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We’re running a challenge where in you can Win a Nokia Windows Phone . The rules of said competition are detailed in the aforelinked post. There will be many more questions over the coming weeks,... Read More

Writing an application in PHP or any other language is both a rewarding and sometimes challenging endeavor. It’s also a time consuming process depending on the complexity of the project you’re... Read More

New audiences around the world access the Internet every second, most of whom would be delighted to find your content in their mother tongue. You might think you only need a good translator to... Read More
This is the second post in a three part series focused on setting up EC2 as a sandbox for application developers. I assume you have an AWS account with Amazon; if you don’t, please read Part 1 to... Read More
Ever since Windows Phone first shipped almost a year ago there has been almost endless discussion about what the next update/version will include. The first major update earlier in the year saw the... Read More

This is the second post in a three part series focused on setting up EC2 as a sandbox for application developers. I assume you have an AWS account with Amazon; if you don’t, please read Part 1 to... Read More
I’ve noticed there’s quite a bit of misunderstanding among .NET developers as to what Ruby or Rails are, and how those compare to what they came to know and love in .NET. I know I didn’t... Read More
In the next couple of posts we’re going to go on a bit of a tangent and discuss how you can connect your Windows Phone application to the cloud. Whilst a lot of these concepts can be applied to... Read More
In the next couple of posts we’re going to go on a bit of a tangent and discuss how you can connect your Windows Phone application to the cloud. Whilst a lot of these concepts can be applied to... Read More
Not very long ago when we were planning the launch of our humble magazine BuildMobile, which you are reading right now, the content strategy included coverage of the nebulous WebOS mobile operating... Read More
The last couple of sites that I want to cover in this series on authentication from your Windows Phone application are YouTube and FourSquare . The former uses OAuth 1, whilst the latter uses OAuth... Read More
The combination of Visual Studio and Expression Blend makes designing and developing Windows Phone applications relatively simple. However, it also makes it easy to use the standard controls without... Read More
The next cab off the authentication rank is Flickr . In the preceding posts you’ll have already seen a couple of implementations of OAuth 1. Unfortunately whilst Flickr claims that they implement... Read More
So far you’ve seen samples for authenticating and working with Facebook , Twitter and Live Id , covering OAuth 1 and 2. In this post you’ll see how easily we can take the existing code and get... Read More




