Enhanced Windows Phone 8 Map Gestures
Colin Eberhardt, April 15th, 2013
TweetThis blog post describes the addition of a two-finger rotation and three-finger pitch gesture to the Windows Phone 8 Map control. You can see these gesture in action below: The WP8 release replaced the image-tile based Bing maps with a fully vector-rendered map from Nokia. Being vector-based, this map can be panned, zoomed, rotated and [...]
Comparing KendoUI and Knockout (with a bit of jQueryMobile on the side)
Colin Eberhardt, April 8th, 2013
TweetThis blog post compares the same twitter search application written with both Knockout and Kendo in order to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of each framework. Introduction I’ve always been a big fan of Knockout, most likely because it reminds me of Silverlight (rest in peace). For my thoughts on how Silverlight and Knockout compare, [...]
Windows Phone 8 Running App Article wins CodeProject competition
Colin Eberhardt, February 25th, 2013
TweetI’ve just received an email from those nice folks at CodeProject letting me know that my article A Windows Phone 8 Run Tracking App in 100 Lines of Code has just won the Best Mobile article of January 2013 award. I must admit, this one was a bit of a surprise. I put this article [...]
Linq to Objective-C
Colin Eberhardt, February 15th, 2013
TweetIn the past few months I have been immersing myself into the world of iOS development. Whilst the Objective-C language takes a little getting used to, with its odd syntax and memory management rules, it is certainly a fun platform to develop for. I do miss a few C# language features, such as events, but [...]
Introducing PropertyCross – Helping you select a cross-platform mobile framework
Colin Eberhardt, December 21st, 2012
TweetToday I am happy to announce the launch of PropertyCross, an open-source project on github comprising 14 different applications for 3 different platforms (iOS, Android and Windows Phone), using 6 different frameworks (native, jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch, Xamarin, Air) developed by a team of six contributors! The aim of PropertyCross is to make it easier [...]
Integrating Knockout and jQueryMobile
Colin Eberhardt, October 23rd, 2012
TweetThis blog post looks at the issues regarding integration of KnockoutJS and jQueryMobile, and provides a simple worked example – a Twitter Search application – where the two technologies play nicely together! The code for this blog post can be found on github. You can also try it out on your phone or browser. Integration [...]
Clearer – A Gesture-Driven Windows 8 To-Do Application
Colin Eberhardt, October 12th, 2012
A couple of days ago a published a new article on CodeProject, this latest article tackles the migration of a gesture-drive application from Windows Phone to Windows 8: “I had fun porting my gesture-driven to-do list application to Windows 8, and had an interesting journey along the way. There are lots of little differences between [...]
Toob – London Underground travel app
Graham Odds, October 4th, 2012
Tweet I have recently been working on an application called Toob as an entry for CodeProject’s App Innovation Contest. It is a London Underground travel app for Windows 8 that will be released to the Windows Store in due course. It is currently a work in progress but I have written an article introducing the [...]
An Introduction and Thoughts on Developing iOS Applications with MonoTouch
Colin Eberhardt, July 24th, 2012
This blog post describes the creation of a simple twitter search application for iOS, based on a similar application I wrote for Windows Phone a few months back. In this blog post I’ll used the MonoTouch platform, which allows you to write iOS applications using C#. This blog posts describes my experiences, and how it [...]
WPF Charting Performance Comparisons (the Battle Continues)
Colin Eberhardt, April 24th, 2012
This blog post presents a thorough analysis of the performance of various WPF Charting components. The results show that a new class of charting solutions, which use raster-based graphics as opposed to retained mode vector graphics, provide a considerable performance advantage. Introduction Readers of my blog will know that charting and performance are two things [...]