Blog Archives

2018

• Open Sourcing Azure Storage Explorer for Mobile

2017

• Switching Comments to StaticMan

• Running OpenWhisk on a VM in Azure

• Xamarin iOS Error Confusion

2016

• Getting Realm to Build Xamarin Apps with VSTS

• Announcing the Azure Usage and Billing Portal

• Going from Mobile Services to Mobile Apps

• Creating a Node.js Azure Mobile App from OS X or Linux

• Codemash 2016

2015

• Using Fragments with the Navigation Drawer Activity

• Updating the Android Version Code on each Build with VSTS

• Getting Started with Node.js on Azure

• Setting up Continuous Deployment for Android with VSTS and HockeyApp

• GitHub Pages Redirects

• Google Apps Execution API

• Changing Blog Platforms Again

• Reflections on 2014 and Looking at 2015

2014

• Is this real life? Microsoft Band

• MonoGame xPlat Starter Project

• Getting SignalR to Work with Azure and Orleans

• Building a Text Adventure with Azure and Orleans

• Playing Old Games in Parallels and Windows 8

• On Teamwork

• Android, Push Notifications, and Azure

• iOS, Push Notifications, and Azure

• 360iDev 2014

• TechEd North America 2014

• Version 1 of the Mobile Services JWT token has been deprecated

• Welcome to Microsoft Azure

• Build 2014 Recap

• Building Cross-Platform Line of Business Apps with Xamarin and Mobile Services

• LensRocket Now Live in App Store and Google Play

• LensRocket for iOS Source Code Released

• PikShare is now LensRocket

• Using the Same Client-Side User with Multiple Azure Mobile Services

• Switching from Full Screen to Non Full Screen Smoothly in Android

• Custom Authentication with Azure Mobile Services and LensRocket

• LensRocket: A Photo and Video Sharing App Built with Azure

2013

• Performing Multiple SQL Queries with queryRaw in Azure Mobile Services Scripts

• Centering Android Toasts

• Accessing Resources Secured By Azure Active Directory with iOS and Android

• Debugging with Runscope

• Connecting Google Glass and Windows Azure Mobile Services

• Announcing Notification Hubs General Availability

• New Features for Mobile Services: Custom API, Script Source Control, Shared Scripts, and NPM Support

• Build 2013-Attack of the Mobile Services

• Join me for DevChat

• Importing the Mobile Services Quick Start App into Android Studio

• Changing the SDK Path with Android Studio

• CountDownLatchs and Android

• Accessing Twitter API v1.1 from Mobile Services Scripts

• Authentication with iOS and Windows Azure Mobile Services

• Authentication with Android and Windows Azure Mobile Services

• Authentication with Windows Azure Mobile Services

• Unwinding with iOS and Storyboards

• iOS and Mobile Services and Windows Azure Storage

• Android and Mobile Services and Windows Azure Storage

• Mobile Services and Windows Azure Storage

• Connecting Multiple Clients to the Same Mobile Service

• The Amazing CocoaConf

• Adding Push Notifications to Android Apps with Mobile Services

• Adding Authentication to Android Apps with Mobile Services

• Announcing Android Support for Mobile Services

• New iOS Samples for Windows Azure Mobile Services

• Using the Unofficial Android SDK for Windows Azure Mobile Services

• 31 Days of iOS-Postmortem

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 31-Submitting your App to the App Store

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 30-Adding Google Analytics to your App

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 29-Advertising with iAd

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 28-Activity Indicators

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 27-Push Notifications Part 2: The Code

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 26-Push Notifications Part 1: The Setup

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 25-The Application Life Cycle

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 24-The View Life Cycle

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 23-Using Background Threads

• CodeMash 2013 Complete!

