This is the second part in the mini series that is taking us through the steps of setting up push notifications for your windows phone 7 app. Posts in the series: Code on the device – This will handle everything you need to put into your wp7 app Code on the server – This will [...]

This tutorial mini series will take us through the steps of setting up push notifications for your windows phone 7 app. Posts in the series: Code on the device – This will handle everything you need to put into your wp7 app Code on the server – This will handle receiving and storing your user’s [...]

Torrential version 1.2.0 has just hit the marketplace, so here’s a quick wrap up of the brand new features you get to play with. Add Torrents from the Web Browser You can now use your favourite torrent web site to add torrents via Torrential. Simply click the add torrent button and you’re away!   See [...]

Torrential has finally hit the marketplace and promises to be the best torrent app for windows phone 7 yet! Not only can you manage your torrents on the go, but you can also search Isohunt directly from within the app, and even receive push notifications when your downloads are complete without installing any extra software. [...]

After a frantic few weeks and very little sleep my newest creation has finally been submitted to the Windows Phone 7 marketplace. Some of you may remember the exciting day when I declared myself to be an Android Developer, however since then I’ve been left with only a shell of an application and not a [...]

Quickly and simply validate your credit card fields by adding this attribute to your POCO model class.

If you need to split a string using a delimiter in SQL, but want certain sections wrapped in quotes to ignore the delimiter, fear not, as I have a quick and easy answer. Here’s how you use it: In SQL: SELECT * FROM dbo.SplitQuoteSafe(‘"Test","Stuff, that, has commas","ok",24.45,,yes’, ‘,’) In Linq: var words = from w [...]

Upgraded by popular demand, the jQax ajax wrapper has been turned into a full fledged jQuery plugin, conforming to the plugin authoring guidelines and compatible with compression. Rain sweet code down on me: Below is the full code as of writing, if you’re interested in helping out, the source can also be found here on [...]

Implementing an endless scroller in Android was not actually that difficult. Here’s a quick code snippet and explanation to get you on your way. Just give me the code! Well here you go: public class EndlessScrollListener implements OnScrollListener { private int visibleThreshold = 5; private int currentPage = 0; private int previousTotal = 0; private [...]

I’ve recently discovered a great new tool for MVC 2 that lets you create generic modular controls that can be shared with and used by anyone. So I built a paging control. Now you get a free Pager control AND learn how to build your own html helper. Amazing. If you just want the pager [...]