iPhone Development with MonoTouch

Worth every penny - enough for corporate types to consider if they really want to start developing for the Apple platform.
Wiki-site
Gps is ridiculously easy
When I think of the pain I've went through - even simpler.
Will it work with Microsoft backends? Well, kinda. The jury is still out, and it's still experimental.WCF Services for iPhone
The best part. They actually support Sqlite intrisically on the phone. Are you listening Silverlight product owners?

Silverlight 4 Hopes and Woes

Woes
A developer from VistaDB posted the following.
the .net framework in silverlight, compact framework, ADO (not!)


A key comment in the blog entry is this:

“I do agree that Silverlight is an underserved market, but I think that is by Microsoft design. They want everything to be service driven and use online services. They appear to be skipping over the local database entirely. I guess your phone is never supposed to be out of range of a tower, or your Silverlight app on a desktop that is offline.”

Really?

And with all the work for Out-of-Browser mode (elevated trust, device support, etc), that never seemed to cross anyone's mind? Ooops, I'm offline. Let me save my work?

Really?

Maybe Sqlite is an option?

Maybe siaqodb is an option?

Really? No-one considered this?

really.

IoC for Silverlight

Ninject vs. Unity who will win in a fight. Right now it seems that Ninject may have a problem with the new Windows Mobile O/S. And I was really rooting for Ninject too!

How to Target Multiple .NET Frameworks

General concerns is that a majority of Open Source projects don't really consider Silverlight.

Now porting existing WPF applications to Silverlight - it really makes you appreciate the fullness of the .NET runtime!

If I continue to be abused by Microsoft I guess there is always Mono although it tends to lag behind the MS expectation and hype.