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Nokia Lumia 920 Review

Posted by: ben.g | Marketing | November 2nd, 2012

Keith and I are in Redmond for Microsoft’s BUILD conference. We were lucky enough to pick up the yet-to-be-released Nokia Lumia 920. I’ve posted up my review: check it out.

Windows Phone: When not to use UTC

Posted by: ben.g | Technical | August 24th, 2012

If you’ve been coding on any platform for any length of time, you will have learnt that when manipulating dates it’s almost always best to use UTC. We’re the same here: spotting a rogue DateTime.Now is unusual, and it’s normally reflex to replace that with DateTime.UtcNow. There is however one unusual location in the Windows More »

Marker Metro: The World’s First 100% Windows App Agency

Posted by: ben.g | Marketing | June 28th, 2012

We’ve been up and running for a little while now, but last night we had our official launch party for press and friends. Here’s the press release to go along with it: Marker Metro: The World’s First 100% Windows App Agency With the imminent release of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 from Microsoft, Marker More »