Windows Phone 7 push notifications are tricky. Take Microsoft’s clear-as-mudd “overview” diagram, for example… All sorts of colors and arrows going on there. The green parts represent code that you write, and the blue parts represent what Microsoft already has in place. The numbers and arrows represent the awkward dance between them. I’ll try to [...]
In my last blog entry “Assembling Old-School Skills” I bemoaned the fact (or what I thought the fact was) that Visual Studio 2010 ended up just being a glorified text editor when doing MASM development. Buzzzz! Wrong! You can in fact configure Visual Studio 2010 for use in MASM Assembly development. The following list of [...]
I’ve programmed in IBM 360 and VAX Assembly before but I have been working in a Microsoft Windows environment on an Intel x86/x64 hardware platform for quite a while. That little reminder in the back of my head has kept popping up saying it was time to learn Intel Assembler but the auto-click to “close [...]
Here at InterKnowlogy we have the benefit of working on a lot of cutting edge technologies. A good deal of our first looks at different technologies involve installing alpha/beta bits that may or may not install or uninstall properly and may or may not play nice with existing technologies that we use in other projects. [...]
I know, first thing you’re asking is “What is Ctrl+D”? It’s a keyboard command I fell in love with back in VS 2005 days – a “light” version of the FIND dialog. I’m assuming everyone knows about Ctrl+F, which brings up the standard FIND dialog. But in VS 2010 it’s disappointingly slow to present the [...]
Disclaimer: InterKnowlogy is not in the business of writing gambling or casino games. This application was only written for research, with no intention of using it in a real gaming situation. VIDEO Here at InterKnowlogy, we have a program called RECESS (Research and Experimental Coding to Enhance Software Skills) – where we get to spend [...]
I’m doing a webcast on behalf of the Microsoft Healthcare Division on Tuesday, October 20th at 11:00 AM PST. I will be demoing a ton of cool software we have built in the healthcare and life science space in Surface, WPF and Silverlight…Multi-Touch!. The details and how to sign up are below. The tricky thing [...]
Introduction 5 days ~600 miles travelled in rental cars 6 flights 2 stressful technology presentations A handful of exciting and somewhat stressful wilderness and travel incidents A bit of stress on Kelly and the kids because of my 5 days away: mostly without cell or internet 5 famous rivers 3 states 2 National Parks Multiple [...]
The popular Snoop tool from Peter Blois has been out for a long time, and I use it almost every day in my WPF development. However, there has always been something missing: a native 64-bit version. My coworker Joe and I finally decided that it was worth looking into building one. There were a few [...]
After trying out the new features in Blend 3 I’m definitely looking forward to the full release. It already seems to be more responsive than Blend 2 SP1 while navigating around files, templates, selected elements, etc, even at this pre-Beta stage. I was disappointed to see SketchFlow missing from the Preview, but look forward to [...]