<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>smartypantscoding.com</title><description>Software notes, tutorials, and side projects.</description><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/</link><item><title>A modern AI reboot for my website and blog</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/a-modern-ai-reboot-of-smartypantscoding/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/a-modern-ai-reboot-of-smartypantscoding/</guid><description>How I finally got around to rebuilding this site after nearly a decade — it only took an AI revolution in development for me to finally have the time to get it done.</description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Line Diet is Back - and Open Source!</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/line-diet-is-back-and-open-source/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/line-diet-is-back-and-open-source/</guid><description>Get it now, or check out the project on Github Back in July of 2013 I released an app called Line Diet for iPhone written using Xamarin.iOS. A few years later...</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lessons Learned Customizing Xamarin.Forms Slide Deck</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/lessons-learned-with-xamarin-forms-slide-deck/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/lessons-learned-with-xamarin-forms-slide-deck/</guid><description>I was invited to speak at the Atlanta Xamarin Users Group this week, and I decided to share a bit about the Xamarin.Forms work I&apos;ve been doing of late. Over...</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Word Search Little Books Featured on VerizonWireless.com</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/word-search-little-books-featured-on-verizonwireless/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/word-search-little-books-featured-on-verizonwireless/</guid><description>Get Word Search Little Books now! I&apos;m very excited to see that Verizon Wireless has decided to feature my game Word Search Little Books in the App Finder on...</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Word Scramble Little Books Now Available on iOS and Android</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/word-scramble-little-books-now-available-on-ios-and-android/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/word-scramble-little-books-now-available-on-ios-and-android/</guid><description>My latest game, Word Scramble Little Books is now available on the iTunes App Store and Google Play! Get it now for free in the iTunes App Store and Google...</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mapping with Xamarin Talk</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/mapping-with-xamarin-talk/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/mapping-with-xamarin-talk/</guid><description>Today I am giving a presentation on mapping with Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.iOS, and Xamarin.Forms as part of the Virtual Xamarin Users Group. In this talk I...</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Using Custom Unwind Segues with Xamarin.iOS</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/using-custom-unwind-segues-in-xamarin-ios/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/using-custom-unwind-segues-in-xamarin-ios/</guid><description>As you probably know by now, I&apos;m a huge advocate for Xamarin technologies for native iOS and Android apps. After trying to implement some custom unwind segues...</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Matchingo Now Available on Windows Phone and Kindle Fire</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/matchingo-now-available-on-windows-phone-and-kindle-fire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/matchingo-now-available-on-windows-phone-and-kindle-fire/</guid><description>I am super excited to say that Matchingo is now available in all major mobile app stores including the Windows Phone Store and the Amazon App Store! With these...</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Matchingo Launches on iOS and Android</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/matchingo-launches-on-ios-and-android/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/matchingo-launches-on-ios-and-android/</guid><description>Matchingo - Get it Now! I&apos;m super excited to announce that Matchingo is live on the iTunes App Store and Google Play! Support for Windows Phone and Kindle Fire...</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cross Platform Matchingo Reboot Incoming</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/cross-platform-matchingo-reboot-incoming/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/cross-platform-matchingo-reboot-incoming/</guid><description>I&apos;m excited to announce that Matchingo is getting a much deserved reboot. Matchingo was a game I released on the web and Windows Phone using Silverlight way...</description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Word Search Little Books Lands on Windows Phone</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/word-search-little-books-lands-on-windows-phone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/word-search-little-books-lands-on-windows-phone/</guid><description>I am super excited to announce that Word Search Little Books is now available on the Windows Phone Store! That means that WSLB is now on essentially every...</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deck from &apos;Practical Mobile UI / UX for Developers&apos; Talk at the Atlanta Mobile Developers Meetup</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/deck-from-mobile-ux-talk-at-atlanta-mobile-developers-group/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/deck-from-mobile-ux-talk-at-atlanta-mobile-developers-group/</guid><description>I was lucky enough to get to present at the Atlanta Mobile Developers Group earlier this week where I talked about sketching, wireframing, and other user...</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Slides from &apos;Monetizing Mobile Games&apos; Talk at the Atlanta Code Camp 2013</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/slides-from-monetizing-mobile-games-talk-at-the-atlanta-code-camp/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/slides-from-monetizing-mobile-games-talk-at-the-atlanta-code-camp/</guid><description>I had a great time this weekend at the Atlanta Code Camp where I had the opportunity to give a talk on Monetizing Mobile Games. I&apos;ve just uploaded this slide...