My wife and good friend have a G1 and I’m absolutely in love with the damn thing. I plan on getting one soon, however I’ve read a lot and some people are saying to wait for the MyTouch. However, this does not prevent me from getting my hands dirty with some Android development. Since I’m a .NET guy I thought it would be fun to see what the experience would be like to develop a simple app. A few things that I wanted accomplish during this little project:   Use Eclipse Use the ADT for Eclipse Test with an Emulator (Android SDK provides one for free, emulator.exe) Use the...
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I’ve death with numerous different advertisers and such over the few years I’ve had my blog. Just recently I spoke with the guys over at the Lounge and we decided to work together. I needed a low maintenance advertising system that could help with the monthly costs of the blog, they needed another person to join their Small Publishers network (because lets face it… I’m no hanselborg, yet).  Therefore we decided to join up and make the Lounge my exclusive graphical advertiser. From the famous words of SLC Punk. “I didn’t sell out, son. I bought in.” I personally feel...
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I have another DimeCast that went live this morning. This one is entitled “Exploring Expressions with Spark.”. Here’s what we cover: ”We are going to take a look at the various different ways you can use Expressions with the Spark View engine. We are going to review simply scenarios such as math based expressions and move up to looking at nested if-then-else statements.” Click here to watch the...
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I was recently was helping out a collague with an ASP.NET MVC problem and I was given a link to a solution. I opened it and got this message: Which ends up giving you the following in the solution explorer. The reason I’m getting this is because I never installed the ASP.NET MVC bits, well, actually that’s a lie. I have them, but I never installed the full ASP.NET MVC package. I unzipped the MSI with the following command prompt: #> msiexec –a PathToMsi.msi This will drop the MSI contents your output to your C:\ drive. Here’s the help window for the msiexec (app click...
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I have a new DimeCast up! The title is above. In this DimeCast I cover …  how to utilize both global variables and local variables. We will also take a look at how to create and use both strongly typed viewdata and weakly typed view data. To view the episode, click here....
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