Often when integrating a Windows Phone app with a third party service that’s not a production service you’ll occasionally run into a self-signed SSL certificate. For obvious reasons by default Windows Phone doesn’t like these certificates as they can’t really be trusted. If you try and make a web request you’ll find it errors with More »
New Zealand Herald Windows 8 app wins award
Marked Up is a fantastic tool for user analytics with Windows 8 apps and with Caliburn Micro really easy to setup. For the sake of this blog post I’m going to assume you already have an app up and running with Caliburn Micro and are looking to integrate Marked Up analytics into your app. First More »
How to make sure your application doesnt crash or fail silenty when using async/await
The award winning Xbox LIVE Windows Phone title AlphaJax has been upgraded to work great in Azure
AlphaJax Xbox LIVE now available!
Marker Metro CEO Keith Patton wins Software Developer of the Year Award
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 »
Come and meet the Marker Metro team and here us speak at Tech Ed New Zealand 2012
Marker Metro ports Caliburn Micro to WinRT to help you build great MVVM metro style applications on Windows 8