• I Owe My Success to the United States Government
  
• The LoadJpeg Advantage on Windows Phone
  
• Appearing at Ada's Technical Books
  
• Give us Feedback on my Windows Phone Book
  

On December 16, 1960, my father, age 35, was killed in an aircraft disaster as he flew home from a business trip. I was seven years old, my brother was six, and my sister was two.

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Windows Phone includes a class named Extensions in the System.Windows.Media.Imaging namespace that contains two extension methods for WriteableBitmap named LoadJpeg and SaveJpeg. The first one loads a JPEG from a Stream into a WriteableBitmap, and the second saves the contents of a WriteableBitmap to a Stream.

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I am happy to announce that I am the Author of the Month at Ada's Technical Books in Seattle, and I will be appearing there this Thursday, July 14th at 7:00 PM to speak a bit and (I hope) sign some books.

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Gosh, it seems like just last year I was working on my free ebook Programming Windows Phone 7, and now they tell me I have to revise the entire book because Windows Phone 7 is going to be superseded by Windows Phone 7.1.

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