By Simon|Android, Events, iOS, Microsoft, Mobile, Neudesic, Windows Phone 7|Be the first to comment!
Are you in or around the Irvine, CA area on Wednesday January 19th 2011? If so, you may want to attend an evening panel session on Where mobile business applications are headed in 2011. I’ll be presenting together with Kevin Boyle from Microsoft, Autumn Radtke from Geodelic, and Jack Bicer from Septium. The event is [...]
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For those interested, I’m going to be hosting a couple of mobility-related webcasts in the next couple of months. You can find the details below. I’m really looking forward to them, and hope you are able to join! Click on the titles to register for the events. The Future of Mobility 1/25/2011 (10am – 11am [...]
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Although Windows Phone 7 (WP7) has support for a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) client, connecting to Web services that require authentication can be a little quirky. After working on a project over the holidays putting together a WP7 client to connect to a Web service requiring authentication, this is what I found: 1. NTLM/Kerberos is [...]
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I’ve just passed the two week mark here at Neudesic. As anyone who has changed companies knows, getting up to speed with the internal workings of a new organization can be like drinking from a firehose! One of the most interesting things I’ve come across to date is an application called Pulse. In essence, Pulse [...]
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As many of you have already heard, after almost 10 years at Microsoft, I have decided to move on to a new adventure. On Tuesday I will be joining Neudesic, a national system integrator, helping start and grow their mobile solutions practice. Although it feels strange to say goodbye, Neudesic is a leading Microsoft partner, so [...]
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Kylen, my 6 year old son, is really into world flags. At home we have a sheet of around 200 flags from across the globe, and he’s pretty close at reciting all of them (and certainly much better than Mom and Dad!). Spending a couple of hours over labor day last month, I set myself [...]
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QCon is one of my favorite conferences. Although it’s a relatively small gathering compared to TechEd or JavaOne, it always has an awesome selection of sessions and speakers. Last year was amazing, and I had the honor of presenting a session (Patterns for Cloud Computing) in one of the many great tracks. This year (San [...]
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As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ll be participating in a panel at JavaOne on Monday. With a similar format to last year, each panelist is given 5 – 10 minutes before it opens up for general discussion. Rather than showing a bunch of marketing slides, I thought it would be more interesting to [...]
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I recently found out that I will be speaking at JavaOne again this year! I’ll be participating on a quick-fire demo panel called Taking Java to the Sky: Cloud Computing 2010 Expert Panel together with representatives from Oracle, Salesforce, and Amazon. Raghavan Srinivas will again be doing a wonderful job by moderating the session, and you can [...]
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I’ve been working on an application that has a need to log many events on a Web Role running on Windows Azure. Effective logging can be difficult to setup. Do a search, and you’ll find a handful of articles that cover logging to the blobstore, mounting drives to extract the logs, etc. Instead, I wanted [...]
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