Damian Mehers’ blog

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Chrync syncs your Chrome bookmarks, recently viewed pages and open tabs down to your Windows Phone.

I’ll not be giving up my day job, but it was fun doing these interviews … http://youtu.be/Ro2N0AdlqqI?

I wrote this article for the Evernote Tech Blog last month, summarizing my experience developing the Windows Phone Evernote client: http://blog.evernote.com/tech/2011/06/28/look-behind-evernote-wp7/

I have an HTC Incredible S, and it’s a very nice phone indeed.

A couple of weeks ago I tried to get my HTC Incredible S, running Gingerbread to connect via VPN to my Windows 7 box.

Behaviors are a great way to encapsulate functionality that can be used in a drag-and-drop environment such as Expression Blend.

Colin Eberhardt at ScottLogic has been doing some excellent work showing how we can make our own UIs animate in a fluid manner similar to the built in Microsoft UIs on Windows Phone.

So you think you’ve finished implementing that new Windows Phone 7 page?

The Microsoft audio recording example shows how to record audio, but it just gets a PCM encoded stream of samples – if you want to send this audio stream off somewhere else, to be played later, it needs a proper header.

For my textboxes I’ve been using a modified version Johan Danforth’s Watermark behaviour (binding the watermark text to a ViewModel property instead of hardcoding the text), but when I needed to do something similar for a PasswordBox I thought I was stuck.

Putting the user back to the correct pivot item when they return to a tombestoned application whose last visited page contained a Pivot is pretty easy, but ensuring that they are put back to the right scroll position if they’ve scrolled down a list isn’t…

Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development.

I bought an HTC Desire Android mobile phone a couple of months ago.

You can now: Limit the synchronization size (in terms of note size, or last modification) Choose which notebooks to display Choose to download notes whose contents were not synchronized Sort notes by Title, Size, Last Update, Creation date Choose into whi…

Click here to take survey to help me decide whether to create a new release of MceFM.

With what I think is stunning timing, just as Microsoft announced they are taking their mobile development in a different direction with Windows Phone 7, I’ve just released a new Windows Mobile product I’ve created called Ploze, which works with an existi…

Having told my wife that I definitely did not want an Amazon Kindle E-Reader for Christmas, I found myself with a substantial Amazon.com gift voucher, and decided to splurge.

We are searching for a senior .NET developer with strong business skills to join our team at Cargill Geneva.

Did you know there is a way to invoke simple Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Services from Excel VBA without installing anything other than the .NET Framework on the Excel machine?

Since I started programming in the early eighties I’ve dreamed of ideas for software tools, utilities and products.

I've just set up a Windows Home Server on my home network, and so far I think it is fantastic.

I started working for Cargill Energy at the beginning of 2009, and almost immediately decided to cycle the 23 km (14 miles) each way.

This 40 minute screencast covers unit testing, mocking, dependency injection, and inversion of control.

I recently gave a presentation at work introducing some of the new features of VS 2008 and .NET 3.5.

Like a lot of people, when I first began developing on a "proper" Operating System (as opposed to the 8 bit computers I started with), sooner or later I convinced myself I'd found a bug in the operating system.

I've created a small simple utility to create an HTML summary document listing all the movies I've recorded using Vista Media Center.

If you get the above error when trying to add a WCF service reference that you have previously deleted then try: deleting the Service References.DeviceService.Reference.cs.dll file you'll find under obj\Debug\TempPE. deleting the service folder you'll sti…

Having come third in the first event "Show Off" entry, for PDC 2005, I decided to submit an entry for the 2008 PDC.

I just attended the Microsoft PDC in LA.

All the documentation says to press two-fingers and click, but actually you must press down three fingers and then click to right-click when running Vista, Boot Camped on the new MacBook Pros (late 2008).

[Edited 23rd Oct to compress returned JavaScript] I recently wrote a blog post showing how you can use controls from the AJAX Control Toolkit in ASP.NET MVC applications, specifically the ListSearchExtender.

I am trying out Moq, having used RhinoMocks a fair bit in the past.

Download it here: http://www.beebmc.com/ Fixes a bug reported by a couple of people where although it launched properly, it would not play music.

A couple of years ago I posted a small blog entry on a throwaway tool that I had created that uses the Debug API to log all JavaScript that Internet Explorer executes.

There are a whole range of useful AJAX behaviors available in the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, and it would be cool to be able to use them from ASP.NET MVC.

A couple of days ago I decided to move this blog from being hosted at Wordpress,com, to an account I have at Webhost4life.

Z-Wave is a home automation technology which uses a mesh network to allow devices to talk to each other.

I've been looking into getting BeebMC to run on the 64 bit version of Vista.

I've just released BeebMC version 2.1.

In BeebMC when you select a channel, you are presented with the list of programs available to "Listen Again".

I've just released a new version of BeebMC, adding support for "Listen Again": If/when the BBC update their web site or RSS feeds then BeebMC will probably break -- leave a comment and I'll do what I can to fix it.

I've had some demand for the source for my simple application that plays BBC Radio inside Media Center.

I've developed a small BBC Radio Media Center addin mainly for my own use, which I'm making available here for free for anyone else that wants it.

In this post I'll show how you can inject your own .NET code into a process that is already running the .NET framework.

Windows Media Center (MCE) lets you create addins to provide new functionality.

Last year Microsoft announced the 2007 Professional Developers Conference (PDC) and I immediately booked the flights and hotel.

I'm finally feeling as though I am getting very close to the first non-beta release of MceFM.