Category: SpriteKit
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Thank God the French exist
For the past decade I have been bombarded with the advice that web technology (HTML, CSS & Javascript) is the future of software development. Now that the desktop era has given way to the mobile era I find proponents of web technology again saying that web technology is the future for mobile apps. This is…
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MvcBuildViews is incompatible with Web Deploy
I implemented Web Deploy Packaging in my Business Intelligence application and found that it breaks MvcBuildViews. This happens because Web Deploy copies the components required for deployment into a sub-folder (under obj folder), duplicating the web.config file. MvcBuildViews then errors with a message about duplicated/nested configuration elements. This is a known issue on Microsoft Connect…
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Windows Phone 7 Dollar Key
I was writing an email today on the Windows Phone 7 and goodness me, where is the dollar ($) key? The keyboard setting for Australia is English (UK) and the only visible currency symbol is the Pound (£). But pressing and holding the Pound key reveals several more options, including the dollar!
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My Epiphany
Recently I’ve groked standards based web technology in a way that can only be described as an epiphany. This doesn’t mean I’ve turned my back on what I’ve known before, rather it means I’ve seen through my indifference to building software for the browser in a way that makes me a better developer. Specific technologies…
Mark Brownsword 