Just submitted the latest update to Calendar Calculator to the Windows Phone Marketplace. This update includes a couple of features that I’ve been getting plenty of requests for: Added a “Countdown Details” page that comes up when a user taps on one of their Countdown items. The page defaults to showing the number of years, [...]

I have worked with several KVMs in the last 15 years and have always been left wanting more. I pretty much got to the point where I just avoided them as much as possible. That changed a few days ago when I got a new laptop that I want to sometimes use with my larger [...]

I just traded my old Acura MDX for a new 2011 model. One of the features I was most excited about was the fact that it had a hard drive that I could “record” my music to instead of having my favorite music spread across a bunch of MP3 CDs. My wife’s car, a Cadillac SRX, [...]

I just submitted the latest version of Meds Tracker to the Windows Phone Marketplace; it should be available later this week. This one includes a much requested new feature that I’ve ended up calling “fixed” schedules as that’s how most users who emailed me asking for it referred to it as well.

Testing your Windows Phone 7 apps is pretty straightforward in general. The tools support is great, the emulator is solid, and it’s very simple to deploy to your actual device to see how it works there. What wasn’t as clear to me was how to test app updates when changing the data structure I’m saving [...]

I’ve been made aware of a bug in the currently posted version of Meds Tracker on the Marketplace. There’s a very good chance of data loss *if* you don’t do anything to cause the app to commit any changes to the database during the first run following the update.