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A phenomenon described by the term ‘webkit monoculture’ is causing quite some concern in the web development community. A lot of web developers are basically coding for webkit and webkit only, or more specifically Safari on IOS. HTML5 and standards are great, but certain parts of the web development ...

This may be the most cryptic acronym-laden title I ever used for a blog post, but it quite exactly describes what I was trying to do yesterday. The Visual Studio 2012 CTP4 makes it possible to write real Windows Phone 8 unit tests that run in the Visual Studio Unit Test runner (in stead of only on  ...

Having worked in Geographical Information Systems over 20 years, I can tell you rightfully the new Windows Phone 8 mapping and location abilities are more than enough to make a map maniac like me getting twinkly eyes. It has capabilities that are unheard of even just a couple of years ago – and I do ...

Brazil, a strong developing economy, is the largest country is South America, and has the biggest population of South America as well. From a game developer’s standpoint, it’s unfortunately also one of the ‘restricted’ countries. In short, this means you cannot submit a game – any game to the Brazil ...

For those who have missed it – besides all the things I do on Windows Phone and Windows 8 I actually have a job, and in that job I am currently doing a lot of HTML5/Javascript development – now focusing on a Single Page App using (amongst others) Knockout.js and JQuery Mobile. For those who don’t kn ...

For my Windows Phone 8 game “Pull the Rope” I wrote a utility class to make pairing phones and obtaining a  two-way communication channel a little bit easier. I already dabbled into this while developing the game, but now I feel it’s time to show a more comprehensive solution. I re-use the Navi ...

In my never-ending quest to preach the gospel of MVVM in general and MVVMLight in particular as the way to make a structured Windows Phone application I show a little part of my my newest Windows Phone app, “Pull the Rope”. It’s a basically a rope pulling contest played on two phones. I think it’s q ...

As regular readers of this blog know, I am currently playing around with NFC on Windows Phone 8. I peeked a little in the Bluetooth app to app sample at MSDN to understand how to find a ‘peer’. A peer is defined as the same app, installed on a different phone. So basically you go around installing t ...

Currently I am working on a Windows Phone 8 action game in which you can fight a kind of duel. This involves paring the phones via NFC and then obtaining a socket trough which the phones can exchange game information. Liking to steal from examples myself (why do you think I name my blog this way, eh ...

This week my fellow MVP Scott Lovegrove contacted me and asked if and how he could pass the result of an event to my WinRT EventToCommandBehavior and/or EventToBoundCommandBehavior. I replied this was currently not supported, but that would not be hard to make. He acknowledged that, and asked if he  ...