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2026

Protect your GitHub App private keys with Azure Key Vault and remote JWT signingoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2026

2019

My $6,000 Tesla Wall Connector: the story of bringing Electric Vehicle charging to a high-rise condo tower in Seattleoriginal ↗
25 Nov 2019
Scaling from 2,000 to 25,000 engineers on GitHub at Microsoftoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2019

2018

My home network: Ubiquiti UniFi gear, fiber gigabit Internet, CAT6 and CAT3 wiringoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2018

2015

From 20 to 2,000 engineers on GitHub: Azure, GitHub and our Open Source Portaloriginal ↗
18 Nov 2015

2013

Adobe's Creative Cloud - I've been spending $2/dayoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2013

2012

I reduced my cloud bill 9% this month by favoring my most active Windows Phone app users (Live Tiles, Leaderboards, Toasts)original ↗
13 May 2012
A few 4th & Mayor things: Node cloud backend, Nokia Apps Madness, new markets & localization effortsoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2012
4th & Mayor - 1 Year Lateroriginal ↗
20 Mar 2012
To the cloud!original ↗
12 Feb 2012
Windows Phone apps, built out of “the 3 P’s”: Panoramas, Pivots, and Pagesoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2012
Please ship your next Windows Phone app with GZip: speed requests 50-80%original ↗
22 Jan 2012
A quick look at MetroRadio: quick spacing, margin, and icon tips for Windows Phone devsoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2012
A simple Windows Phone control for reading QR codesoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2012

2011

My new Windows Phone Emulator theme–simple and sleekoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2011
MPNS module for Node: A simple push notification helper for the cloudoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2011
November release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkitoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2011
Drive your application’s navigation through templated HyperlinkButtons and smart data binding to app-wide URIsoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2011
ScreenShots.cs: How to capture screenshots of your app on your deviceoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2011
MetroGridHelper: A helpful debugging assistant for designers and developers alikeoriginal ↗
7 Oct 2011
Resizing images to square, aspect-ratio friendly bits with Node, Express, and ImageMagickoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2011
A note about remote URIs in Windows Phone secondary tilesoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2011
Friday at //BUILD/: Jeff Wilcox on Windows Phone Performanceoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2011
Exploring the August 2011 Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit for ‘Mango’original ↗
17 Aug 2011
Creating a global ProgressIndicator experience using the Windows Phone 7.1 SDK Beta 2original ↗
7 Jul 2011
Building a detailed About page for your Windows Phone applicationoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2011
Excellent Silverlight for Windows Phone Performance Postsoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2011
4th & Mayor v2 is now releasedoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2011
Updated Silverlight Unit Test Framework binaries–compatible with the Mango phone tools betaoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2011
April was a busy month. Looking back and ahead…original ↗
7 May 2011
Speaker evaluations: they’re important, please turn them in!original ↗
17 Apr 2011
Windows Phone App Performance: My session from MIX11original ↗
15 Apr 2011
My Focus-themed Windows Phone emulator themeoriginal ↗
5 Apr 2011
Analytics and automatic app feedback: A slippery but interesting slope for Windows Phone appsoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2011
Jeff Wilcox’s “Metro” design guide for developers, v1.00original ↗
25 Mar 2011
Windows Phone, a great dev platform: adding leaderboards to 4th & Mayor in 30 minutesoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2011
4th & Mayor: the ultimate foursquare app for your Windows Phoneoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2011
Upcoming speaking engagements on the Windows Phoneoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2011
I’m developing my own Foursquare client for the Windows Phoneoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2011
Using AutoCompleteBox in a Windows Phone Panorama or Pivot itemoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2011
Windows Phone Pivot Control: Enable text wrapping for the Titleoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2011
Introducing the February 2011 Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkitoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2011
Notes on Silverlight and Phone Toolkits, Testing and Other Phone Stufforiginal ↗
6 Feb 2011