</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Official Launch of Line Diet for iPhone</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/the-official-launch-of-line-diet-for-iphone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/the-official-launch-of-line-diet-for-iphone/</guid><description>Announcing Line Diet for iPhone - huzzah! Find out all the details at LineDietApp.com. Below is some background on the project for those interested in those...</description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Vote for My Codestock 2013 Mobile Talks!</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/vote-for-my-codestock-2013-mobile-talks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/vote-for-my-codestock-2013-mobile-talks/</guid><description>If you live in the Southeast and are a coder (or interested in being one) then hopefully you already know about Codestock hosted annually in Knoxville, TN....</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>All Mobile Everything Podcast Coming Soon</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/all-mobile-everything-podcast-coming-soon/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/all-mobile-everything-podcast-coming-soon/</guid><description>This is just an early heads up that I&apos;ll be launching a new mobile-centric podcast later next week called the All Mobile Everything Podcast. The podcast will...</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Imagewind Now Available on iTunes App Store</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/imagewind-now-available-on-itunes-app-store/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/imagewind-now-available-on-itunes-app-store/</guid><description>I am very excited to announce that Imagewind has been released today for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. You can download Imagewind from the iTunes App Store, or...</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Presentation Deck on Casual Game Development and Mobile Strategies</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/presentation-deck-on-casual-game-development-and-mobile-strategies/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/presentation-deck-on-casual-game-development-and-mobile-strategies/</guid><description>I just posted a copy of the deck I presented at the Windows Apps Meetup last night onto Slideshare. The talk was broken into two parts. The first part covers...</description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Presenting at the Windows Apps Meetup on Mobile Game Development</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/presenting-at-the-windows-app-meetup-on-mobile-game-development/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/presenting-at-the-windows-app-meetup-on-mobile-game-development/</guid><description>Sorry for the late notice, but I&apos;ll be presenting Monday at the Atlanta Windows Apps Meetup in Alpharetta. You can find out more about the meetup (which is...</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Quick Overview Video of MonoTouch for C# Devs</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/quick-overview-video-of-monotouch-for-c-sharp-devs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/quick-overview-video-of-monotouch-for-c-sharp-devs/</guid><description>I&apos;ve been heads down coding the last few months. From writing Word Search Little Books for Android, Kindle Fire, Windows 8, and iPad/iPhone, to now porting an...</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Word Search Little Books Released for iPad and iPhone</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/word-search-little-books-released-for-ipad-and-iphone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/word-search-little-books-released-for-ipad-and-iphone/</guid><description>I&apos;m very excited to announce that Word Search Little Books is now available on iOS! I ported the Windows 8 version to iOS using Xamarin&apos;s MonoTouch - and it...</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Announcing All Mobile Everything - My New Mobile Consultancy</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/announcing-all-mobile-everything-my-new-mobile-consultancy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/announcing-all-mobile-everything-my-new-mobile-consultancy/</guid><description>Back in late September I wrote a blog post about how I had quit my day job to pursue my own dreams of being an independent mobile developer. Today I am excited...</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Word Search Little Books Now Available in the Windows Store!</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/word-search-little-books-now-available-in-the-windows-store/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/word-search-little-books-now-available-in-the-windows-store/</guid><description>I&apos;m very excited to announce that Word Search Little Books is now available for Windows 8 in the Windows Store! This marks the first app from SmartyPantsCoding...</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Official Promo Video for Word Search - Little Books!</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/official-promo-video-for-word-search-little-books/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/official-promo-video-for-word-search-little-books/</guid><description>Download now at WordSearchLittleBooks.com. The official promo video for my latest game Word Search - Little Books is now on Youtube! Please check it out above....</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Word Search - Little Books now available on Android!</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/word-search-little-books-now-available-on-android/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/word-search-little-books-now-available-on-android/</guid><description>Visit WordSearchLittleBooks.com to download now! I am very happy to announce that Word Search - Little Books, my latest game, is now available for all Android...