So You Want To Build Apps?

If you want to build apps for any number of mobile devices we thought we would provide those resources to you. The emerging mobile application space has exploded in recent years with developers even ametures making lots of money on the side with little marketing or other resources you would normally think of as having been done by a full company. From hobbiest to students and professionals ever one is building apps. Start by picking your poison (the platform you are interested in)

Android (Phone and Tablets)
Dominating the marketing but in a very fragmented way. Certainly the potential to really be the best platform if the carriers every can get out of the way. http://developer.android.com/index.html

iOS (iPhone/iPad)
The platform that started it all and arguable the best industrial design for mobile platforms... iOS. http://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action

Cross platform Native(ish)
more or less a .NET environment like Java for mobile ...

Read the rest at: http://www.vnext.org/if-apps/so-you-want-to-build-apps

The Crazy Ones, One More Thing and Apple

I found out today that Steve Jobs has died today. I know over the years I've had a love hate relationship with Apple, some of you know me for my work as a Silverlight MVP drinking the kooliade but in 1996 or so I was sporting my Powerbook 150 and doing some ANSI C in code warrior and waiting for the next edition of Mac Addict in the mail while I would fight with the Mac Toolbox. I still keep that power book on my shelf to remind me of where I started.

Steve Jobs was a visionary, no one was perfect and like most shining stars they were not always fun to work with but Steve Jobs vision for industrial design and out of the box thinking has really changed the world. In my industry with so many smart people coming up with cool stuff all the time, Job's has been in many ways our guiding light, raising the bar and moving civilization forward. Steve knew that it wasn't about what we could do as much as how we can do it with style. His life's work is littered with revolutionary work that has fundamentally broken us out of the box. Even at the big Microsoft Conference BUILD a few weeks ago looking at all the new hardware coming out next year... really it was all inspired by Jobs. He has made us all better and his loss no matter what side of the kooliade your are drinking is lose to us all. He inspired us, he changed us and his mark will forever be felt in the human family. It truly is a sad day when one of our brightest stars passe's and to all those in the community, at Apple and his family. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and we all morn his loss.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rwsuXHA7RA&feature=player_embedded&noredirect=1

MIX 2010 - in 10 seconds...

um...

windows phone 7

Silverlight 4

better ux

lots of parties (MIXer was awesome)

OData (ado v35.5?)

number of problems with conference direction, still coolest of the public ms conferences

did I mention the iphone killer windows phone 7 (aka, Zune Phone, windows mobile 7) and amazingly enough it might actually be some real competition for iphone, ux is awesome (after 4+ freaking years it had better fraking be freaking awesome)

You can get all the videos here http://live.visitmix.com/Videos

AND Wirestone sponsored it, stole a sign with our Wirestone logo and more parties and friends.

The worst part of MIX was not getting to see everyone I was hoping to. there may have been talk of other things such as azure but they are really that critical and I didn't pay attention...

Did I say windows phone 7 and all its apps are Silverlight and XNA? freaking awesome

No Silverlight for iPhone

check out this post:

"Microsoft said it was probably not going to be putting its Flash competitor Silverlight on Apple's iPhone 3G, but said it was keeping a watchful eye on Google's Android platform, and said Silverlight might get onto T-Mobile's G1. "

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/microsoft-no-silverlight-iphone-maybe-g1/2008-10-14

Silverlight on the iPhone

don't get to excited Silverlight wasn't running ON the iphone but we did manage to get a silverlight app servered up from an iphone... So we thought we would have some fun and install an entire web site on an iphone, install it on our network in the data center and for extra special fun we pointed a high end web stress tool at the phone...

I was surprised to see that the phone for the first 3 minutes of the test was doing well with well over 163 concurrent users at a time on the site but at 16971 hits it melted...

http://www.hackingsilverlight.net/samples/iPhone/iphone.JPG
http://www.hackingsilverlight.net/samples/iPhone/IPhoneWebServer.jpg
http://www.hackingsilverlight.net/samples/iPhone/MVI_8003.AVI
http://www.hackingsilverlight.net/samples/iPhone/Site.jpg

as cool as this is Devin did manage to get his iphone recovered but it took some doing. currently though apache is dead and Devin is trying to get it running again...