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Protect your GitHub App private keys with Azure Key Vault and remote JWT signing

My $6,000 Tesla Wall Connector: the story of bringing Electric Vehicle charging to a high-rise condo tower in Seattle

Scaling from 2,000 to 25,000 engineers on GitHub at Microsoft

My home network: Ubiquiti UniFi gear, fiber gigabit Internet, CAT6 and CAT3 wiring

From 20 to 2,000 engineers on GitHub: Azure, GitHub and our Open Source Portal

Adobe's Creative Cloud - I've been spending $2/day

I reduced my cloud bill 9% this month by favoring my most active Windows Phone app users (Live Tiles, Leaderboards, Toasts)

A few 4th & Mayor things: Node cloud backend, Nokia Apps Madness, new markets & localization efforts

4th & Mayor - 1 Year Later

To the cloud!

Windows Phone apps, built out of “the 3 P’s”: Panoramas, Pivots, and Pages

Please ship your next Windows Phone app with GZip: speed requests 50-80%

A quick look at MetroRadio: quick spacing, margin, and icon tips for Windows Phone devs

A simple Windows Phone control for reading QR codes

My new Windows Phone Emulator theme–simple and sleek

MPNS module for Node: A simple push notification helper for the cloud

November release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit

Drive your application’s navigation through templated HyperlinkButtons and smart data binding to app-wide URIs

ScreenShots.cs: How to capture screenshots of your app on your device

MetroGridHelper: A helpful debugging assistant for designers and developers alike

Resizing images to square, aspect-ratio friendly bits with Node, Express, and ImageMagick

A note about remote URIs in Windows Phone secondary tiles

Friday at //BUILD/: Jeff Wilcox on Windows Phone Performance

Exploring the August 2011 Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit for ‘Mango’

Creating a global ProgressIndicator experience using the Windows Phone 7.1 SDK Beta 2

Building a detailed About page for your Windows Phone application

Excellent Silverlight for Windows Phone Performance Posts

4th & Mayor v2 is now released

Updated Silverlight Unit Test Framework binaries–compatible with the Mango phone tools beta

April was a busy month. Looking back and ahead…

Speaker evaluations: they’re important, please turn them in!

Windows Phone App Performance: My session from MIX11

My Focus-themed Windows Phone emulator theme

Analytics and automatic app feedback: A slippery but interesting slope for Windows Phone apps

Jeff Wilcox’s “Metro” design guide for developers, v1.00

Windows Phone, a great dev platform: adding leaderboards to 4th & Mayor in 30 minutes

4th & Mayor: the ultimate foursquare app for your Windows Phone

Upcoming speaking engagements on the Windows Phone

I’m developing my own Foursquare client for the Windows Phone

Using AutoCompleteBox in a Windows Phone Panorama or Pivot item

Windows Phone Pivot Control: Enable text wrapping for the Title

Introducing the February 2011 Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit

Notes on Silverlight and Phone Toolkits, Testing and Other Phone Stuff

A small but important UX improvement for ScrollViewer on the Windows Phone

PhoneHyperlinkButton updated: now supports web, email, text and phone call tasks

A quick and easy extension to HyperlinkButton for Windows Phone 7

MyPhotoApp: Sample project from my Windows Phone development series at Øredev

A quick look at the types of Windows Phone page transition animations

A less abrupt progress bar for Windows Phone developers

“The Future of Silverlight” keynote by ScottGu starts off the 12/2/10 FireStarter event