Writing with a Phone

The Traccia is a phone concept modeled on how we use a writing instrument, specifically a pen. The intuitive way we write on a sheet is translated to commands for the phone thanks to the embedded optical sensor  located at the end of the stick. Basically whatever you write gets translated to a command or function via the installed software. This means your invisible writing can be converted to

Design Trends: 25 Awesome iPhone & iPad App Website Designs

Mobile is blowing up. O.K., maybe it’s already blown up and I’m just a bit behind the times, but regardless of my lack of technical savvy, mobile apps make up a huge market and today I want to look over one of the most recent trends I’ve seen in web design – iPhone and iPad app website designs. One of the main things you see in every one of the examples below is a large iPhone or iPad image,

MJPEG Decoder for WPF, WinForms, WP7 and XNA

Project DescriptionLibrary to decode MJPEG streams for Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, XNA 4.0, WinForms, and WPF. Sample code showing usage is included with the distribution. For more information, see the full article at Coding4Fun. Read more: CodeplexRead more: Coding4Fun Posted via email from Jasper-net

Working with Android Layouts and ListViews

I've been the owner of an Android phone for about 5 months now. The thought of creating an application for the Android platform has appealed to me ever since. That's why I recently started with Android development as a learning project for the next couple of weeks. In this post I will start sharing my experience with developing Android applications. Getting startedThe basic thing, while starting

Internet Explorer 9 RC – download, what’s new and get your sites ready

Dean Hachamovich has just announced availability of Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate on the official IE team blog. As Dean blogs, we have received a lot of feedback from developer and end-users. We have listened and now with the RC, IE9 has made progress in the areas of performance, standards, user interface, safety and privacy. Actions:Download Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate through

Alien Dalvik lets Android apps run anywhere

Alien Dalvik and similar technologies have the power to make all mobile devices equal and to make the Android app the only type of app you ever have to write.Many Android users think that the only problem with Android is that it only runs on Android portable devices. More precisely they would like to run the same apps on their laptops and perhaps even desktop machines. While Android is a

Fiddler and the IE9 Release Candidate

I’m delighted to announce that the now-available IE9 RC includes three significant enhancements for users of proxy-based debuggers like Fiddler.These improvements are:The default Connections-Per-Proxy limit has been raised from 6 to 12, improving performance and in some cases reducing Observer Effect. Debugging of traffic sent to Localhost / 127.0.0.1 now “just works”—configuration changes are

VistaDB CLR Procs and Functions Introduction

Intro to CLR Stored Procedures and CLR FunctionsCLR Stored Procedures and Functions are a relatively new way to build extensions for your database. Traditionally stored procedure logic has been written in SQL, but SQL Server 2005 introduced the ability to use CLR code for procedures. Microsoft sometimes calls this SQL CLR as the technology used to load CLR assemblies into SQL Server. Prior to SQL

Looking for Silverlight developers? Post your job openings in SilverlightShow open group on LinkedIn

SilverlightShow group on LinkedIn is now an open group. And among the main benefits of an open group is the option to share all discussions on Facebook and Twitter! Hope this will really encourage the sharing of the information discussed in the group. We see that LinkedIn is often used to post job announcements as discussions. We don't mind that - so feel free to post your Silverlight jobs in our

Check out a 'Query Analyzer/SSMS' for Log Parser called Log Parser Lizard

As any incident responder will agree, you can never have too many logs. That is, of course, until you have to analyze them! I was recently on an engagement where our team had to review hundreds of gigabytes of logs looking for evidence of hacking activity. I was quickly reminded of how much I love Microsoft Log Parser. Log Parser is often misunderstood and underestimated. It could possibly be the