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Windows Phone 7, Hammock, OAuth and Sina Weibo’s API

| Filed under Mobile Programming

OK, I am developing a windows phone 7 app for Sina Weibo. I just simply don’t like the basic authorisation… And OAuth is much better since once you get the access token, you can use it all the time rather than always passing the username and password around. though there are already two Sina Weibo client apps (1 free and 1 is asking for $0.99) in marketplace, my friend Remy and I still want to develop a new app which will be free and open source.

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Windows Phone Marketplace Tip for 5.6 Technical Support Information

| Filed under Mobile Programming

OK, it turns out that Microsoft is forcing this policy from the new year, I mean from 2011. My little simple free app’s update was failed the certification at 5.6, which simply requires you to expose your app’s version number and your contact information to end users. So if your app has just single page, probably just put it in some corner and set the opacity lower. If you have multiple pages, adding an about page will be a good idea.

So how about contact info? I tried to add my twitter link to the app, and it just works. From some internal discussion, I would think following information will be OK (not guaranteed…) since in basic, it just requires you to provide a contact approach for end user to contact/feedback to you.

  • twitter link
  • a webpage/website
  • embedded contact form page
  • email
  • anything else can find you…

Hope this helps…

Is Windows Phone 7 Series the One I Expect?

| Filed under Mobile

Microsoft announced WP7 series on WMC2010. (Announce video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-HtdW03Zs, pretty cool!) And there are lots of people are talking about it. But what I expect of a mobile OS? I write this down 9 months ago:

1. Small/Micro kernel.
2. Powerful UI.
3. Simple Application development.

And what I can see now is it really has an innovative UI and I like it. The kernel should be neat althought it definitely should be based on Win CE (guess). So what I really want to know is how to develop app based on this new UI. It should bring a tough switch… But let’s check it out on MIX10…