Icon files produced using PNG Compression cause issues on Win XP.

First we had the iPhone, next came Android, and now the latest in the smartphone offering is Windows Phone 7 from Microsoft.  Having heard mixed feelings about Microsoft’s previous phone software, I have never owned a phone running Microsoft software.  I currently use a HTC Desire running Android as this prevents me becoming part of the “Apple” cult! 

I have to say I love the Android operating system but have never had the desire to develop an application for it.  This maybe because I am a C# developer and feel that I probably do not have the skills to develop for the Android platform, or it maybe that I am just plain lazy!  The latter is probably true.

The launch of Windows Phone 7 has caught my interest due to the ability to develop applications by utilising technology that I am already familiar with.  It appears that I can create applications in a similar fashion to rich internet applications or WPF applications.

As we speak, I am downloading the free “Windows Phone 7 Developer Toolkit”...

When it comes to writing T-SQL, one of my pet hates is the unnecessary use of loops and cursors. As we all know, SQL is a set based language and has been designed to work using sets of data. Far too often do I see people looping unnecessarily in their back-end code resulting in a slow user interface.

DotNetNuke (DNN) is a multi-portal web content management system. The softwareknowhow.info web site is a working example of what can be achieved using the DNN framework. DNN started out as an application from Microsoft designed to demonstrate the functionality available in their new ASP.NET 1.0 platform. This application was named the IBuySpy Portal.