I love the content that came out of the build conference last month. However, while I learn a lot from the videos, it feels like the information is trapped in a 40-50 minute video and, frankly, no one has that kind of time. So as I watch the videos, I’m taking notes to help me…
Cool Stuff (uncategorized) Practical Sketchnoting (pdf) – Sketchnoting is the practice of taking notes using a combination of text and images. Jason Alderman gives helpful tips on how to do it. Windows Phone 8 Windows Phone 8 Toolkit overview (Adam Denning) – The WP8 toolkit isn’t required for building apps in Windows Phone 8, but…
Now that we’ve looked at some basics for writing HTML/JS apps in Windows Phone and we’ve looked at an example of initiating the camera, we’ve probably hit a snag where we need to do some debugging. Here we have some good news and some bad news surrounding HTML/JS apps and Windows Phone. The Bad News…
Once we’ve got the basics of writing Windows Phone HTML5 apps, we’re probably going to want to start interacting with some of the cooler aspects of the phone. And first on my list is the camera. In this tutorial, I’m going to walk though: Launching the native Windows Phone camera from an HTML5 app Returning…
I’ve recently been learning to write HTML 5 / Javascript apps for Windows 8 and wanted to take some of that knowledge and transfer it over to Windows Phone 8. As I did so, I learned there are a lot of little “tweaks” that I needed to do to get things working so I thought…
This last week I was honored to represent Microsoft Vietnam for the WOWZAPP Worldwide Hackathon. While I attended the Hanoi event, I also had the opportunity to speak to students in Ho Chi Minh City (there were two WOWZAPP events in Vietnam). Below you’ll find the winners of the WOWZAPP Hackathon in HCMC. I’m…
Trying to post weekly links, but my travel schedule has made it difficult. Nevertheless, here are some important things I’ve found in the last week. Windows Phone NFC Library for Proximity APIs in Widows 8 and Windows Phone 8 – looks promising. I can’t vouch for it myself, but I plan to look into it….
I’ve given this presentation a few times now and for my victims… I mean audience, I’m making the slides and code that I used for the presentation available here. Windows Phone 8 Sensors (Maps, NFC, Speech) PowerPoint Windows Phone 8 Sensors Code (Maps and Speech demos) There are several blog posts in here waiting to…
This last week I was honored to represent Microsoft in Hanoi, Vietnam for the WOWZAPP Worldwide Hackathon. The Hanoi event I attended was packed full, every seat filled with ambitious young developers working to create their new apps for Windows 8. Below you’ll find the winners of the WOWZAPP Hackathon in Hanoi. I’m working on…
This week, I’m in Hanoi Vietnam, helping with the WOWZAPP 2012 Windows hackathon. As part of my participation in WOWZAPP, I gave a presentation this morning entitled: Windows Phone 8 – More Than An App in which I spoke on how Windows Phone 8 allows tight integration with many “outside the sandbox”capabilities in the phone,…