Jesse Liberty's podcast this time is with Jeremy Likness (see also Emil Stoychev's interview with Jeremy recorded during the MVP Summit).
Source: Jesse's Blog
Talking with Jeremy Lickness, Silverlight MVP, certified Silverlight Developer, Senior Consultant and PM for Wintellect and creator of the Sterling Database.
Jesse Liberty is starting a new series of mini-tutorials and related content on moving applications from Android to Windows Phone.
To get us started, let’s take a look at a simple Android application that takes an amount and computes the total with an 18% tip. We’ll then rebuild it in Windows Phone.
In this post, Jesse Liberty talks about testing for network availability and what to do when the network is not available.
We would like to live in a world in which any time you turn your phone on the network is there, full strength. We’d also like to live in a world of peace and harmony. Until all of this is accomplished, however, you will need to test for network availability and handle those unfortunate moments when the network is not available.
Jesse Liberty has posted on how to make the Silverlight Unit Tests work on Windows Phone.
The latest release of the Silverlight Unit Tests comes with the Silverlight Toolkit, and it targeted at Silverlight 4. Windows Phone is based on an enhanced version of Silverlight 3 and cannot use these DLLs. Fortunately, Jeff Willcox has made the right DLLs available on his web site.
In this podcast, Jesse Liberty talks to Paul Betts - the author and inventor of Reactive UI.
Paul Betts works in Office Labs at Microsoft and is the creator of Reactive UI – an MVVM framework based on Reactive Extensions.
In this podcast, Jesse Liberty has a nice chat with Walt Ritscher - MVP and author of the free Shazzam Shader Editor.
Walt is a .NET programmer and UX enthusiast. His current UI obsession includes Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 and WPF APIs. His blog can be found at blog.wpfwonderland.com.
Jesse Liberty continues his series of posts on Reactive Extensions by highlight the chaining aspect of the SelectMany operator.
In the previous posting on Reactive Extensions, we created an application that calls on the Bing translation service to translate a phrase into Japanese, and then back into English. This allowed the introduction of the SelectMany operator. In this posting we’ll ask the Bing Translation service for a list of every language it knows about, and then we’ll translate a phrase into each language in turn.
Jesse Liberty has another cool post for those of you who are interested in Reactive Programming.
One of the tried and true patterns in .NET programming is to call an Asynchronous service (e.g., BeginGetResponse) and to then provide a callback to a second method for when the call completes. This can get very complex very quickly if you have chained calls (call this, then when you finish, call that) Let’s take a look at how you can simplify such a call with Rx by examining making a HTTPWebRequest.
In the next post from his 'Windows Phone From Scratch' series, Jesse Liberty discusses how to overcome some limitations of Isolated Storage with the help of the Sterling Database.
When you wish to persist state across usages of your application, Isolated Storage allows you to write to the disk and stash away key-value pairs. For state, this is usually sufficient, but if what you wish to persist is data, especially relational data, then Isolated Storage is a bit limiting. To meet this need for a more robust data storage scheme, a number of libraries have been developed that work on top of isolated storage. This posting is the first in a series that will examine these options; beginning with the Sterling Database.
In this next podcast, Jesse Liberty is talking with Glenn Block about WCF, HTTP and much more.
Glenn is the Program Manager for the WCF Web APIs, former PM for MEF and generally brilliant.