2010

A small but important UX improvement for ScrollViewer on the Windows Phoneoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2010
PhoneHyperlinkButton updated: now supports web, email, text and phone call tasksoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2010
A quick and easy extension to HyperlinkButton for Windows Phone 7original ↗
30 Nov 2010
MyPhotoApp: Sample project from my Windows Phone development series at Øredevoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2010
A quick look at the types of Windows Phone page transition animationsoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2010
A less abrupt progress bar for Windows Phone developersoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2010
“The Future of Silverlight” keynote by ScottGu starts off the 12/2/10 FireStarter eventoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2010
WP7 Panorama: Smoothly fading the background (and enabling fading when changing, too)original ↗
14 Nov 2010
Silverlight and Windows Phone sessions at Øredev next weekoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2010
Exploring Windows Phone Application Development Talk at JAOO Conference 4.10.10original ↗
3 Oct 2010
Transition guide from phone.codeplex.com to the official Panorama & Pivot controlsoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2010
Early Windows Phone media with the Silverlight Mobile teamoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2010
Windows Phone Developers: Enjoy the new controls, toolkit, and final tools!original ↗
16 Sept 2010
Exploring List capacities and growth on the Windows Phoneoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2010
Windows Phone performance progress bar update: part 2, remember to turn IsIndeterminate off when not needed!original ↗
17 Aug 2010
Blend tip: finding default styles using “Edit a Copy”original ↗
11 Aug 2010
Panorama and Pivot controls for Windows Phone developersoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2010
TiltContentControl for Windows Phoneoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2010
Creating high performance Windows Phone apps - THE WHITEPAPERoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2010
The high performance ProgressBar for Windows Phone (“PerformanceProgressBar”)original ↗
2 Aug 2010
Frame rate counters in Windows Phoneoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2010
Updated Silverlight Unit Test Framework bits for Windows Phone and Silverlight 3original ↗
27 May 2010
How about a Zune-style ChildWindow?original ↗
21 May 2010
Windows Phone? Sounds exciting!original ↗
21 May 2010
Using Silverlight 4 features to create a Zune-like context menuoriginal ↗
15 May 2010
Deep dive on Silverlight unit testing at Tech Ed next monthoriginal ↗
11 May 2010
Silverlight Unit Test Framework: New version in the April 2010 Silverlight Toolkitoriginal ↗
3 May 2010
Property change notifications for multithreaded Silverlight applicationsoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2010
Template parts and custom controls (quick tip)original ↗
1 Apr 2010
Silverlight 4: New parser implementation. New parser features.original ↗
29 Mar 2010
“Peppermint” MIX demo sourcesoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2010
Displaying 2D QR barcodes in Windows Phone applicationsoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2010
Data binding user settings in Windows Phone applicationsoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2010
No March 2010 release of the Silverlight Toolkitoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2010
Making that corporate office a little more personaloriginal ↗
24 Mar 2010
Silverlight Toolkit and the Windows Phone: WrapPanel, and a few othersoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2010
Building Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4 applications on a .NET 3.5 build machineoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2010
Unit Testing Silverlight & Windows Phone Applications – talk now onlineoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2010
Insert Tag Snippet plugin for Windows Live Writer (that works with Windows 7)original ↗
10 Mar 2010
A syntax highlighting TextBlock for Silverlight 3original ↗
8 Mar 2010
Ready to test those Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Series apps?original ↗
7 Mar 2010
Code signing Visual Studio 2010 extensions (VSIX)original ↗
2 Mar 2010
Getting started with code signing for under $100original ↗
27 Feb 2010
Column guides for Visual Studio 2010: An extensionoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2010
AutoCompleteBox: Now with 100% more WPForiginal ↗
25 Feb 2010
Helpful Silverlight Snippetsoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2010

2009

C# regions sure can be uselessoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2009
Walkthrough: The power of the November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit testing toolsoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2009
Application Library Caching – November 2009 Silverlight Toolkitoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2009
BusyIndicator: David Poll’s ActivityControl is now in the Silverlight Toolkit November 2009 Releaseoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2009
Taking the Silverlight Control Browser sample Out-of-Browser ... plus a tutorialoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2009
The Silverlight Toolkit – now in the Microsoft Web Platform Installeroriginal ↗
4 Nov 2009
Round-tripping Silverlight 3 projects with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010original ↗
22 Oct 2009
Application Library Caching support for the Silverlight Toolkitoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2009
Silverlight Toolkit October 2009 Releaseoriginal ↗
19 Oct 2009
Creating a two dimensional barcode control for Silverlight 3original ↗
30 Sept 2009
Adding ToArgb() to the Silverlight Color classoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2009
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