</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>My New Adventure as an Independent Mobile Developer in Atlanta</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/my-new-adventure-as-an-independent-mobile-developer-in-atlanta/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/my-new-adventure-as-an-independent-mobile-developer-in-atlanta/</guid><description>It&apos;s official - I&apos;ve quit my day job. I can remember ~10 years ago talking to my buddy about how one day we would be able to write killer apps that would run...</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Facebook&apos;s Emerging Mobile App Strategy</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/facebooks-emerging-mobile-app-strategy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/facebooks-emerging-mobile-app-strategy/</guid><description>In case you didn&apos;t know, there&apos;s money to be made in mobile. Not necessarily by mobile developers like you and me, but most definitely by the app stores that...</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Getting Started with Adobe Brackets</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/getting-started-with-adobe-brackets/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/getting-started-with-adobe-brackets/</guid><description>Adobe Brackets is an open source editor for open standard web languages (html/css/js/less/etc). It is totally free, and is a pretty exciting editor to try out....</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Off Topic: Photoshop Cleanup Timelapse</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/photoshop-cleanup-timelapse/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/photoshop-cleanup-timelapse/</guid><description>I find cleaning up and editing snapshots to be quite fun and a good break from the world from time to time. I recorded a quick Photoshop cleanup job the other...</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Second Phase of the Reboot of SmartyPantsCoding.com</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/second-phase-of-the-reboot-of-smartypantscoding-com/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/second-phase-of-the-reboot-of-smartypantscoding-com/</guid><description>This weekend I rolled out large parts of the second phase of the reboot of SmartyPantsCoding.com. This time around the primary changes all centered around the...</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>First Phase of the Reboot of SmartyPantsCoding.com</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/first-phase-of-the-reboot-of-smartypantscoding-com/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/first-phase-of-the-reboot-of-smartypantscoding-com/</guid><description>I&apos;m very happy to report that today I&apos;ve deployed the first set of changes for the reboot of SmartyPantsCoding.com. The changes pushed today are a first step...</description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SmartyPantsCoding.com Reboot Coming Soon</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/smartypantscodingcom-reboot-coming-soon/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/smartypantscodingcom-reboot-coming-soon/</guid><description>You might have noticed that this blog has been dead as a doornail as of late. It&apos;s hard to believe it&apos;s been over a year since my last blog posting. Things...</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Publishing a Windows Phone App? Enter to Win a Free Windows Phone</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/publishing-a-windows-phone-app-enter-to-win-a-free-windows-phone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/publishing-a-windows-phone-app-enter-to-win-a-free-windows-phone/</guid><description>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...</description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>R.I.P. Imagewind for Windows Phone [Update - It&apos;s gone]</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/r_i_p_-imagewind-for-windows-phone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/r_i_p_-imagewind-for-windows-phone/</guid><description>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...</description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Examples of WP7 Marketplace Certification Failures</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/examples-of-wp7-marketplace-certification-failures/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/examples-of-wp7-marketplace-certification-failures/</guid><description>I have now made it through a baker&apos;s dozen Windows Phone Marketplace certification attempts for SmartyPantsGaming, and thought I would share the various ways...</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Day Long Silverlight Firestarter Streaming Live on December 2nd, 2010</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/day-long-silverlight-firestarter-streaming-live-on-december-2nd-2010/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/day-long-silverlight-firestarter-streaming-live-on-december-2nd-2010/</guid><description>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...</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Announcing Smarty Pants Gaming at SmartyPantsGaming.com</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/announcing-smarty-pants-gaming-at-smartypantsgamingcom/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/announcing-smarty-pants-gaming-at-smartypantsgamingcom/</guid><description>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...</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Customize Your XNA Game Tile on the Windows Phone 7 Start Page</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/how-to-customize-your-xna-game-tile-on-the-windows-phone-7-start-page/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/how-to-customize-your-xna-game-tile-on-the-windows-phone-7-start-page/</guid><description>Currently if you build an XNA game and run it on the WP7 emulator you&apos;ll note that once you exit the program, it isn&apos;t listed in the main application list like...</description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Cheat Sheet for Unit Testing Silverlight Apps on Windows Phone 7</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/a-cheat-sheet-for-unit-testing-silverlight-apps-on-windows-phone-7/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/a-cheat-sheet-for-unit-testing-silverlight-apps-on-windows-phone-7/</guid><description>I&apos;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...