Monthly Archives: March 2010

No IE6 ActionFilter for ASP.NET MVC

*** Update ***: I’ve also created a cheap jQuery plugin for this as well. See the bottom of the post There’s a lot of talk on Twitter today about IE6. I’m building a web application in my free time and I didn’t want to support IE6. Will I lose users? Yes, a few, but I…

TekPub: Introduction to Android Series

Want to learn Android? Don’t have time to read a book? TekPub.com has released a new series, produced by yours truly: In this series I will be building the TekPub Android application. During the course of the series you’ll be introduced to Android, the Eclipse IDE, developing with the Android Framework, Java and I’ll also…

WP7 Emulator Screen Size Management

I’ve been developing Android apps for awhile now and at times the emulators are SOOO big that they litterally consume the entire screen real estate and its very difficult to navigate through the enumlator. I was very surprised when I started up the WP7 emulator and started finding out how simple it was to scale…

WP7 Boot to VHD

Tonigt I downloaded the WP7 Developer Tools on a new VHD (Boot to VHD). I’d I’d have to say … its super easy. File –> New As soon as the tools are installed you can select File –> New Windows Phone Application, as seen below: Selecting a new Phone app, I was able to get…

ASP.NET MVC REST API WINDSOR CONTROLLER FACTORY

I’m using the ASP.NET MVC REST Toolkit for a REST API I’m building for a mobile infrastructure. Long story short, it will be responsible for service hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of users through their mobile phones and rich applications (Android, iPhone and eventually the WP7 Phones). The one thing that the Toolkit did…