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How to do public facing SDKs

September 20, 2012
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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
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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
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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
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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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The requested content appears to be script (404.17)

August 25, 2012
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This week I was troubleshooting a project that provided static JavaScript files from a WCF services. However I found ...

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Windows 8 short cut keys

August 22, 2012
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If you are developer with Windows 8 today (probably RTM or earlier) you have probably done a simple upgrade of existing ...

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MMS problems on the Samsung Focus S with T-Mobile

August 05, 2012
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My sister recently purchased an unlocked Windows Phone specifically the Samsung Focus S. She was using the phone and ...

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Higgs Boson explained … by cartoon

August 02, 2012
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Forget that it is called the God particle, it is a deliberately misleading and frankly offensive term coined by a book ...

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