</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Animating a Silverlight Object&apos;s Embed Size Using jQuery or MooTools</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/animating-a-silverlight-objects-size-using-jquery-or-mootools/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/animating-a-silverlight-objects-size-using-jquery-or-mootools/</guid><description>One of the projects I&apos;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 &lt;div&gt;...</description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Quick Tip: Windows Phone 7 Preprocessor Directive</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/quick-tip-windows-phone-7-preprocessor-directive/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/quick-tip-windows-phone-7-preprocessor-directive/</guid><description>If you&apos;re sharing common code between Windows Phone 7 and other platforms in either Silverlight or XNA, then you may run into a need to fork some code based on...</description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>UI Design and Interaction Guide for Windows Phone v2.0 Released</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/ui-design-and-interaction-guide-for-windows-phone-v20-released/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/ui-design-and-interaction-guide-for-windows-phone-v20-released/</guid><description>An updated version of the UI Design and Interaction Guide for Windows Phone was posted on the Windows Phone 7 forums today. There is also a big collection of...</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Updated Video of Hungry Castaway - An XNA Game for Windows Phone 7</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/updated-video-of-hungry-castaway-an-xna-game-for-windows-phone-7/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/updated-video-of-hungry-castaway-an-xna-game-for-windows-phone-7/</guid><description>Two weeks ago in my post Pre-Alpha Videos of My Windows Phone 7 Games in Development I posted a short video of a game called &apos;Hungry Castaway&apos; that I am...</description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Simple Twitter Panel in Silverlight</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/a-simple-twitter-panel-in-silverlight/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/a-simple-twitter-panel-in-silverlight/</guid><description>While sitting on the couch last weekend, I had the idea for putting up a Twitter panel on my site - you should see it off to the right. I figured since this is...</description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Awarded Silverlight MVP for 2010!</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/awarded-silverlight-mvp-for-2010/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/awarded-silverlight-mvp-for-2010/</guid><description>I am very excited to say that I&apos;ve been awarded the 2010 Microsoft MVP Award in Silverlight! It is very humbling to now carry the same title as many of my...</description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pre-Alpha Videos of My Windows Phone 7 Games in Development</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/pre-alpha-videos-of-my-windows-phone-7-games-in-development/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/pre-alpha-videos-of-my-windows-phone-7-games-in-development/</guid><description>It has been mentioned a few times in the last month or so that if you want a Windows Phone 7 test device, then you need to be showing why you deserve one. Most...</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>June&apos;s Grab Bag of Fun</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/junes-grab-bag-of-fun/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/junes-grab-bag-of-fun/</guid><description>The last month or so has been pretty hectic both at work and in my personal life - but rather than make excuses or promise to blog more frequently, I&apos;ll...</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Choosing Between Silverlight and XNA for a Windows Phone 7 Game</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/choosing-between-silverlight-and-xna-for-a-windows-phone-7-game/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/choosing-between-silverlight-and-xna-for-a-windows-phone-7-game/</guid><description>In my last blog post on XNA for Windows Phone 7 I said that I was working on a game in both Silverlight and XNA, and that if I got a chance to test out...</description><pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Creating a Windows Phone 7 XNA Game in Landscape Orientation</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/creating-a-windows-phone-7-xna-game-in-landscape-orientation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/creating-a-windows-phone-7-xna-game-in-landscape-orientation/</guid><description>Update 07/14/2010: With the latest Beta release of the Windows Phone 7 Tools there is now built in support for landscape games in XNA Game Studio 4.0. I just...</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Speaking at CodeStock 2010</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/speaking-at-codestock-2010/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/speaking-at-codestock-2010/</guid><description>I am very stoked to say that I&apos;ve been selected to speak at CodeStock 2010 in Knoxville, TN on June 25th and 26th. I&apos;ll be doing a revamped version of my...</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Poll: Old VS New Look of the Windows Phone 7 Start Screen</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/poll-old-vs-new-look-of-the-windows-phone-7-start-screen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/poll-old-vs-new-look-of-the-windows-phone-7-start-screen/</guid><description>Ever since Long Zheng pointed out an alternate start screen for Windows Phone 7 I&apos;ve been convinced that the older layout was the better layout. The blank area...</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Using the Facebook Developer Toolkit With Windows Phone 7</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/using-the-facebook-developer-toolkit-with-windows-phone-7/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/using-the-facebook-developer-toolkit-with-windows-phone-7/</guid><description>A couple of people have noticed that the Facebook Developer Toolkit doesn&apos;t work on the current release of Windows Phone 7. The primary reason is that it has a...