Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Toolkit Released
Microsoft has quietly released the Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Toolkit . Note that this is a ‘developer toolkit’ and not a full-blown SDK. As such, the WM 6.5 DTK has a dependency on the WM 6 SDK . The DTK contains documentation, sample code, header and library files, and emulator images. Rob Cameron has a nice intro overview here . I’ll have more this week… stay tuned!...
Speaking at devLink 2009
I will be speaking at devLink 2009! If you are not familiar with devLink , take a look at what great technical content you get over three days for only $75. Here is my speaker bio , and my sessions will be: Windows Mobile Development* Do you want to learn how to develop applications for Windows Mobile that are useful in your personal life, or in the enterprise? Had enough drag-and-drop demos where you build boring-looking applications? This session will include an introduction to the Windows Mobile platform, .NET Compact Framework, Windows Mobile SDKs, SQL Server Compact Edition...
The Mobile Minute 176
TMM is back after a four month hiatus… Microsoft has slightly tweaked the Start menu in Windows Mobile 6.5 to remove the honeycomb graphic, but leave the staggered layout. They’ve also tossed in some slight UI polish including built-in kinetic scrolling with a 1-page_at_a_time scroll (vs. a scroll to the bottom of the list). Check some stills at ArsTechnica . Catch Loke and John previewing WM 6.5 and Marketplace for Mobile at MiX http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/T61F (this is the same video as embedded in the aforementioned Ars post, but this is larger). For folks in to Drupal...
2008 Goal Recap
So here’s the score from what I set out to do in 2008 (and yes, the post date on that entry is off due to my blog migration) : Improve my health BMI of 24.9 or less - fail. I’m around 28.2 right now (better than the 29.8 I started with). I started the year around the 250 pounds mark and now am at 230; need to drop another 30. Most folks can’t tell, though. I suppose it is because I’m a few inches over 72. Improve cardiovascular conditioning – fail. The idea to do C25K came and went. Build my core and improve my posture – fail. Posture is minimally better, but that’s it. Get...
2009 Mobile Predictions
I think that this will be an interesting year in the mobile world, so I am going to venture out some predictions. Here are ten: 1. A major handset player will exit the market. “ Exit the market” as in cease to be an independent company, so they might be acquired by another. There has been a good deal of banter about this and most are saying that it is one of three, but offer up on specifically: Palm. Good night and good-bye. Despite the splash that “Nova” may make at CES this year, I, too, think it is too little, too late. Motorola may join them, but Sprint will hang on, at least for this...
MetaBlog Post Extension
MetaBlog Post Extension is a Graffiti plug-in that will allow you to set several post properties when posting via the MetaBlog API by including some tokens in your post body. I created this plug-in in response to a comment to my original Publishing to Graffiti CMS from Diarist post that asked about setting the Include on the Home Page property of a post when posting. Installing MetaBlog Post Extension Once you have the plug-in, you can either place it into your /bin directory yourself (via file copy or FTP), or use the File Browser in Graffiti. To use the File Browser, go go the Graffiti control...
Publishing to Graffiti CMS from Diarist, Redux
At the end of November, I posted on how to publish (post) to Graffiti CMS from Kevin Daly’s Diarist application on Windows Mobile Professional Edition via the MetaWeblog API. Kevin replied with a great tip on an even easier way to configure Diarist! Kevin’s reply: Actually, there's something you can do to avoid typing the endpoint: since Graffiti CMS supports RSD (I just had a look) Diarist will do endpoint discovery - just enter your blog url in the erm, Blog URL field and select Menu->Find API (which should be enabled if there is no value in the API field), and Diarist should...
Graffiti CMS 1.2 Released
The folks at Telligent have released version 1.2 of Graffiti CMS . If you are already running v1.1, the upgrade is dead simple – it is just a file overlay. As fast as you can copy/ftp the files, you are upgraded. Granted, it took me a few more minutes because I put my entire website under source control (and usually don’t version binaries, but made an exception here) , so I had to perform a check-out and check-in as well as the FTP up to my site host. ..and the upgrade worked without issue (as one would expect). Here’s the fix list (which is also on the page linked to above...
Graffiti Post Comments On January 23
On a recent post , an astute reader (and commenter) noticed that his comment (and all comments on that post) were appearing as ‘January 23, 2008’. I looked. Yikes! He was correct. Hmmm. I hit the Graffiti forums and found a few threads that mentioned it, but no fixes. Time to take a peek on my own. Once in the control panel, navigate to Presentation > Themes > Personalize (for the current theme). Next, click post.view to bring up the markup template behind an individual post. At this point I thought the first step would be to just perform a search for the string ‘January...
