Free Apple Development e-books

Apple is offering up the following free e-books in their iOS device book store.

• iOS Human Interface Guidelines
• Object Oriented Programming With Objective-C
• Cocoa Fundamentals Guide
• The Objective-C Programming Language
• iOS Technology Overview
• iOS Application Programming Guide

Source: http://www.macworld.com/article/156499/2010/12/apple_developer_ebooks.html?lsrc=nl_mwweek_h_cbstories

WP7 physical keyboard use

If you are working on WP7 development, you will find that the emulator does not respond to the physical keyboard on your development system by default. That is because not all WP7 phones have keyboards, while others do. This link shows how to simulate the sliding keyboard and how the keys are mapped.