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Skype Challenge - A Year On

Some you might recall that I issued a Skype Challenge last April where the rules were essentially: To go an entire month without using either a landline* or a mobile phone** to make or receive phone calls. You have to make all calls via Skype You can't accept calls, unless they come via Skype You...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 02-26-2008
Google Maps V's Live Search for Windows Mobile

A week or so ago I got my latest development device, the HTC TyTnII . Since then I have moved networks from Optus to 3 in order to get economically priced data. My only complaints about the HTC Touch was that it didn't have either a keypad/keyboard, nor HSDPA support*. Now that I have a data capable...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 11-10-2007
Sydney Mobility

Welcome to another action packed week of mobility here in (not so) sunny Sydney! On the back of a successful Office Developer Conference there are a series of events lined up for this week that are worth attending if you are working in the mobility area. By mobility I mean everything from being a developer...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 11-04-2007
SQL Server Compact Edition - Getting Started

Here are a couple of relatively intersting "getting started" links for SQL Server Compact Edition: Data Storage Architecture with SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition (draft) book - "Windows Mobile Data Synchronization with SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server Compact 3.1" by Rob Tiffany Chapters...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 10-08-2007
More Gadgets - Stop Drooling!

ASUS ASUS P55 Smartphone (Source: FCC) Information posted at DailyTech Intel Moorestown (Source: AnandTech) Information posted at AnandTech HTC HTC Nike (Source: Unwired View) Information posted at Unwired View HTC Omni (Source: Unwired View) Information posted at Unwired View HTC Shift (Source: HTC...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-20-2007
Why Google should stick to building websites!

Over the weekend I have been navigating around Sydney catching up with friends. Although I've been to Sydney quite a few times I still have to look up street addresses. So rather than purchasing a street directory I figured I would use some technology and try out Google maps. Now navigating any website...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-16-2007
Device How To Videos

A while ago I mentioned that MSDN has a series of "How Do I?" videos on a range of topics and that they have some relating to device application development . Last night someone reminded me about these and I went back to the site to discover a number of videos on some quite interesting, and...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-10-2007
NUnitLite V's Visual Studio Testing for Devices

Most .NET developers would have heard of, or have used, NUnit for unit testing code. Well, last week Charlie Poole made the first release of NUnitLite which is a cut down version that is compatible with not only the full .NET Framework but also all versions of the .NET Compact Framework. Neil has already...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 08-25-2007
HTC Touch In Action

A couple of weeks ago I posted about my latest device, the HTC Touch, in which I covered the unboxing and the general form factor of the device. Since then I have been using the device in place of my ever trustworthy K-Jam. Whilst I'm still not convinced that I can get away with not having a keyboard...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 08-25-2007
Linq Differences

This morning I was reading a blog post by Neil Cowburn , of OpenNETCF fame, that talked about the lack of support for Linq in the Outlook object model for the .NET Compact Framework/Windows Mobile. Having played around with Linq a while ago I was surprised that there was an issue with running a query...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 08-24-2007

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