mobile thoughts – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

My Windows Phone App Wishlist

I love my Windows Phone, but the one thing that still needs improvement is the number of ‘big name’ apps available when compared to iOS and Android. This is a list of the ones that would make my day, in no particular order. I realize that there are apps for some of these, but I’m looking for official apps for the site/product.

Verizon FiOS DVR Manager
Verizon FiOS on Demand
Fidelity
US Airways
Amazon Cloud Drive
Amazon Cloud Player
Google+
Gmail
Google Reader
Angry Birds Seasons
Angry Birds Rio
NPR
Sportsline Fantasy Football
Sportsline Fantasy Baseball
Stack Overflow
WatchESPN
Audible – I’m hearing March 2012 rumors on this one.
Dropbox
Box
Instapaper
Tumblr
Posterous
7 Wonders (1, 2 & 3)
Worms
A good Bocce game

What do you think? Let’s see your lists.

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Live Mesh and Vista UAC

Wow…

I was thrilled to see that I got my Live Mesh invite email last night. However, when I tried to install the client software on my laptop, I got this error:

“Product does not support running under an elevated administrator account or with UAC disabled.”

I’m not sure why I have to enable UAC to use Live Mesh, but I won’t be turning it back on any time soon. Maybe I’ll give it a try in an XP VPC.

Technorati: live mesh, vista uac, click-happy

Dew Drop – April 25, 2008

Miscellaneous

Software + Service (Ashish Jaiman)
Ray Ozzie’s Latest Memo – Software Plus Services Strategy and Live Mesh – First Look Whitepaper and Microsoft’s Software Plus Services Website Goes Live (Steve Clayton)
Two New Rosario Specifications (Charles Sterling)
Books: We Need More ‘So What’, ‘Now What’ and ‘What For?’ and Less Just ‘What’ (Scott Hanselman)
The Problem with Software Registration (Jeff Atwood)

Blogging/Writing

Writer, the web-based distraction-free writing… (Kevin Purdy)
Be a WindowsClient.Net Blogger (mpochimcherla)
let Matt = CodeBetter + 1 (Matthew Podwysocki)

.NET

A Great XPath Query Tool (Shahar Yair)
Why Can’t I Access a Protected Member From a Derived Class, Part Three (Eric Lippert)
United States Postal Service (USPS) Web Tools Wrapper (JohnnyCantCode)
Video: John Lam on IronRuby (Dave Laribee)
RoboChamps – Simulated Robotics League (Bob Familiar)
Faster Builds with MSBuild Using Parallel Builds and Multicore CPUs (Scott Hanselman)
InfoQ Interview: Framework Design Studio Released (Brad Abrams)
Interesting Extension Hack to Get Around NullReferenceExceptions (Nick Berardi)

Web Development

AJAX Images Sliders Part 2: Intervals with On Demand (David Cilley)
Five More Principles of Effective Web Design (Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz)
Book Review: ASP.NET Ajax in Action [5 Stars] (Rachel Appel)
ASP.NET MVC: MVC Storefront, Part 5 (Rob Conery)
47 ASP.NET MVC Resources to Rock Your Development (Craig Shoemaker)

Silverlight/WPF

An Introduction to Using a DataGrid Control in Silverlight 2.0 (Abhilash Nedumpurath)
Pimp My ListView (Rudi Grobler)
A Few Noteworthy SL Samples (Scott McCraw)
Explore Silverlight Project Hierarchy with Silverlight Spy 2 (intelligent adventurer) – Link of the Day

PowerShell

How Could You Top CTP1? and Changes in Upcoming CTP (Jeffrey Snover)

SQL Server

So Do You Think Deciding Between a Clustered or Non-Clustered Index Is Difficult? (Denis Gobo)
Column Headings from SQL Results – Easier Way (Rhonda Tipton)
Clustered or Non-Clustered? Why Not Both? (Kalen Delaney)
SET vs SELECT – When to Use What (vivekamar)

Design/Methodology

Composition vs Inheritance (Christopher Diggins)
Refactoring Code Is Like Doing the Dishes (Max Pool)

Link Collections

Links Today (2008-04-24) (Matt Hinze)
Daily Find #60 (Tim Boland)
Morning Coffee 164 (Harry Pierson)
Silverlight Cream for April 24, 2008 – #258 (Dave Campbell)
LINKBLOG for April 24, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links (4/24/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
The Morning Brew #81 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #194 (Mike Gunderloy)
WPF/Silverlight/XAML Web News – 2008/04/25 (Rob Relyea)

Book of the Day

ASP.NET AJAX in Action: Alessandro Gallo,David Barkol,Rama Vavilala,Scott Guthrie,Bertrand Le Roy: Books

Technorati: .net development, silverlight 2, xaml, wpf, sql server, powershell 2, asp.net mvc, asp.net ajax, .net extension methods

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