Earlier today I received an email informing me that I have been awarded a CodeProject MVP for the year 2013. I am very grateful to CodeProject for this award – it is a very popular website for developers, with around 10 million members, and thousands of authors. It is an honour to be among the company of the ~30 other MVPs.

This year I have contributed five articles to Codeproject:

• KnockoutJS vs. Silverlight – An article that helps people transition from Silverlight to Knockout and JavaScript.
• Plotting Circular Relationship Graphs with Silverlight – An article that I wrote on my travels to Denmark, a bit of fun with data visualisation.
• A Gesture-Driven Windows Phone To-Do List – which describes how to create a to-do list application which is controlled via multi-touch gestures. This article won the “Best Mobile article of July 2012″ award.
• Property Finder – a Cross-Platform HTML5 Mobile App – which was an article about the use of HTML5 for cross-platform development, this was the ‘seed’ for the PropertyCross project
• Clearer – A Gesture-Driven Windows 8 To-Do Application – which was basically my attempt to win an Ultrabook by re-hashing my earlier Windows Phone article … which worked

That’s one more article than I contributed the previous year!

Over the past year my development interests have diversified, in 2011 I was mainly focused on WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone. I now find myself spending just as much time on JavaScript and iOS – neither of which are really the core focus for CodeProject. I will probably be writing for Ray Wenderlich’s iOS site just as much as CodeProject throughout 2013, however, I doubt I will ever give up on CodeProject. It has such a lively community, attracts some of the best technical authors, and provides them with a great environment to work within.

Regards, Colin E.

Yesterday I published a new article on CodePrioject:

• Property Finder – a Cross-Platform Xamarin MonoTouch Mobile App

This article looks at how you can write a cross-platform mobile application with a shared C# code base using Xamarin MonoTouch. The application that is described in the article, a property finder, is exactly the same one that I wrote using HTML5 a few months earlier. This most recent article provides an interesting comparison of the two different techniques.

I actually wrote most of this article about two months ago, it was at this point I decided to embark on PropertyCross, which provides a comparison of a wide range of cross-platform frameworks.

After finishing PropertyCross I decided that the original article was still worth publishing, it provides a lot of technical detail on how to code share with Xamarin specifically.

So, why not pop over to CodeProject and check it out?

Regards, Colin E.