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The technologies that we use to write applications for our end users are changing at a frightening pace!
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With the recent release of Windows 8 and VS 2012, you've probably heard of the bold move in the WinRT API to only offer asynchronous versions of operations which take any significant time and the corresponding async/await feature in C#5 and VB11.
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This blog post looks at the issues regarding integration of KnockoutJS and jQueryMobile, and provides a simple worked example - a Twitter Search application - where the two technologies play nicely together!
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I've been working on a Windows Store application called EdBus, as part of the CodeProject AppInnovation contest.
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Last weekend I traveled to Bradford for the second DDDNorth conference - a community-organised developer event which featured some excellent speakers.
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Hot on the heels of Reject.js was JSConf EU, a weekend conference about, well, JavaScript!
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A couple of days ago a published a new article on CodeProject, this latest article tackles the migration of a gesture-drive application from Windows Phone to Windows 8.
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Last Thursday I headed to Berlin for Reject.js, a community JavaScript conference organised to coincide with JSConf.eu.
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In this post I'm going to talk about creating PDF documents in C#.
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Toob is a London Underground travel app for Windows 8 that I am designing and developing for CodeProject's App Innovation Contest. It is currently a work in progress but I have written an article introducing the application and going through some useful technical information for anyone interested in writing HTML5 applications for Windows 8.
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How does Microsoft's TypeScript, the new kid on the block, compare to Google's Closure?
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In this post Colin Eberhardt's Property Finder app gets another outing, but this time with a native twist.
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This post describes a jQuery plugin which performs "picker style" animations between numbers using CSS3 transitions and transforms.
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Most of us have had a play with CSS3 3D transforms, stacked a few elements, rotated them, maybe even made a cube out of them.
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Intellisense for JavaScript has always felt to me like an unfinished addition to Visual Studio, something that promises so much but doesn't deliver for larger projects.
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A look at how the Android design patterns have shifted over time
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HTML5 versus native (iOS:Obj-C, Android:Java) mobile development is a hot topic at the moment, with Facebook's ditching of a hybrid HTML5/Obj-C app in favour of an Obj-C-only app the latest blow to land.
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I have just found out that my article "A Gesture-Driven Windows Phone To-Do List" won first place in the July 2012 best mobile article category.
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A while back, when PhoneGap for Windows Phone was still in beta, I created Property Finder, an application for searching UK property listings.
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This post looks at how to construct Java's built-in hash based Map implementations to ensure they have sufficient, but not excessive capacity.

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