Ha. 17 Aug 2013 | 01:56 am

Inside Windows Phone: Nokia Imaging SDK 26 Jul 2013 | 10:54 pm

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 involves image editing in any ...

Calculating Distance From 2 GeoCoordinates in Windows Phone 8 17 Jun 2013 | 10:21 pm

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 8 is about as ...

Reverse Geocoding in Windows Phone 8 17 Jun 2013 | 10:20 pm

This is a support post for the Inside Windows Phone show on location and mapping in Windows Phone 8 published here. Reverse geocoding is the process of getting an address from a latitude/longitude pa...

Finding and Mapping a Route in Windows Phone 8 17 Jun 2013 | 10:19 pm

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 the Windows Phone mapping services is...

Using Offline Maps in Windows Phone 8 17 Jun 2013 | 10:18 pm

This is a support post for the Inside Windows Phone show on location and mapping in Windows Phone 8 published here. I love the offline maps feature in Windows Phone. I love to travel and I frequently...

Game Of Thrones Chapter Explorer Visualization 5 Apr 2013 | 10:28 am

If you’re familiar with the Game of Thrones HBO series, you may know it’s derived from the Song of Ice and Fire books by George RR Martin. There are many remarkable things about the Song of Ice and Fi...

Missing OpenStreamForWriteAsync on my StorageFile 13 Mar 2013 | 02:09 am

I have a sample that I use when serializing data in order to save it to a StorageFile in Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. It looks a little something (or exactly) like this:

Weekly Links – 2-11-2012 11 Feb 2013 | 09:48 pm

Due to travel and other engagements, I’ve missed a couple of weekly links, so this one will be slightly larger. One thing I want to call out specifically is that Ben Riga and I have been working on a...

Using an AdControl in a Trial App (Windows Phone) 27 Jan 2013 | 03:42 pm

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 Windows Phone app, but only when it is in trial...