If you haven’t noticed, I am a .net developer but I was inspired today by Matt Cutt’s TED talk to start a 30-day project. I highly recommend watching it; it might inspire you too. So I have decided to spend 30 days with Ruby on Rails and blog it right here. Stay tuned for [...]
This turned out to be easier than expected. Step 1: Download node.exe Get it from http://nodejs.org/#download and put it somewhere in your path e.g. c:\node Step 2: Install git Get it from here and install into your windows console if you want to use the windows command prompt instead of bash Step 3: Install NPM [...]
ASP.NET development has come a long way. It’s now easier to practice Test Driven Development (TDD) thanks to ASP.NET MVC and all the open source tools out there from Ninject to Moq to Entity Framework Code First. But one thing remains real sucky in the .net world and that is deployment. Have you tried deploying [...]
A new version of “Dude, Where Is My Update?” (marketplace link) was published last night and it now includes some interesting stats. Here are some of the more interesting stats: The most popular phone so far is Samsung Focus standing at about 42%. Interestingly, 38% of users have the latest version of Windows Phone 7 [...]
I am running a limited time trial to test my in-app advertising system and its effectiveness. If you are interested and want to promote your Windows Phone 7 app for free, then email me at wp7ads at dotnetfactory.com. Your ad will show up in my app “Dude, Where Is My Update?”. You could potentially receive [...]