Welcome to Pallet Town! Pallet town is going to be an ongoing bi-weekly look at various development technologies and techniques from the perspective of someone new to that technology. For those who might know or (God forbid) are too young to get the reference, Pallet...
Last week I mentioned that Microsoft is in danger of becoming IBM. This got a good deal of response from the Microsoft fans on Twitter and it was of course not meant to be provocative; in fact, I was just stating the fact that the recent releases of Windows RT and...
Microsoft has been having a bad time in the consumer face for the last few years -- they’ve failed to jump on the mobile train in any significant way and have tried to modernize Windows but face a lot of resistance from users and pundits. Personally, I like Windows 8;...
I’ve been doing a good deal of C# WinRT development recently and for the most part it hasn’t been bad. This week, however, I found a pitfall that is not only so simple it’s silly but also managed to waste an hour or so of my time. WinRT has a class called MediaElement...
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Hi! I’m Mike! I’m a software engineer who codes at The Mad Botter INC. You might know me from Coder Radio or The Mike Dominick Show. Drop me a line if you’re interested in having some custom mobile or web development done.
