Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Superior Tools, Superior Platform

It was quite interesting reading about Jamie Murai’s struggle to install the Blackberry Playbook development tools, here, and after his story went viral, his update here.  It reminds me for all the world of what happened with Palm’s swan song … Continue reading

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90% Crap in the WP7 App Store? Probably.

 Paul Thurott recently wrote about an iPhone developer, Justin Williams, who had positive things to say about Windows Phone 7, here.  The gentleman in question said, however, that there were “…5000 apps, but 4990 of them are junk.”  This may be so.  But … Continue reading

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The Fraction Calculator App

The very next of my three apps for Windows Phone 7 is my Fraction Calculator. It adds, subtracts, divides and multiplies fractions. Fraction arithmetic is the bane of schoolchildren and college students alike. FractionCalc is the solution! I’ve posted a … Continue reading

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Fractional Thinking

My Conversion app for Windows Phone 7 is going to have a couple of components for fraction arithmetic — it’s a “conversion”, with one panel converting back and forth between a decimal and a fraction (and vice versa).  You know, what … Continue reading

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Facebook Warning

To those of my readers who might be on Facebook, Greetings!   Just thought I would pass along some of my concerns about how we all might be using Facebook, and if you weren’t already aware of FB;’s privacy problems, to make … Continue reading

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Getting Started…

There comes a time in the life of every project when you have to shoot the engineers and put the damn’ thing in production! Continue reading

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