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  • I May Be Late Windows Phone 7 app

    Work is progressing nicely with my first Windows Phone 7 app. This app is a companion to my new London Underground related application, www.imaybelate.com, which I’m hoping to launch in the next week or two. Here are some screenshots of the app that I took yesterday.   Technical Bits I’m using the Sync Framework 4.0…

  • UnauthorizedAccessException when adding WebBrowser to WP7

    As part of my project to build a Windows Phone 7 client for www.imaybelate.com, I require a WebBrowser component so that I can process the OpenId login requests that my application supports. After adding the WebBrowser to the XAML, I started getting this exception when I navigated to the page.   Expanding the exception’s details…

  • Some screenshots of my upcoming WP7 App

    Here are some initial screenshots of my upcoming Windows Phone 7 app…

  • Moving to Windows Phone 7 from iOS–and back again!

    I’ve been using a Windows Phone 7 Samsung Omnia 7 since the beginning of October. Today, I’m back using my iPhone 4, but the experience has let me to an interesting conclusion: WP7 is a superior OS compared to the aging iOS. However, the iPhone 4 handset is far, far superior to the Samsung Omnia…

  • My GiveCampUK weekend (21st to 23rd October, 2011)

    Across the weekend of the 21st of October, I took part in the UK’s first GiveCamp. And what a weekend it was!     I signed up to participate it a few months back thinking it would be a good way to network, make some new friends and help somebody else out. I honestly wasn’t…

  • Moving to Windows Phone 7 from iOS–Week 1

    I’ve been using the Windows Phone 7 Omnia 7 for about a week now and it has really been a strange ride. I have been an iPhone user since the release of the iPhone 3G in 2008 and overall, I’ve been very happy with the iPhone. As I’ve outlined in a previous post, there are…

  • Moving to Windows Phone 7 from iOS–Day 1

    With Apple’s announcement of the iPhone 4S, I skipped my annual early morning efforts of pre-ordering the new handset. For the first time in three years, I wasn’t giving Apple more money! You see, two weeks ago, I picked up a Samsung Omnia 7, Windows Phone 7 handset for development purposes. I decided that since…

  • Apple, please stop talking utter BOLL&*KS

    Anyone following the Apple announcement yesterday, should have been dismayed by Apple’s on-going, incredibly stupid  use of percentages to drive home how good they are. When comparing Lion’s adoption rate, they threw up this slide. Seriously? How can anyone fall for this shite? A simple search on Bing will reveal figures that put this comparison…

  • What I’d like to see from the iPhone 5

    This evening, UK time, Apple is expected to unveil its latest addition to the iPhone family, the iPhone 5. I’ve been an Apple iPhone user since 2008, when they released the iPhone 3G. I’ve owned the 3GS too and am currently using the iPhone 4. Whilst I’m not planning to purchase an iPhone 5, there…

  • With Microsoft, you can only live in one place. Ever!

    Last Thursday, my latest purchase arrived via courier from Expansys: A Samsung Omnia 7 Windows Phone 7! I was quite excited to get my hands on this as it would be the second Windows Phone I’ve seen. I quickly set it up and played around with it for a few minutes. Overall I was very…

  • Upgrading to Lion hasn’t been good for the Mac App Store…

    So this is the “worlds most advanced operating system” is it? I’ve upgraded Windows and never had issues like! Time for a full rebuild I think ;(

  • Bye, bye finance. Hello telecoms!

    As any of my twitter followers could tell you, I’m in my last week of employment at Barclays Capital, here in London. I’ve been working as a developer in the Market Risk IT department for over four years, a personal record for me. It’s not a bad job, the pay is excellent along with good…