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

Windows 8 Update failing at 15%

December 03, 2012
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I have noticed a series of failures for recent important Windows 8 updates (including KB2769034, KB2769165, KB2770917, ...

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Developer Serengeti - Where do you fit in?

November 30, 2012
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The build up to the Windows 8 release was full of the expected hyperbole, the notion that the most widely distributed ...

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Settings Privacy Policy for Win 8 Dev

November 26, 2012
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If you are creating and releasing apps for the Windows 8 marketplace that access the internet you will need to ensure ...

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MVVM and MVC Contrast

November 08, 2012
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Over the past eighteen months I have been developing a series of apps at home and in every instance I found myself ...

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Windows 8 PubCenter Ads Stealing Focus

October 30, 2012
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I am putting the finishing touches on an app I am working on for the Windows 8 Store. I am opting for a free app that ...

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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
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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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