</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Example Pivot Control for Windows Phone 7</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/example-pivot-control-windows-phone-7/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/example-pivot-control-windows-phone-7/</guid><description>I know I said I was done trying to recreate the Pivot control, but I&apos;m happy to be able to share a standalone Pivot control that I&apos;ve been working on. Keep in...</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Creating a Windows Phone 7 Metro Style Pivot Application [Part 3]</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/creating-windows-phone-7-metro-style-pivot-application-part-3/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/creating-windows-phone-7-metro-style-pivot-application-part-3/</guid><description>This is part 3 - the final part - of how to create a Pivot style application for Windows Phone 7. Attached is the sample project and code for this example. The...</description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Preview of My Current Windows Phone 7 Pivot Work</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/preview-my-current-windows-phone-7-pivot-work/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/preview-my-current-windows-phone-7-pivot-work/</guid><description>I got some feedback after part 1 and part 2 of how to create a Pivot style for your Windows Phone 7 application - what I had created had a few issues. First,...</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Creating a Windows Phone 7 Metro Style Pivot Application [Part 2]</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/creating-windows-phone-7-metro-style-pivot-application-part-2/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/creating-windows-phone-7-metro-style-pivot-application-part-2/</guid><description>Note: It has been noted that this demo and code more closely follow how to create a Panorama style application than a Pivot style application. I hope to fix...</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Creating a Windows Phone 7 Metro Style Pivot Application [Part 1]</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/creating-windows-phone-7-metro-style-pivot-application-part-1/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/creating-windows-phone-7-metro-style-pivot-application-part-1/</guid><description>Note: It has been noted that this screencast and part 2 more closely follow how to create a Panorama style application than a Pivot style application. I hope...</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Metro Icons for Windows Phone 7</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/metro-icons-windows-phone-7/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/metro-icons-windows-phone-7/</guid><description>During the Windows Phone UI and Design Language session at Mix, the presenters talked about the Metro styled icons, and how applications of similar type should...</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Windows Phone 7 Tools Are Here, Time to Get Crackin&apos;</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/windows-phone-7-tools-are-here-time-get-crackin/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/windows-phone-7-tools-are-here-time-get-crackin/</guid><description>I just got back from 5 days in Vegas for Mix 2010 (where I was a top 5 tweeter). Hopefully by now you&apos;ve watched the first day&apos;s keynote and seen some of the...</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Silverlight Playtime on the Nokia N97</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/silverlight-playtime-nokia-n97/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/silverlight-playtime-nokia-n97/</guid><description>I&apos;ve had the chance over the last month or two to play with Silverlight on the Nokia platform. Now that the SDK is available I threw together a video showing...</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Getting Ready for Mix</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/getting-ready-mix/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/getting-ready-mix/</guid><description>I am very lucky to say that I&apos;ll be at Mix 2010 next week. As excited as I am about the event itself, I&apos;m perhaps more excited knowing that I&apos;ll come back with...</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Session Voting Open for CodeStock</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/session-voting-open-codestock/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/session-voting-open-codestock/</guid><description>A month or so ago I submitted my talk Thinking Outside the Battleship Gray Box for consideration at this year&apos;s CodeStock in Knoxville, TN. This talk will be...</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Recent Presentation at the Atlanta Silverlight Meetup</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/recent-presentation-atlanta-silverlight-meetup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/recent-presentation-atlanta-silverlight-meetup/</guid><description>Last week I got the opportunity to present at the Atlanta Silverlight Meetup. I presented a talk entitled &apos;Thinking Outside the Battleship Gray Box&apos; primarily...</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Help Me Win the Mix 10K Smart Coding Challenge</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/help-me-win-mix-10k-smart-coding-challenge/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/help-me-win-mix-10k-smart-coding-challenge/</guid><description>Vote for &apos;Old School Meets New School&apos; for Mix 10k! I have an submitted an entry to the Mix 10k Smart Coding Challenge called Old School Meets New School. This...</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Please Vote for my Mix 2010 Session!</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/please-vote-my-mix-2010-session/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/please-vote-my-mix-2010-session/</guid><description>Developing Without Limitations The voting for the Open Call entries for Mix 2010 sessions is now open, and I would love to have your vote! The title of the...