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 22-Using the Gallery

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 21-Using the Camera

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 20-Displaying Information on Maps

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 19-Showing the User’s Location with Maps

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 18-Opening your App from a Website

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 17-Using the Debug Console

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 16-Handling Device Orientation

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 15-Connecting to Built in Apps

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 14-The UIWebView

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 13-The TableView

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 12-Core Data

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 11-Saving data using NSUserDefaults

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 10-Singletons and the AppDelegate

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 9-Handling Text Input

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 8-Performing Posts and Setting Request Type

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 7-Making Network Requests

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 6-The Delegate Pattern

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 5-Programmatically showing View Controllers

• Common Scenarios with Windows Azure Mobile Services

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 4-Working with Multiple View Controllers and Storyboards

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 3-Our First App

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 2-An Intro to Objective-C

2012

• 31 Days of iOS: Day 1 - Getting Set Up for Development

• 31 Days of iOS

• Announcing Scheduled Scripts with Windows Azure Mobile Services

• Using Existing Databases with Windows Azure Mobile Services without changing the Schema

• Build 2012-Mobile Solutions with Windows Azure

• Adding Auth and Logging out of an iOS Windows Azure Mobile Services App

• 1DevDay 2012

• Windows AzureConf

• This Site Now Powered By Windows Azure Websites!

• Announcing the Windows Azure Mobile Services iOS SDK

• Connecting an Existing Database to Windows Azure Mobile Services

• MacTech and 1 Dev Day 2012

• Storing Images from Android in Windows Azure Mobile Services

• Storing Images from iOS in Windows Azure Mobile Services

• Mobile Geolocation Apps with Windows Azure Websites Part 5: Adding New Points of Interest in Android

• Deleting Tables in Windows Azure Mobile Services

• Mobile Geolocation Apps with Windows Azure Websites Part 4: Displaying Points of Interest in Android

• Mobile Geolocation Apps with Windows Azure Websites Part 3: Adding New Points of Interest in iOS

• Mobile Geolocation Apps with Windows Azure Websites Part 2: Displaying Points of Interest in iOS

