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Earlier this week I presented a talk to the Silverlight UK User Group on cross-platform application development with WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7.
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I have just published an article on codeproject which describes the differences in development between Silverlight and HTML5.
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This post outlines a general purpose alternative to ArrayLists which provide lazy insertions and deletions to speed up those operations.
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Readers of my blog will probably have noticed that I have a keen interest in both charting and performance.
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When I started the Metro In Motion series, I thought I would probably post three or four articles and be done. However, every time I use my Windows Phone 7 I seem to spot a new 'native' fluid UI effect which I would like to use in my own code.
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This blog post details a simple metro-in-motion behaviour which reduces the Panorama control's contents while the user slides from item-to-item so that they can really appreciate your fancy background graphic!
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This post demonstrates how to re-template a Visiblox Chart to render data with mathematical-style "on-chart" axes.
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Up until now I have found the term "anonymous" pretty confusing in the context of JavaScript. In this post I'll explain how to define anonymous functions, what "anonymous" means, and what uses these functions have.
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This blog post describes the development of a rolling list location indicator. This indicator mirrors the behaviour seen in the native Windows Phone 7 calendar which rolls from one date to the next as the user scrolls.
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In this first installment, I'll introduce the appcache, talk about some gotchas of using the appcache and hopefully give some helpful hints for debugging it based on my experience.
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OK, this is a little behind the times since I'm talking about jQuery 1.3.2 - but it may be useful to someone.
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This blog post shows how to implement tombstoning within a Windows Phone 7 application that following the Model-View-ViewModel pattern.
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Each project is different and each client has different needs. Scott Logic has the flexibility to fit in with client requirements - but often we are asked to take on ownership of the process of software development, as well as the day to day mechanics of cutting code.
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For the past few months I have been writing a Metro-In-Motion blog series which describes how to recreate some of the fluid effects found in native Windows Phone 7 applications within your own applications.
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In this post I am going to look at the similarities between jQuery Deferred and Microsoft Reactive Extensions, and supply code which will convert between the two.