</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Street Fighter Style UI Compositing With Prism</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/street-fighter-style-ui-compositing-prism/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/street-fighter-style-ui-compositing-prism/</guid><description>If you&apos;re into Silverlight or WPF, then you&apos;ve undoubtedly heard the nonstop clamoring over Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight - aka Prism....</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Beta of My Health Info</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/beta-my-health-info/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/beta-my-health-info/</guid><description>It&apos;s been a little less than 2 months since My Health Info launched on MSN. &apos;My Health Info&apos; is the project I&apos;ve been working on at IQ Interactive the last 5+...</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Silverlight Tips Grab Bag for November</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/silverlight-tips-grab-bag-november/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/silverlight-tips-grab-bag-november/</guid><description>I haven&apos;t written a grab bag in a while, so here is a rather impromptu set of tips from lessons learned in developing full-time in Silverlight the last several...</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Screencast on Recent Changes to ImageWind.Net</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/screencast-recent-changes-imagewindnet/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/screencast-recent-changes-imagewindnet/</guid><description>It&apos;s been almost a month since I announced ImageWind.net, my current personal Silverlight project. I&apos;ve really been enjoying working on Image Wind over the...</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Thinking Outside the Box - Using Programatic Animations in Silverlight</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/thinking-outside-box-using-programatic-animations-silverlight/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/thinking-outside-box-using-programatic-animations-silverlight/</guid><description>At the Atlanta Silverlight Firestarter a few months ago myself and Mason Brown did a talk &apos;Lighting Up the UI&apos;. At the end of the talk I ranted a bit trying to...</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tracking Events in Silverlight with Google Analytics</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/tracking-events-silverlight-google-analytics/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/tracking-events-silverlight-google-analytics/</guid><description>One of the things I wanted in ImageWind.Net before releasing it in beta was some basic analytics baked in. I wanted to try and use Google Analytics and I...</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Announcing ImageWind.Net - Now in Public Beta</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/announcing-imagewindnet-now-public-beta/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/announcing-imagewindnet-now-public-beta/</guid><description>I&apos;m very happy to say that tonight I&apos;m making public my current side project, ImageWind.Net. ImageWind.Net is written in Silverlight 3, and is a real-time...</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Matchingo Facebook Port Now on CodePlex</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/matchingo-facebook-port-now-codeplex/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/matchingo-facebook-port-now-codeplex/</guid><description>The Facebook port of Matchingo has now been committed to the repository on CodePlex. A zipped download of the release is available as well.</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Matchingo Ported to Facebook</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/matchingo-ported-facebook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/matchingo-ported-facebook/</guid><description>Matchingo (which was released almost 5 months ago - gasp!) has now been ported to Facebook! Michael Urvan, a member of the Atlanta Silverlight Meetup, took the...</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Upcoming Atlanta Silverlight Firestarter and SilverlightAtlanta.net</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/upcoming-atlanta-silverlight-firestarter-and-silverlightatlantanet/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/upcoming-atlanta-silverlight-firestarter-and-silverlightatlantanet/</guid><description>I&apos;m very happy to say that I will be presenting at an upcoming Atlanta Silverlight Firestarter on August 22nd in Atlanta at Microsoft&apos;s office. The event is...</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Consolidate Your Visual Studio Tabs with Tabs Studio</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/consolidate-your-visual-studio-tabs-tabs-studio/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/consolidate-your-visual-studio-tabs-tabs-studio/</guid><description>Recently I was talking to a friend about Visual Studio 2010 - specifically about changes we were hoping to see. He had brought up how annoying it was to only...</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Get and Put Pixel in Silverlight 3 with WriteableBitmap</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/get-and-put-pixel-silverlight-3-writeablebitmap/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/get-and-put-pixel-silverlight-3-writeablebitmap/</guid><description>In my last blog entry I talked about how the new Bitmap API in Silverlight 3 gives you the ability to render controls to a WriteableBitmap, I also mentioned...</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rendering Text to a WriteableBitmap with Silverlight 3&apos;s Bitmap API</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/rendering-text-writeablebitmap-silverlight-3s-bitmap-api/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/rendering-text-writeablebitmap-silverlight-3s-bitmap-api/</guid><description>One of the new features in Silverlight 3 (released on Friday) is the Bitmap API which provides the ability to render UIElements to a bitmap and provides direct...