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After registering I attended the now legendary Jim Wilson Pre Con. Jim’s knowledge on the mobility subject is excellent and that coupled with his presentation style helps to pass a whole day without actually noticing the time! That coupled with some nuggets that I'll share with you at somepoint...If I haven’t already passed his ...

 Avoid Boxing,use generics... See here http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/effectivecspart1.asp#item3 Also if the method has a IDisposable, then clean it up after... (the GC will get rid of it, but we don't want the GC to do it if we can)

Well, not one to be out done by the other Conchango Las Vegas attendees... I thought I'd let you know how what to expect when you make it... (If you haven't left for Vegas already, "man you is late!") Las Vegas is a MASSIVE city of contrasts... I love some things, I hate some things. On that, that's all ...

I've been playing around with this for a while now and I'm very happy that these guys have gone to RC1 already... Good work...  SMS Toolkit SDK

Last June The Moth talked about a project to port the .net Compact Framework for Symbian devices... Well the other day it was released... I've been looking at it and I'm pleased with it so far... I'll see if I can get some screen shots of our KPI Dashboard running using it...

In case have been hiding in a bush someplace recently, I have a Windows Mobile Palm Treo... I love it... It’s great... I don’t notice the loss of screen size and the hardware is of a top standard... However... (You just knew it was coming) I was playing with the MessageInterceptor class the other day and I was getting some bizarre ...

So in the past few years Global Positioning System, GPS, has really started to hit the consumer market in a big way, once it was a tool to find the “enemy”, then moving into the Nautical, Aeronautical and mapping industries, it’s now a tool that can save marriages. We have had the Serial connected and Bluetooth standalone GPS ...

In case you didn't hear the other day... The BETA of Service Pack 1 was released last week (15th December). It's always good to see a service pack being released. It shows the commitment to the product (like we needed to see that with VS2k5)... It's also good as they tend to bundle other little things in it ...

4 years ago to the day Leigh Geary, a man with a mission, to make sure EVERY ONE GETS A Smartphone... Good lad I like your aggenda :) Well done to him for sticking to it. I mean this guy holds down a job, a hot wife and planned a wedding all whilst giveing us info on the latest Windows Mobile stuff... O and his need for BEER ;) GOOD WORK ...

One of the things that I love about my job is that every day I get a new problem and every day I'm happy to say I learn something new... It's why I don't up and leave to Aus (well just yet)... Today I found out that if you include a shortcut in your Smart Device CAB Project to go into the Start Menu it will NOT replace any of the ...