Mango App Challenge winner!
So a little bit ago my second Windows Phone app was approved. http://blog.shuttr.com/2011/11/20/shuttr-photographers-now-have-a-windows-phone-app-too/ Here are my two apps up on the Windows Phone Marketplace: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-CA/publishers/Shuttr Once the approval came through I filled out the form on the Mango App Challenge page. https://www.microsoft.com/canada/offers-promotions/mango-app-challenge/Default.aspx I didn’t hear anything back for a while, so I contacted Paul Laberge (@plaberge) on Twitter. He got back to me immediately and before long I was declared a winner! The phones that they were offering were a bit disappointing, so I have…
First Windows Phone 7 application published!
Well, my first application has been published. http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=e995f3ee-9fd4-4e60-bdba-a30168099cd1 My first attempt was a bit of a probe to see what the process is like. I whipped the app together in about an hour and it was quite basic. I wanted to see: If I would be rejected What I would be rejected for What the timelines are like Turns out I was rejected in about 2 or 3 days for two reasons. I had no error handling in my data requests so it would crash…
Writing a JSON API in ASP.NET MVC 3
Here is a snippet of the source for the current API on Shuttr. The repositories are bound using Ninject so that our code is unit testable. As you can see, the actual call is pretty simple using LINQ, anonymous objects and the new JSON helpers in .Net.
Windows Phone AppHub Developer Account Update – Day 4
Here’s the day 4 update on my Windows Phone On Friday I applied for my developer account. Filled out a couple pages of forms, paid my $100 fee, etc. I was then emailed to verify my account, I clicked that link and it said my account would be fully verified shortly. On Monday I got an email saying that Shuttr wasn’t found in their business database and that I needed to submit additional paperwork to verify my business. I emailed them back my registered trade name…
Windows Phone 7 development beginning
So Microsoft just launched a cool program for Canadian developers, the Mango App Challenge. Basically, if you write two Windows Phone 7 apps you get a free Windows Phone. I have plans to develop mobile apps for Shuttr for Android, iPhone and Windows Phone but this contest just pushed Windows Phone to the front of that list instantly! I added some new RESTful JSON APIs to Shuttr pretty easily. ASP.NET MVC makes this dead easy. I downloaded the Windows Phone 7.1 SDK and created my…
New Relic + Windows Azure package for NuGet
Installing New Relic on Windows Azure is a bit of a pain so I’ve created a NuGet package for it to make it dead easy. I’ll keep it updated with the latest NewRelic releases. Make sure you go to New Relic first to sign up and get your key. Performance monitoring will never be the same after you do! http://newrelic.com The package will be available through your NuGet package manager. You can view it on the web as well: http://nuget.org/List/Packages/NewRelicWindowsAzure Once you install the NuGet…
Shuttr – The Concept
I began taking sports photos after retiring from rowing and needing something new to fill up my spare time. I photographed several of the rowing races in Victoria and began having friends ask if they could buy the photos off of me. I was a Computer Science student at the time so I decided to go all out. I registered mikecousins.com, setup an e-commerce site and threw all of my photos up on the web for purchase. I began taking on different sports and the…