</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>IPhone Style Drag and Push Panel in Silverlight</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/iphone-style-drag-and-push-panel-silverlight/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/iphone-style-drag-and-push-panel-silverlight/</guid><description>I&apos;ve been doing a bit of work at the new job on some custom panels relative to our project. In doing the work we have been talking a lot about the iPhone&apos;s...</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Little Bit About the New Silverlight Gig</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/little-bit-about-new-silverlight-gig/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/little-bit-about-new-silverlight-gig/</guid><description>This was my first week at a new gig as a full time Silverlight developer. I&apos;m still getting into the flow of a totally new job, but this first week has been...</description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The End of Another Chapter..</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/end-another-chapter/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/end-another-chapter/</guid><description>Today is my last day at my current job - it is the end of another chapter of my career. I don&apos;t want to overstate the significance of this job, but I must...</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Immediacy of Now - Why I&apos;m Switching Focus to Silverlight</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/immediacy-now-why-im-switching-focus-silverlight/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/immediacy-now-why-im-switching-focus-silverlight/</guid><description>For those that don&apos;t know, I have been a Winforms dev since about 2001. Before that time I was just as interested in graphics and usability as I was in coding...</description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>My First Silverlight Tutorial is Up on Silverzine.com</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/my-first-silverlight-tutorial-silverzinecom/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/my-first-silverlight-tutorial-silverzinecom/</guid><description>For those who aren&apos;t aware, a great resource for Silverlight designers launched a few weeks ago named Silverzine. It already has several tutorials worth...</description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Initial Code Drop of Matchingo Now Available</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/initial-code-drop-matchingo-now-available/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/initial-code-drop-matchingo-now-available/</guid><description>The initial code drop of Matchingo is now available on CodePlex at matchingo.codeplex.com. This release contains the same functionality set as is currently...</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Matchingo Makes the Sweet 16 in Microsoft&apos;s Silverlight Game Contest</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/matchingo-makes-sweet-16-microsofts-silverlight-game-contest/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/matchingo-makes-sweet-16-microsofts-silverlight-game-contest/</guid><description>I&apos;m very proud to say that Matchingo is one of the 16 finalists in Microsoft&apos;s Server Quest Contest. You can go there now to vote on your favorite entries -...</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Announcing Matchingo.com - An Open Source Silverlight Memory Game</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/announcing-matchingocom-open-source-silverlight-memory-game/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/announcing-matchingocom-open-source-silverlight-memory-game/</guid><description>I am very pleased to announce the launch of Matchingo.com. Matchingo.com is the main hosting page for my new game Matchingo - a Silverlight implementation of a...</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Announcement Coming Next Week</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/announcement-coming-next-week/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/announcement-coming-next-week/</guid><description>For those who are concerned, I have not fallen off the map - in fact I&apos;ve been busting butt the last 2-3 months on a project which I will be announcing...</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Decent WPF StatusBar Example</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/decent-wpf-statusbar-example/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/decent-wpf-statusbar-example/</guid><description>A simple, but hopefully decent, StatusBar example in WPF/XAML Searching for information on new(er) technology can be pretty interesting. Sometimes you can find...</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>WPF Resource Monitor XAML Mockup</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/wpf-resource-monitor-xaml-mockup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/wpf-resource-monitor-xaml-mockup/</guid><description>Every once in a while I&apos;ll get an idea for something I wish I had time to create. Today I did some searches for a resource monitor for my home server. I didn&apos;t...</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Getting Started With WPF</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/getting-started-wpf/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/getting-started-wpf/</guid><description>I wrote the following blog entry for my company&apos;s intranet a few months back and had been meaning to share it publicly. Hopefully it will be of use to people...</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>An Odd Error With CompositeWPF and Other Embedded Controls</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/odd-error-compositewpf-and-other-embedded-controls/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/odd-error-compositewpf-and-other-embedded-controls/</guid><description>I just spent a few minutes trying to figure out an odd error I was having in trying to add Kevin&apos;s WPF Bag-o-Tricks to my MemoryGame project. Apparently if you...</description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Sneak Peak of My Memory Game Project</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/sneak-peak-my-memory-game-project/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/sneak-peak-my-memory-game-project/</guid><description>I am slowly but surely working on a new project called Memory Game. It is an attempt to create something utilizing a bunch of the newest .Net technologies...