How to handle the trailing slash in a WCF HTTP Service – Ron Jacobs – Site Home – MSDN Blogs

How to handle the trailing slash in a WCF HTTP Service – Ron Jacobs – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.

You never know when users may add that trailing slash on an enrolment URL…

Apple iOS 5 iPhone / iPad 2 hands-on!

Apple iOS 5 iPhone / iPad 2 hands-on!.

iOS 5 Beta now available for developers

Windows CE Base Team Blog : Application Compatibility in Windows CE 6.0

Windows CE Base Team Blog : Application Compatibility in Windows CE 6.0.

Post detailing backwards compatibility issues for running CE5 code on CE6.

VS2010: Silverlight 4 profiling – Visual Studio Profiler Team Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs

VS2010: Silverlight 4 profiling – Visual Studio Profiler Team Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.

A step-by-step howto for profiling Silverlight apps.

Apple – Press Info – Apple Q&A on Location Data

Apple – Press Info – Apple Q&A on Location Data.

“The iPhone is not logging your location. Rather, it’s maintaining a database of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers around your current location, some of which may be located more than one hundred miles away from your iPhone, to help your iPhone rapidly and accurately calculate its location when requested.” 

In pursuit of code quality: Monitoring cyclomatic complexity

In pursuit of code quality: Monitoring cyclomatic complexity.

Some interesting snippets:

…What’s interesting here is that we were able to spot this defect using cyclomatic complexity rather than code coverage. Code coverage indicated we were done after one test case, but CC forced us to write an additional one. Not bad, eh?

Luckily, the method under test in this case only had a CC of 2. Imagine if that defect were buried in a method with a CC of 102. Good luck finding it!

…As demonstrated above, cyclomatic complexity is a good indicator of code complexity; moreover, it’s an excellent barometer for developer testing. A good rule of thumb is to create a number of test cases equal to the cyclomatic complexity value of the code being tested. In the case of the updatePCensus() method seen in Figure 2, you would need 114 test cases to achieve full coverage.

BBC News – iPhone tracks users movements

BBC News – iPhone tracks users movements.

Apple iPhones and 3G iPads are secretly recording and storing details of all their owners’ movements, researchers claim.

Location data is kept in a hidden, unencrypted file, but is this file accessible from any app on the phone?

The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code – Joel on Software

The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code – Joel on Software.

Give your team 1 point for each “yes” answer. 

A score of 12 is perfect, 11 is tolerable, but 10 or lower and you’ve got serious problems. The truth is that most software organizations are running with a score of 2 or 3, and they need serious help, because companies like Microsoft run at 12 full-time.

How do we score?

Android to power 50% smartphones: Gartner – The Times of India

Android to power 50% smartphones: Gartner – The Times of India.

Android to hit 50% before the end of 2012, iOS just retains 2nd this year, but slips behind Microsoft in 2015 as the Nokia relationship bears fruit.

Microsoft reveals WinPhone 7 Mango details • The Register

Microsoft reveals WinPhone 7 Mango details • The Register.

Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled changes in the version of Windows Phone codenamed Mango that will crack open the operating system so devs can finally work with smart-phones’ camera data, compass and gyro, pivot and panorama, geo-location, ringtones and users’ contacts, and TCP/IP sockets