[Windows Mobile Software Development] joe_coolish:
I'm Back!

Hi everyone! I'm back :)

I have read every reply while I was gone and even snuck a few coding sessions to fix some minor bugs that have been reported. I thank everyone for their support and praise :) It really helps!

On that note, I noticed that over the past week, this thread has gone from 5 stars to 4 stars?:confused: If there is anything I can do to make those who voted less than 5 stars change their vote, please PM me and I will try and resolve any issues.

So, I had quite the adventure over the holiday. I've been visiting the in-laws in the Mid-West for the past week, so I haven't had access to real internet (I was only able to check xda via my HD2 and even my cell signal was hit or miss). I wanted to wait till I was on a real computer to reply to everyone and talk about the next update. So here I am!

First, the adventure (skip to the bolded text for the project update): I was suppose to fly in yesterday afternoon, but when my plane was about 30 miles away from my airport, the weather caused the plane to be diverted 200 miles away the nearest big city. At that, my wife decided she wanted to sleep so I busted out the lappy to do some work on the project (I swear it's an unhealthy addiction!) but I only had 20% battery left (we'd been watching TV on it the first part of the trip) so about an hour later I was left lappy-less :(

3 hours later we were given the all-clear to return my home town airport... We landed in SLC and my parents picked us up and took us home. We ate dinner (this was actually the first meal I had eaten all day and it was 21:30) and then left into a full on blizzard. We FINALLY got home and started to unpack and I realized that I left my lappy along with all the new code at my parent's house. So, frustrated with the day, I decided to play a little Call of Duty on my xbox. Well, 3 or 4 games later, I was having an amazing game and... my xbox RROD'd.... So, I've spent all day today modding and unRRODing it (warranty was void many years ago).

moral of the story: I didn't get hardly anything done since before Christmas.

ANYWAYS! Project updates:

The one thing I did get done was mapped out a solution for the Home screen. I'm going to make a CHT-esque 3x3 grid that you can assign specific short-cuts. It will also allow me to not have squished tiles in landscape!

The CHT-esque grid will be pageable as well. Meaning there will be multiple 3x3 panels (like the iPhone Facebook Client). I'm going to make the farthest left panel be a global Facebook search and the farthest right panel be a "Pictures" panel that can be sorted either by random photos of a specific user/all friend or most recent uploaded (or anything else that people might want)

I also figured out how I want to implement updates!!!!

I played with my Dad's iPhone while I was at his house and it recently got a Facebook Client update that was pretty cool. The way they do updates is scroll to the top of an updateable panel (ie, Feeds) and then pull the panel down to revile a hidden "magic update item". If you pull the panel down enough to revile the whole update item and then released, all the updated posts to that panel are added!

It may seem complicated, but trust me, it's very intuitive.

Well, sorry for such a long post and such a long absence! I hope everyone had a great holiday!