Seriously. This is a major problem with the iPhone 3G and its software. I had to endure 2 restores already in the first two weeks I had it. Luckily it backs everything up on iTunes so at least i did not lose anything other than my time. (Hmph ... my time ... each restore took well over an hour!) I

That bad place must have frozen over. Why? Because I bought a MacBook Pro. Never thought I would do it, but recent events made it actually very viable for me. First, intel based MacBooks make Vista an option. Second, iPhone development requires some sort of Mac OS, which I could have gotten a mini I

I just finished another chapter in my Data Services with Silverlight 2 book. And its another chapter without discussing converters. Specifically I mean classes that implement the IValueConverter interface and its Convert and ConvertBack methods.This is a fairly simple concept and it relates directly

It's crazy generic method time! Here is a method I created for fun that either returns a List<T> or a ObservableCollection<T>, depending on what you pass in via generic parameters. It creates a list of Product entity instances with some fake data. The L stands for the type of IColle

Just ran several tests on EDGe and 3G with my iPhone 3G. Overall the speeds from EDGE were as expected … slow. The average speed after 5 tests on 3 different speed test sites using EDGE was 111kbps. The average speed on 3G after 5 tests on 3 different sites was 390kbps. That’s a pretty substantial i