The Windows Phone "Great Canadian Apportunity” Contest has been running since February 1st 2011. This contest is a Battle of Canadian Developers to make a Great Windows Phone 7 Application or Game. If you didn’t know about this contest you have 6 weeks left to Register, Submit Your Idea, Develop your Application [Learning Resources], and Submit your App. Here’s a little Secret If you look at how the applications are being judged there is one section that not many applicants have picked...
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Wednesday, 1 December 2010 16:36 by
SyntaxC4
On December 4th [8:45-6:00pm], join @OpenGuelph and @OpenHalton at the Campus in Microsoft Mississauga 1950 Meadowvale Blvd. Mississauga, Ontario] for International Open Data Hackathon Day. Register for the event soon, as our sponsors Port25.ca will be providing transportation to (and from) the Event if you live in Guelph. For more information on the happenings at the OpenGuelph/OpenHalton Hackathon visit the wiki page. Oh, I almost forgot to mention. To keep people motivated, fed and well ex...
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Tuesday, 16 November 2010 17:46 by
SyntaxC4
Tonight I went off to the very first Windows Phone 7 User Group meeting in Toronto, Ontario. There were a number of Rock Star presenters, including Joey DeVilla, Mark Arteaga, Anthony “The Mobile Situation” Bartolo, Mike Temporale; showing off the Features and Experience of the Phone, as well as a number of different apps. While sitting in the Audience I worked away on a presentation that I’m going to be doing on XNA Game Programming on the Windows Phone. Which includes a demo of building a gam...
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Tuesday, 9 November 2010 08:38 by
SyntaxC4
The first Iteration of the Polymorphic Podcast Application for Windows Phone 7 is now available in the Zune Marketplace! You can Download the Polymorphic Podcast Application for Windows Phone 7 by clicking on the metro download image below.
You will need to Download the Zune Software in order to view the Marketplace listing, or to install the application to your phone. After accepting the security message you will be redirected to the application in the Zune Software. You will be pleasantly s...
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Saturday, 6 November 2010 15:53 by
SyntaxC4
Only a few weeks ago I let the cat out of the bag that I was building a Polymorphic Podcast Streaming App for Windows Phone 7. I couldn’t believe how quickly the Application came together, with a POC put together in only 2 hours. This is a fairly simple application built in Silverlight with VS2010 and Expression Blend and a touch of XNA. A good friend of mine Barranger Ridler [@4MKMobile], blogged a great write up on how to use the XNA Framework to Stream Audio on Windows Phone 7 which definite...
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