Ian Blackburn

Mobile

Apple's Mobile Me == Windows Me (well the logo at least)

Apple just announce MobileMe for push email, contacts and calendars for data in the cloud.  Interesting stuff - but the logo?  Hmmm.....   ==   Cheers Ian Technorati Tags: MobileMe,Windows Me

Windows Mobile - where is it heading?

Todd helpfully re-published the Windows Mobile Silverlight roadmap recently.  It does not make exciting reading.  In amongst news of Impressive Google Android Apps, (and here) a T-Mobile Android phone this year (from HTC) and endless twitter about iPhone and 3G, the road map is hardly going to light any fires.  Here's my take on the Windows Mobile roadmap in general, followed by my hope of a glimmer of light for all us WM developers and users... Windows Mobile 6.1 was just released - really nothing to write home about - threaded SMS is nice but there is not much...

Learning Linq with LINQPad

If you are getting into LINQ - then this free, copy and run app, is a great way to play with it. It's a companion to C# 3.0 in a Nutshell but it is valuable without the book, and comes with 200 samples! Recommended!   Cheers   Ian Technorati Tags: Linq,LinqPad,C#,Nutshell