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A Walk down Dependency lane

April 03, 2012
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I was recently troubleshooting an issue with a dll that just would not install, as in 'regsvr32'. For the first time in ...

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Adobe Muse (Codename)

March 30, 2012
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I just downloaded and started using Adobe Muse (Codename) which for me represents the first real attempt to produce a ...

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Metro Apps

March 25, 2012
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When windows phone first came out I was one of the first developers to release my apps into the Marketplace. However, ...

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Chrome Died

March 10, 2012
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This is the first time Chrome ever failed me … hilarious! ...

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Translating languages in the Browser

March 06, 2012
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Recently connected with an old colleague on LinkedIn, we worked together in England  many moons ago. I notice he had a ...

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Displaying images from a Stream

March 06, 2012
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I was attempting to display an image from an IO stream for WP7, and for some reason it took me an age to get this in ...

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Confused WCF Ports

February 19, 2012
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I was trying to make a couple of small changes to a WCF services recently and I hit a brick wall while trying to update ...

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Create an iPhone Password box in HTML

February 13, 2012
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I was given a fascinating challenge to produce a simple HTML, JavaScript interface that would react and respond in the ...

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Microsoft Surface 2 Video

February 02, 2012
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Another great video of the Microsoft Surface 2 (Samsung SUR40), this video highlights the fundamental difference ...

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