Tech Blog of Li Gao

My iPhone app – iDueDay count down

Li Gao — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:21:30 +0000

I wrote this simple iPhone app for fun and also for my family:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/idueday-count-down/id327153012?mt=8

iDueDay is a tool that will easily count down to a list of specific days. You can add and view list of due days in a chronological order.

In addition you can use different colors to categorize the due days.

- To add a new due day, you can simply enter a name, assign a category color, and specify the due date.

- To view the list of existing due dates. Go to the “List my due days” screen. The list will show all of your defined due days in a chronological order from older dates to newer (future) dates

- To modify an existing due day, select it in the list and choose Edit to change its name, color, and due date. You can also delete it from this screen if you no longer need it

Learning iPhone and Cocoa-Objective-C development from a .Net/C# background is quite interesting experiences.

Making iPhone apps :)

Li Gao — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:51:32 +0000

I am starting to do some occasional development on iPhone apps since I got my iPhone 3GS.

Will post more details once they get approved by Apple.

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 this week

Li Gao — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:54:38 +0000

It has been a while since I last updated my tech blog here. I will start posting new articles focusing on the new Silverlight 2. I am busy experimenting with the SL 2 in the last several weeks. Despite some bugs, the technology looks promising and far capable than the SL 1.0 released last year.

Stay tuned.

Visual Studio 2008 RTM this month (November)

Li Gao — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:40:22 +0000

In case missed the news today, it is according to Microsoft that Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 will be released this month. The link to this news is here.

This is a major step forward for the WPF/XAML developers because the inclusion of “Cider” — The much improved visual layout and designer support inside Visual Studio. Hope the release of VS 2008 will drive the adoption rate of WPF and XAML-based markup systems higher.

I will report more on new and improved features in WPF 3.5 once I can get a final release copy of VS 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5.

Stay tuned.

Nibbles Blend/WPF/XAML Tutorial site

Li Gao — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:00:28 +0000

For those of you who are still new to the world of Blend/WPF/XAML, here is a nice collection of tutorials on the Nibble’s site:

http://www.nibblestutorials.net/

As for the lack of recent updates on this blog, I’ve been busy working on some internal middle-ware framework that are no-less amazing than WPF. It is good to see the WPF and especially XAML is attracting more attentions from the development community, even the Java/Eclipse community. Take a look at the eFace XAML engine for Java/Eclipse, you will see that the mark-up and declarative programming methodology is making ways into more traditional development worlds.

This is also happening to the middle-ware applets I am working on now. From Spring.Net, Castle/Windsor, we see more development approaches that adopt the MVC pattern and declarative ways of doing and implementing things. WPF is no exception here.

I will update more when I have more inspirations to share, not only limited to WPF or XAML anymore