Some time ago I wrote an overview of data visualization styles along with a visualization tutorial for the book “Beautiful Visualization“. For the tutorial, I chose a set of data… Read More »Beautiful Visualizations Data from Cars.Gov
I co-hosted this weeks Inside Windows Phone, talking about the Nokia Imaging SDK (which is pretty awesome). I would consider it a starting point for any app I write that… Read More »Inside Windows Phone: Nokia Imaging SDK
This is a support post for the Inside Windows Phone show on location and mapping in Windows Phone 8 published here. Calculating the distance between two GeoCoordinates in Windows Phone… Read More »Calculating Distance From 2 GeoCoordinates in Windows Phone 8
This is a support post for the Inside Windows Phone show on location and mapping in Windows Phone 8 published here. One of the really cool and powerful things in… Read More »Finding and Mapping a Route in Windows Phone 8
I had to search around for this information so I thought it would be nice to have it somewhere handy. Here’s the scenario: You want to put ads into your… Read More »Using an AdControl in a Trial App (Windows Phone)
Maybe this is a problem that I’m all alone on, but it took me some time to figure out. I started up a ScheduledAgent for Windows Phone so that I… Read More »Windows Phone ScheduledTask Agents and FileNotFoundException
I tweeted this, but it is so fantastic it needed its own blog post. Nathalie BELVAL (@nbelval) put together this handy card for designing and developing apps for Windows Phone… Read More »Windows Phone 8 & 7.x Design Cheat Sheet
Design and Usability See What I Mean: How to Use Comics to Communicate Ideas – Written by Kevin Cheng, one of the authors of OK/Cancel, a usability comic. Recommended on… Read More »Weekly Links 12-18-2012
Ask. Really, all you need to do is log into the Windows Phone Dev Center, contact support and submit a ticket with the subject “Phone Unlock”. Give some reason you… Read More »How To Register More Than 3 Windows Phones For Development