In my previous post I complained about the 6 day delay in getting download number from Microsoft.  Since then I have done a little bit of research into other ways of getting that information in a more timely manner.  I found two good options MTIKS and Flurry.  They both provide much more information than I was looking for from Microsoft, and I will be using one or the other unless I find something better.

Warning, this is going to be a bit of a rant, but it’s been driving me crazy for a little while.

If you’re following along (and chances are no one is) you know that I recently released my first app for Windows Phone. Since then, I have been following the apps progress in downloads and ad revenue through Microsoft’s provided reporting tools on both PubCenter and AppHub. The reports are pretty decent for the most part, and give me the data I’m looking for except for 1 things. The lag in data.

I was getting this error when using WCF Data Services and trying to save an update to an object.  After quite a bit of googling, I found a work around that I didn’t like.  Allow the users write access to the .svc file.

I have a hard time believing that anyone would accept “allow the user write access to the file” as an answer in web situation.  In my case I was able to use that as a temporary fix because the website in question was internal and behind a firewall, but I knew there had to be a better answer.

Seriously, Scott Hanselman, one of the premier software development bloggers and all around dev guru, asked me to blog.  He wrote a whole blog post about how important he thought it was that I start blogging.  It seems he really thinks I have something to add to the conversation, and that someday he will find answers to some of his questions when a Google search turns up my blog.

Today was a big day in my life as a developer.  I added the most important feature to my application.  This is the first time I have ever added a feature of such magnitude to an application I wrote as a side project.  You might be wondering what this wonderful feature of which I speak?

SHIPPING!!!