• Mobile Geolocation Apps with Windows Azure Websites Part 1: The PHP Code

• Mobile Geolocation Apps with Windows Azure Websites

• URL Shortener with Windows Azure Websites - Screencasts

• Windows Azure Mobile Services and Android

• Windows Azure Mobile Services and iOS

• Windows Azure Training Kit Updated with iOS and Android Examples

• Announcing Windows Azure Mobile Services

• URL Shortener now Available on GitHub

• Accessing the Shared Preferences of a Different Application in Android

• iOS and Windows Azure Communication using SignalR

• Using PEAR with Windows Azure Websites and PHP

• Windows Azure Websites and Mobile Clients: Wrap Up

• Windows Azure Websites and Mobile Clients Part 8: The Android Client Finished

• Windows Azure Websites and Mobile Clients Part 7: The Android Client Continued

• Windows Azure Websites and Mobile Clients Part 6: The Android Client

• Windows Azure Websites and Mobile Clients Part 5: The iOS Client Finished

• Windows Azure Websites and Mobile Clients Part 4: The iOS Client Continued

• Windows Azure Websites and Mobile Clients Part 3: The iOS Client

• Windows Azure Websites and Mobile Clients Part 2: The PHP Code

• Windows Azure Websites and Mobile Clients Part 1: The URL Shortener

• Running Android Virtual Devices and Installing APKs without Eclipse

• Assigning a Block for each URL Connection in iOS

• Updates to the Windows Azure iOS Toolkit

• CodeMash 2012

2011

• 31 Days of Android-Postmortem and What's Next

• 31 Days of Android: Day 31-Putting your Apps in the Marketplace

• 31 Days of Android: Day 30-Advertisements

• 31 Days of Android: Day 29-Using the Camera

• 31 Days of Android: Day 28-Intents Part 3: Service Intents

• 31 Days of Android: Day 27-Intents Part 2

• 31 Days of Android: Day 26-Intents

• 31 Days of Android: Day 25-Content Providers

• 31 Days of Android: Day 24-Using SQLite Databases

• 31 Days of Android: Day 23-Writing and Reading Files

• 31 Days of Android: Day 22-Shared Preferences

• 31 Days of Android: Day 21-The Activity Lifecycle

• 31 Days of Android: Day 20-ListViews

• 31 Days of Android: Day 19-ScrollViews

• 31 Days of Android: Day 18-The Webview

• 31 Days of Android: Day 17-Animating between Activities

• 31 Days of Android: Day 16-Notifications

• 31 Days of Android: Day 15-Toasts

• 31 Days of Android: Day 14-Table Layout and Frame Layout

• 31 Days of Android: Day 13-Relative Layouts

• 31 Days of Android: Day 12-Linear Layouts

• 31 Days of Android: Day 11-Device Orientation

• 31 Days of Android: Day 10-The Back Button

• 31 Days of Android: Day 9-Debugging your Applications

• 31 Days of Android: Day 8-The Android Project Structure

• 31 Days of Android: Day 7-Sharing Data Between Activities

• 31 Days of Android: Day 6-Options Menus and Base Activities

• 31 Days of Android: Day 5-Adding Multiple Activities and using Intents

• 31 Days of Android: Day 4-Our First App

• 31 Days of Android: Day 3 - A Java Refresher

• 31 Days of Android: Day 2 - Creating Android Virtual Devices (AVDs)

• 31 Days of Android: Day 1 - Getting Set Up for Development

• 31 Days of Android

• C2DM Presentation a Success

• Some Thoughts on Siri and Google

• Speaking at CodeMash and OneDevDay Detroit

• Installing extjwnl to a MySQL Database on OS X or Linux

• My First Triathlon: Tri at the Tavern

• Getting through the GATE: Innovation Time for Everyone

• Things I Don't Like

• Samsung Chromebook Unboxed and Occasionally Used

• Google Plus One Enabled!

• Importing Comments into Disqus

• Blog Upgrade Number One

• No Parameterless Constructor when Binding to a Custom View Model

• Veritas-Continuing the UI-Part 12

• Veritas-Continuing the UI-Part 11

• I'm Going to Google IO…and you're probably Not

• Veritas - Designing the UI - Part 10

• Veritas - Incorporating MetaWeblog API - Part 9

• Committing Treason against Microsoft

• The Jetta has a Tumor

2010

• this is a test

• Veritas - Error Logging - Part 8

• Running in the Free Press Half Marathon and Raising Money for the American Cancer Society

• Veritas - Site Configuration - Part 7

• Veritas - Data Access with Entity Framework 4.0 - Part 6

• Veritas - Base Objects - Part 5

• Veritas - Creating the Project and Solution Structure - Part 4

• Veritas: Database Design Continued - Part 3

• New Hosting at Last

• Veritas: Database Design - Part 2

• Veritas: Creating a Blog Engine with MVC 2 and .Net 4.0 - Part 1

• Debugging in Visual Studio 2005 on Windows 7 and IE8

• Configuration 500 Errors when Deploying a .Net 4.0 Site

• MVC2 - Adding Data Annotation Validation for Entity Framework Entities

• Mix 10 Days 1and 2

• Haxorz want into my Ftp

• How to Quickly Show a Gravatar

• A Few Web Fixes

• GoDaddy and the Mysterious Case of Spammed Email

• The Mix10k Lunch Wheel

• Comment Notifications, Engage

• How to Interview: Part 1

• SEO Blog Entry Links using MVC

• Windows 7 IIS 7.5 Site Failure

• Programmatically Accessing Outlook Contacts Via Exchange Web Services

2009

• The Microsoft Store Needs some Work

• Atomic Wars

• AtomicInternet Killed my Site

• Xbox Ordered

• I want to go to Mix 2010

• Charlie Weis

• Free Hot Pockets? Hell No

• The Pumpkin Drop

• Death and the Edge of Stupidity

• How to Create a VarChar(Max) Column in GoDaddy's Sql Admin

• Things we Like: Getting Rewarded for Drinking

• How to NOT Upgrade your Computer to Windows 7

• Ode to an Opossum

• Wrong Hole

• Detroit Free Press Marathon - Where the Homeless can go Clothes Shopping

• I miss this Vista Pizza!

• Going, Going, Back, Back to College……..

• Alcohol on ice

• Worst State In The Union

• Adding a Web Slice to your Site

• P90x - Week 2 - and How to be Productive so you can be Lazy

• Ineffective Atomic and His Ineffective Gnome Cam

• Quick Comments Engage!

• Another Morlock

• Jimmy Johns Day 09

• The Bacon Cheesy Potato Burrito

• 1 and a Half Years after Leaving my House, DTE Still Sucks

• Mmmmmmm Bacon

• Eating Healthy, or at Least Trying To

• Get your Risner Beer and Ale

• The Blog is Back!