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I finally buckled down and created a new blog skin. As of Oct. 24th everyone should be seeing the new Metro blog theme. Heavily inspired by the Zune client and the Metro XAML template. It should be a little more modern and roomy now.
So it’s finally version 1 complete. This app has consumed a chunk of my free time over the past couple months while I got familiarized with the WP7 tools, but it’s been a great learning experience. This was pretty much my first time doing any real Silverlight or XAML-based development. Using Blend was an absolute treat so I hope to use this tool much more in my future. Lots of features will be added in the next few months, including some city expansion. I look forward to really exercising my abstractions to see if I can really plug in new Transit Services as easily as I think I’ll be able to.
A year ago I had written briefly about my love-affair with the yield keyword. Today a question was posed to me and the follow-up discussion was interesting enough to me to warrant a quick post.
A common requirement for many applications is filtering rows of data based on the current user. A simple example is an e-commerce site which would want to make sure a Customer who is logged in is only able to view his own Orders. Another example...
Update Quite a bit has changed since June! The app is now called Bus Watch Chicago and is live on the marketplace. If you’ve got a windows phone please check it out! (You need the Zune client software installed for the link to work) Below...
