TattooCoder

I've been working with Azure Mobile Services since it was released and until recently only the JavaScript backend was available, built using node.js.

Had a great time presenting Async Application Development and the Social Authentication options available in ASP.NET this week at DevIntersection.

Come out to DEVIntersection April 13-16 at the JW Marriott in Orlando to get a chance to interact with a number of community experts such as Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman, Douglas Crockford and many more.I'll be giving two talks in the ASP.NET track:AS12:

Had the first meeting of the year last night for the Orlando Windows Phone / Windows 8 Group and instead of going down the planned presenter lead meeting format it turned more into a "Town Hall" style with some good topics I thought I'd share.

I took a few moments to add custom URI launchers for my I'm Here app on Windows Phone so it could be used in Rob Irving's Car Dash app.

This year started off with a nice surprise, an email with the subject "Congratulations 2014 Microsoft MVP!"

Why Windows Phone?

Nokia, through its DVLUP program, is putting on DVLUP day in various cities from Nov. 16 - Dec 6.

In Part 1 I covered a simple implementation of the Authentication feature and portable class libraries from the Azure Mobile Services SDK.

Azure Mobile Services is undoubtedly one of the best platforms to emerge from the Azure group over the last year.

I have recently spent some time with Telerik's new product offering for cross mobile development called Icenium and I have to say it is quite nice.

I will admit that Regex and I do not speak anymore.

I will be giving two talks this Saturday at South Florida Code Camp, being held at Nova University in Ft.

From February 1 through June 2013, publish a new Windows 8 or Windows Phone app and enter my sweepstakes page to win up to $1000 in cash prizes.

Over the past month I have had the opportunity to give some thought to what I wanted to accomplish this year in my life, career, and health.

In the first part I covered how to get the initial project setup and share the ViewModels and ViewModelLocator between a Windows Phone 8 project and a Windows Store Application.

Portable Class Libraries Portable Class Libraries were added as a project type in the interest of creating an assembly that you could use across the .NET Framework, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, or Xbox 360 platforms without modifications.

CodeProjectOver the weekend I was able to release the first of many Windows 8 applications (Download and Rate here) into the store that I have been working on.

Developer Workshops Joe Healy (@devfish) and I have been hosting workshops at the Microsoft Store in Orlando at the Florida Mall over the past few Thursdays.

What's really "completely embarrassing" as he so states in his post is the lack of observation.

I will be giving two talks this Saturday at Tampa Code Camp, being held at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Fl.

What is TypeScript?

I will be giving two talks this Saturday at Richmond Code Camp, being held at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Va.

Introduction Telerik recently released their Windows 8 UI Controls to RC on September 18th (see post here), and this is probably on the first in a series of posts I will put out showing them off.

There are many user groups, meetups, developer groups, etc depending on where you live that are available to get involved in.

Find Amber Available for Windows Phone Find Amber has finally been approved and is now available in the Windows Phone Store!

CodeProject The SimpleIoc addition in the most recent version of MVVMLight is a great add and really simplified the ViewModelLocator across all of the platforms supported in this framework.

The mobile development industry has probably the greatest up swing in comparison to the other development paths over the last 5 years.

I will be giving two talks this Saturday at Southwest Florida Code Camp.

CodeProject As usual throughout the day I have MetroTwit open and toast are constantly popping up here and there and I glance over to see what’s what.

Now that Windows 8 and Visual Studio are in RTM I wanted to put together a quick entry for those Windows Phone developers making the transition to Windows 8 development with their MVVM Light skills.

Remember these guys?

So I spent last night leaping into the upgrade process on my MacBook Pro from Windows 7 to Windows 8 Pro.

This past Friday I attended a Windows Phone Developer event put on by Rich Dunbar, who is a Nokia Developer Ambassador, here in Orlando.

So here we are, the good stuff.

CodeProject In Part 1, we covered the following: Creating the application* Connecting the View and the View-Model* Adding an additional View or PagePart 2 we'll see how to add a button on the first page to navigate to the second page which will cover navi…

Orlando Windows Phone & Metro User Group Announces - Dark Sky API Developer App Contest!

CodeProject A few days ago, Rich Dunbar wrote a post about how to get started with with Windows Phone Development and the post went freaking viral.

](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Jy3jhSyRxC8/UAQk7AELoEI/AAAAAAAAAFs/05On55UJ26E/s1600/owpug-logo-new.png)Wow what a great start to the new group in Orlando!

Mary Jo Foley (@maryjofoley) tweeted that this article was depressing and I felt compelled to write an opinion.

So its been 2 full days with the Windows Phone, jumping out of the iOS world using the Nokia Lumia 900 as my everyday device.

](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tqE8VSJQiWs/T3-T5Bhc3KI/AAAAAAAAAD8/ynqmWp4PMHU/s1600/Nokia900.png)Nokia Lumia 900The newest Windows Phone 7 device has arrived and I have to say I can't put it down!

I recently attended Orlando Code Camp for the second straight year and I must say that it really topped last year and I cannot wait to see what's in store for next.