Software Development Guidelines

This is a really good summary of everything in software development guiding principles.The Principles of Good Programming

SOLID Software Development Priniciples

Generaly reading around today, led me to this excelent pdf about SOLID.
Solid Software Development Principals SOLID I have read it all before and act on it. But its always good to remind myself. Also on one of my previous contracts I was acting as Software Development mentor, and when I mentioned SOLID I got a bunch of blank stares. This document would have been useful then.

The Hackers Diet

The Hackers Diet is the source of inspiration for LostKilo.
The calculations used are the sme as the ones represented here .

Adding missing DLL's to WP 7.1 Application

I had a missing dll in the phone app today. This blog post was were I was trying to get a resolution. I am not there yet. But I want to record this link here for reference tomorrow.
http://www.scottseely.com/Blog/11-05-08/Adding_the_lsquo_other_rsquo_WP7_Libraries_to_your_VS_2010.aspx

This did not resolve the issue. I also tried adding ALL thsoe dlls as references, and it still did not resolve the issue. I think I may have to re-create the dev environment.

scales

I need to set the bottom and left hand scale for the chart. I was thinking of setting the kilos scale to be the maximum weight + 10 kilos and the minimum to be the minimum weight minus 10. But motivationally, I think it may be better to see the weight scale go down to the weight where you are heading.
In addition to this, eventually, setting the target weight will mean the scale has to accommodate the targeted weight, and date.
All items should be available through the settings.

OpenId

In the several pre-development stage of LostKilo, I used OpenId. I would like to contunue using it, as it has advantages to the user and to me, I feel its a win win situation. Here is some sample code on implementing OpenId in mvc. This means all I have to save in my database is the user email.

Modal Dialog Choice

Here is an article about modal dialogs to be used with the ASP.NET MVC stuff. It is not a very good article. I have used the jQuery UI block and many others. I am going to collect some information about these here.

There is a thread on StackOverflow but it doesnt say much. David Wiliams has some explanation here.