Earlier today I received an email informing me that I have been awarded a CodeProject MVP for the year 2013. I am very grateful to CodeProject for this award - it is a very popular website for developers, with around 10 million members, and thousands of authors. It is an honour to be among the company of the ~30 other MVPs.
This year I have contributed five articles to Codeproject:
- KnockoutJS vs. Silverlight - An article that helps people transition from Silverlight to Knockout and JavaScript.
- Plotting Circular Relationship Graphs with Silverlight - An article that I wrote on my travels to Denmark, a bit of fun with data visualisation.
- A Gesture-Driven Windows Phone To-Do List - which describes how to create a to-do list application which is controlled via multi-touch gestures. This article won the "Best Mobile article of July 2012" award.
- Property Finder - a Cross-Platform HTML5 Mobile App - which was an article about the use of HTML5 for cross-platform development, this was the 'seed' for the PropertyCross project
- Clearer - A Gesture-Driven Windows 8 To-Do Application - which was basically my attempt to win an Ultrabook by re-hashing my earlier Windows Phone article ... which worked :-)
That's one more article than I contributed the previous year!
Over the past year my development interests have diversified, in 2011 I was mainly focused on WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone. I now find myself spending just as much time on JavaScript and iOS - neither of which are really the core focus for CodeProject. I will probably be writing for Ray Wenderlich's iOS site just as much as CodeProject throughout 2013, however, I doubt I will ever give up on CodeProject. It has such a lively community, attracts some of the best technical authors, and provides them with a great environment to work within.
Regards, Colin E.
