I’m excited to pass along the great news that our very own Windows Phone 7.5 is a 2012 Interaction Award winner! In a field of over 300 entries from 33 countries, the compelling UX of Windows Phone stood out. Our elegant … Continue reading
Wow! Just opened a 1099 tax document for 2011 from Apress. People must still be buying my old books on eMbedded Visual Basic, the .NET Compact Framework 2.0, and SQL Server Compact 2.0. The Pocket PC and Windows Mobile live … Continue reading
Internet Explorer 9 running on Windows Phone 7.5 has seriously raised the mobile web profile of Microsoft’s latest phone operating system. Up until recently, it’s been all about the apps written in Silverlight. With hardware-accelerated video, text rendering, canvas drawing, … Continue reading
Hey all you Submarine Warriors on the Kitsap Peninsula! This Saturday from 1:00 – 3:00 PM I’ll be doing a book signing at The Dauntless Bookstore in Port Gamble. I’ll be signing, reading from, and talking about my new novel, ’Submarine … Continue reading
Windows Phone 7.5 is running fast out of the gate for 2012. The stunning mobile operating system from Microsoft was the talk of CES in Las Vegas this year. The accolades streaming in from the world’s most influential newspapers, magazines, … Continue reading
You might not believe it, but while two-thirds of the Earth is covered by water, only 3% of it actually is drinkable. This means that roughly 1 billion people are unable to find the clean drinking water they need to survive. When you add inadequate sanitation to the equation, the number of people put at risk more than doubles. This culminates in the heartbreaking stat that over 3 million people die yearly from water-related diseases. Continue reading
The last time I talked to you about Windows Phone security, I showed you how to encrypt your data and save it in Isolated Storage using Silverlight’s AesManaged class to create a Key and an Initialization Vector (IV) based on … Continue reading
If you’re a student of beautiful, usable, minimalist user interface design, download Google Currents for iOS & Android to see what’s possible.
Just a few thoughts on concepts needed to give mobile users of your SOA infrastructure the best, fastest User eXperience possible: If you care about speed & scalability, your web service will always check the distributed cache before querying the … Continue reading
Check out our newest, state of the art, fast attack submarine…the Virginia Class. Torpedoes, Tomahawks, and SEALs. -Rob
It looks like Lockheed Martin plans to build unmanned, robotic, yellow submarines that can inspect underwater oil platforms. Their first sub is named Marlin and measures 10 feet long by four feet wide. The battery-powered vehicle can be dropped from … Continue reading
I’m thrilled to announce my exciting new underwater adventure novel for middle-grade and young adult readers is now available in paperback! Follow literature’s next generation of young heroes as they take command of a nuclear submarine to brave the ocean … Continue reading
In my ‘Consumerization of IT Collides with MEAP’ article last week, I described how to connect Android smartphones and tablets to Microsoft’s On-Premise infrastructure. In this week’s scenario, I’ll use the picture below to illustrate how Android utilizes many of … Continue reading
Since 90% of the world’s population has mobile network coverage, lets take a look at how they’re using it, where they’re using it, and what we should expect from the future… Continue reading