Z & his Startup

Introducing FromHere Windows Phone Mango App

zeddy — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 06:48:44 GMT

We are glad to announce our first Windows Phone Mango 7.5 App published to Marketplace today, it’s called FromHere . Click to Download FromHere for Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango). Well, what’s it about? It’s based on the idea that from your current location...(read more)

WP7 Intro to MVVM & Blendability by building Twitter App (Part 1)

zeddy — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:45 GMT

This is a recap of my session with the same name from Windows Phone 7 App Showcase organized by Microsoft Gulf . I can’t write a 1-hour-to-read article to replay the session, so I’ll do this in a Hands-On-Lab manner. Best way to understand is to read...(read more)

How to Trick your Windows Phone to get NoDo (March 2011) Update

zeddy — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 17:20:28 GMT

This is…I don’t know what to say cos it’s just sad. I don’t think we have to “trick” our Window Phone just to get an update, but here goes. It started with a Microsoft blog announcing that the Copy-and-Paste update is released. Then everyone started to...(read more)

WP7: Dissecting we.Muslim app | Part 7 – Prayer Times Calculator

zeddy — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:50:15 GMT

Given a Latitude Longitude Coordinate & UTC Offset, we can calculate Prayer Times in anywhere of the world… Previous parts in this series: Part 1 – Wireframe Part 2 – Composites Part 3 – Icon Sizes Part 4 – Proper Splash Screen Part 5 - Get Current...(read more)

WP7: Dissecting we.Muslim app | Part 6 – Get Area Name from Latitude Longitude

zeddy — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:30:25 GMT

Given a latitude longitude coordinate, let’s now resolve this to a meaningful Area, Country string. Previous parts in this series: Part 1 – Wireframe Part 2 – Composites Part 3 – Icon Sizes Part 4 – Proper Splash Screen Part 5 - Get Current Latitude Longitude...(read more)

WP7: Dissecting we.Muslim app | Part 5 – Get Current Latitude Longitude

zeddy — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 20:42:02 GMT

In this part we will use Location Services to get current coordinates. I’ve created a class that you can reuse and it works with the GPS Emulator too. Previous parts in this series: Part 1 – Wireframe Part 2 – Composites Part 3 – Icon Sizes Part 4 – Proper...(read more)

WP7: Dissecting we.Muslim app | Part 4 – PROPER Splash Screen

zeddy — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:49:19 GMT

Prev Posts in the Series: Part 1 – Wireframe Part 2 – Composites Part 3 – Icon Sizes Notice that I put PROPER in All Caps. This is because there are 3 ways of showing Splash Screen and only 1 of them is correct (at least for my app). Let’s start with...(read more)

WP7: Dissecting we.Muslim app | Part 3 - Icon Sizes

zeddy — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:00:04 GMT

Prev Posts in the Series: Part 1 – Wireframe Part 2 – Composites Now, icons are the first thing users will see after buying your app, so make them look polished. Application Icon Application icon’s size is 62 x 62 pixels . If you don’t specify one, the...(read more)

WP7: Dissecting we.Muslim app | Part 2 - Composites

zeddy — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:43:19 GMT

Part 1 of the series shows how the Wireframe reminded me to prepare various codes (bearing calculation between two locations, getting travelling direction from GPS, etc.). In this second part, I only care about the design assets that will be used. Composites...(read more)

WP7: Dissecting we.Muslim app | Part 1 - Wireframe

zeddy — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:12:04 GMT

What app do you want to build? Draw it out on a whiteboard or Visio. When you put your ideas out, our brain cells engage and we can estimate the things we might need: buy 3rd party SDK, need an app server for push notification, learn new API, etc. This...(read more)

WP7: People Hub & “Get in, Get out” concept

zeddy — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:07:08 GMT

What I like about Windows Phone 7 is the integration of Facebook into Contacts . In fact, it’s one of the first things WP7 ask after you turn on the phone for the first time: Let’s face it, the people in your contacts are the most you want to hear...(read more)

Activate Azure Benefits from Bizspark MSDN

zeddy — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:27:10 GMT

If you’re one of the lucky ones who have MSDN Premium (Bizspark Members get MDSN Premium btw), you definitely should activate your Azure benefits. According to this link: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/offers/popup/popup.aspx?lang=en&locale...(read more)

WP7 News Reader w/ Streaming Video Ads Prototype

zeddy — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 03:04:28 GMT

This was our Proof-of-Concept last year to Kompas. Big Thanks to Andra & Kresna for this. Last year was on emulator, lo and behold now we brought to you live on a real Windows Phone 7 device: Share this post: | | | |...(read more)

WP7 Top 7 Design Tips w/ Screenshots

zeddy — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 03:33:42 GMT

Design Tips from Windows Phone 7 Team that are currently published: Start tiles and splash screens are your first impression… Make them great No white background or blackground! Remember WP7 has default black color theme or alternate white color...(read more)

WP7 How to speed up Application Certification process

zeddy — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 03:11:03 GMT

Accelerate Application Certification Want to know where to focus your attention before submitting an application for Windows Phone 7 certification testing? Following are the top seven areas to pay close attention, which will help shorten the time for...(read more)