As many of you know I spend some of my time traveling around to user groups and conferences to present on software and technology. Most of my presentations for the past year have been covering Windows Phone 7.
I became interested in WP7 when it launched while at Mix and have been working with it ever since. I have started several projects but never finished. It’s easy to start, it’s hard to finish.
I decided it was time to finish something and Microsoft gave me the perfect excuse – 30 to Launch. I signed up for the contenst at the begining of the month and I’m happy to report that I am now testing the app.
The application concept is simple. Give WP7 users access to the published wait time data for border crossings across the U.S.A. Windows Phone is the perfect platform to create an easy to use application that gets information to the user fast.
Check out the application website here: http://www.usbordercheck.com/
I will be submitting to the marketplace soon!
Hello people of the intrawebs. This is Fanzoo Technology. We started something new last month and this blog is part of it. We are knowledge workers. That is, the service we provide to our clients is about sharing and putting the knowledge that we have into practice. We do this by advising our clients on technology decisions and also by building software solutions that help solve their problems.
We have to know a thing or two about technology and software. The tricky part is that what we need to know is always changing. Learning is critical to the success of our business. Based on that understanding, we are now making research and learning time a key part of every employee’s week. We started this last month and I am already impressed with the results.
Each month we have a sharing session where each person takes twenty minutes or so to share what they’ve learned. Last month we learned about the following topics:
- Setting up a private NuGet repository for internal packages.
- Parallel programming with the Task Parallel Library.
- Software project management systems that implement a Kanban board.
- Setting up and skinning a WordPress blog.
The last topic has resulted in this blog. The idea here is that Fanzoo has a place to share what we are learning. Hopefully others will find this information useful. Even better, we hope that some will have great comments to contribute so we can learn from each other.
Thanks for reading and check back soon.
