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Are you passionate about developing applications for mobile devices? Do you have deep experience with either iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7, or Mobile Web? Would you like to be involved in some of the coolest mobile projects for organizations? If the answer to the above is yes, we’d love to hear from you. We are [...]
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A couple of my previous blog posts have shown how AppFabric ACS (Access Control Service) can be used as part of the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS to enable federated authentication with Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and other providers. I was recently asked whether it’s possible to extract an OAuth token as part of the ACS [...]
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At the end of August, Microsoft published the Windows Azure Toolkit for Android. At Neudesic, the partner behind developing the both toolkits for iOS and Android, we’ve been working with customers that use the toolkit to connect mobile applications to the cloud. One of the recent requests however has been to provide a walkthrough of [...]
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In late July, Microsoft announced availability of a new build of Mango, build 7712 – also commonly known as the RC Build. Given that we are close to RTM, yet it may still take carriers some time before deploying Mango to your device, you might be itching to try out the new bits. If you [...]
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In my last post, I showed how to implement authentication using Google, Facebook, etc. for your iOS application – using the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS. This works well for iPhone applications written in Objective C, but what if you are developing a Web based mobile applications that span multiple platforms? Given that everything is [...]
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Additional thanks to those who attended my session this morning (DPR303 – Developing Enterprise-Grade Mobile Applications). I’ve uploaded the deck to SlideShare – you can find it at the bottom of this post.
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Thanks to everyone that came to my session at TechEd 2011 yesterday – it was a great crowd, and the presentation was a lot of fun to put together. My apologies for any confusion with the title (i.e. not making it explicit that it was a developer talk in the title) – this will definitely [...]
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In my MIX11 session last week I demonstrated how to create push notifications to iPhone and iPad devices from Wndows Azure. I’ve put together this blog post to share more detail and the source code for how this works. Firstly, if you haven’t already, you will need to register your iPhone/iPad application for push notifications. [...]
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I’m on the road for the next few weeks, visiting locations across the US, holding a series of “Mobility lunches”. These lunches are a great way to get up to speed with what mobility means for your organization – from the current state of the mobile market, handsets, tablets, through to building applications and solutions [...]
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Thanks to all that came to my session at MIX11 last week – it was a lot of fun to put together despite a couple of demo glitches! You can now view the recording of this online, as well as browse and download the slides below. I’ll be sharing the source code for the demos [...]
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