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I’m doing the BUILD HIVE 2011 conference combo

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Adam Kinney

I’ve been looking forward to the BUILD conference since it was announced.  Seeing the Windows 8 demo, with its fancy new Metro evolved look and the fact that new development technologies are on the horizon, makes me feel giddy at the … Continue reading →

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Check if your WP7 app is a Bing Instant Answer

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Adam Kinney

After reading through all of the Windows Phone 7 “Mango” documentation, this is one tip that stuck out as a simple but nice feature that I haven’t seen mentioned much. Search on Windows Phone 7 “Mango” has been upgraded to include … Continue reading →

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Building a Windows Phone 7 game at the Kinect Code Camp

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Adam Kinney

This week I had the unique opportunity to take part in the Kinect Code Camp, a quiet event starting 24 hours before the public launch of the Kinect SDK. From the beginning there was a great vibe going on provided … Continue reading →

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The Book of CSS3 – take me to the future! …which is right now

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Adam Kinney

The Book of CSS3, from Peter Gasston, is your ticket from understanding the long-lived CSS2.1 to the new world full of possibilities with CSS3. Yes, there are issues understanding which features of CSS3 have been properly recommended and are currently … Continue reading →

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Flipping Eye Apps on Windows Phone 7

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Adam Kinney

I wanted to see what would happen if all of the apps on the Windows Phone 7 Start screen received a tile notification, causing the flip feature to activate, at the same time. It’s actually pretty flippy.

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A note to my wife about iOS5

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Adam Kinney

I didn’t plan on sharing this email with the public, but I thought it may be useful for others. My wife is pretty computer savvy but she’s not a developer or a tech geek, so I translated a bit of the marketing … Continue reading →

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Metro List View double line (ep. 2) – from PSD to HTML

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Adam Kinney

I mentioned I was going to shelve this project for now, but I started thinking about implmenting the same style and layout in HTML. “Metro in HTML?!” Yes, I said it.  And its really not too far of stretch, especially … Continue reading →

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Metro List View double line – from PSD to Silverlight

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Adam Kinney

I was recently working on a Windows Phone 7 application where one of the goals was to be very true to the Metro design guidelines. Like many applications we were using the trusty ListBox to show items with titles and … Continue reading →

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Grid by Example – WP7 design

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Adam Kinney

I opened a PSD file today which contained a WP7 panorama design and this is what I saw: Metro, the design language for Windows Phone 7 is all about the grid.  At least that’s where you start; then you break … Continue reading →

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Throwing Stars – a new HTML5 game

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Adam Kinney

Throwing Stars is a new HTML5 game where the goal is to throw a star across the sky and collect all of the sparkling tokens before you run out of stars. Of course it’d be too easy if there were just tokens … Continue reading →

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