</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Fancy Diamond Pattern Tiled Background in WPF</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/fancy-diamond-pattern-tiled-background-wpf/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/fancy-diamond-pattern-tiled-background-wpf/</guid><description>So I am working on a little side project - which hopefully I&apos;ll present in the coming month - and I wanted to make my window fill something more fancy than a...</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>WPF Friendly Frameworks and Design Patterns</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/wpf-friendly-frameworks-and-design-patterns/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/wpf-friendly-frameworks-and-design-patterns/</guid><description>Since I last posted I have still been relatively hard at work learning a variety of things. One thing which I have noticed recently is that once you get a...</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Old School Fire Algorithm in Modern Day WPF</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/old-school-fire-algorithm-modern-day-wpf/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/old-school-fire-algorithm-modern-day-wpf/</guid><description>A month or so ago before I got too far into my WPF research I wanted to figure out how the performance of WPF compared to - say a 486DX 33mhz from 12-13 years...</description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Simple UI Example Numero Uno</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/simple-ui-example-numero-uno/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/simple-ui-example-numero-uno/</guid><description>A few weeks ago I mocked up a UI and tried to create it. I got it pretty far but put it aside after one night and thought I had lost my work. Tonight I found...</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Another WPF Grab Bag</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/another-wpf-grab-bag/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/another-wpf-grab-bag/</guid><description>I&apos;m still playing with WPF pretty routinely. I haven&apos;t posted much because I&apos;m enjoying learning and playing more than writing about it, and honestly there is...</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blend Gets 3rd Party Intellisense and Kaxaml Gets an Update</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/blend-gets-3rd-party-intellisense-and-kaxaml-gets-update/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/blend-gets-3rd-party-intellisense-and-kaxaml-gets-update/</guid><description>If you&apos;ve been following Nerd Plus Art (which you should be doing) you&apos;ll notice a few recent blog posts of interest. First off, intellisense can now be had in...</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Recreating Simple Windows Forms in WPF and XAML (Part 4)</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/recreating-simple-windows-forms-wpf-and-xaml-part-4/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/recreating-simple-windows-forms-wpf-and-xaml-part-4/</guid><description>Last time we covered breaking our theming out into an external file, and how to style all instances of a given UI element. We left off needing to know the...</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>WPF Link Grab Bag</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/wpf-link-grab-bag/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/wpf-link-grab-bag/</guid><description>So I&apos;ve been under the weather (or at least that is one of my excuses), so I don&apos;t have the next part of my WPF series ready to post yet, but I do have a...</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Recreating Simple Windows Forms in WPF and XAML (Part 2)</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/recreating-simple-windows-forms-wpf-and-xaml-part-2/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/recreating-simple-windows-forms-wpf-and-xaml-part-2/</guid><description>One of the more obvious issues with the initial post of the dialog XAML code last night was all the hardcoded colors, so this post will be a quick example of...</description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Recreating Simple Windows Forms in WPF and XAML (Part 3)</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/recreating-simple-windows-forms-wpf-and-xaml-part-3/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/recreating-simple-windows-forms-wpf-and-xaml-part-3/</guid><description>Last time we covered how to break out colors from our XAML dialog into separate color definitions in the Page.Resources section of our XAML. After doing this...</description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Recreating Simple Windows Forms in WPF and XAML (Part 1)</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/recreating-simple-windows-forms-wpf-and-xaml-part-1/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/recreating-simple-windows-forms-wpf-and-xaml-part-1/</guid><description>So after two or three weeks of playing around with WPF/XAML I figured the best place to go next was to try and do some dialogs like I might do today in Windows...</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The WPF Journey - Beginning Baby Steps</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/wpf-journey-beginning-baby-steps/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/wpf-journey-beginning-baby-steps/</guid><description>About a year and a half ago I picked up a copy of Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed based on a suggestion from a Microsoft rep at a mini code camp they...</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hello World</title><link>https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/hello-world/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smartypantscoding.com/blog/hello-world/</guid><description>What&apos;s wrong, title too trite? Maybe I should&apos;ve gone with &quot;first!&quot; instead? You&apos;ve found the first post on the site, so make yourself useful and checkout the...</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>