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First Phase of the Reboot of SmartyPantsCoding.com
I'm very happy to report that today I've deployed the first set of changes for the reboot of SmartyPantsCoding.com. The changes pushed today are a first step...
SmartyPantsCoding.com Reboot Coming Soon
You might have noticed that this blog has been dead as a doornail as of late. It's hard to believe it's been over a year since my last blog posting. Things...
Publishing a Windows Phone App? Enter to Win a Free Windows Phone
Have you published an app to the Windows Phone marketplace recently? Are you about to? Have you got 4 apps already in the marketplace? There is a contest going...
R.I.P. Imagewind for Windows Phone [Update - It's gone]
R.I.P. Imagewind for WP7: 3/16 - 3/30 After being in the Windows Phone marketplace for just two weeks, I am very sad to say that Imagewind for Windows Phone is...
Examples of WP7 Marketplace Certification Failures
I have now made it through a baker's dozen Windows Phone Marketplace certification attempts for SmartyPantsGaming, and thought I would share the various ways...
Day Long Silverlight Firestarter Streaming Live on December 2nd, 2010
An all day free Silverlight Firestarter is coming up on December 2nd, and you can watch it live from the comfort of your own home (or attend in person if...
Announcing Smarty Pants Gaming at SmartyPantsGaming.com
It has been a very long month of working hard to knock out two launch titles for Windows Phone 7 - Hungry Castaway and Matchingo. I have just put up a new site...
How to Customize Your XNA Game Tile on the Windows Phone 7 Start Page
Currently if you build an XNA game and run it on the WP7 emulator you'll note that once you exit the program, it isn't listed in the main application list like...
A Cheat Sheet for Unit Testing Silverlight Apps on Windows Phone 7
I've been planning on writing a quick overview of the basics of unit testing in Silverlight for a while now. Since Windows Phone 7 is the hot topic now, and...
Animating a Silverlight Object's Embed Size Using jQuery or MooTools
One of the projects I'm working on right now requires having a Silverlight object on a page grow to be larger and shrink to be smaller as its containing <div>...
Latest status update
Migrated 110 posts off old Drupal site and relaunched SmartyPantsCoding.com as a Markdown-based Astro site. Also making new work public — Line Diet reboot and in-progress ChurchBells.