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Windows Phone AppHub Certification Failure – 6.4.1

– July 24, 2011

If you’re like me, submitting apps to the AppHub for certification is like watching a pot of water boil. I just sit there and wait….and wait….and wait….and then BANG, FAIL! I have had an application fail for the second time due to media interaction with the phone. Now granted, I’ll give Microsoft some credit here, they are trying to protect the user experience. However, I’m developing my applications to comply with the requirements listed here and they are inconsistent.

My latest failure for certification on the AppHub was requirement 6.4.1 which is related to an app being in the Music + Videos Hub: “The application functionality must be related to video and/or music media playback.” The problem is I don’t want my app to be in the Music + Videos Hub, but it got assigned there by default.

Why was my app assigned to the Music + Videos Hub? To figure this out I had to go into the 6.4 section overview which states: “When an application calls the MediaHistory or  MediaHistoryItem classes, it is considered to be a Music + Videos Hub application…” Now in my application I do NOT even call those classes! However, I noticed those classes belonged to Microsoft.Devices namespace and I had a couple calls to the Microsoft.Devices.Radio class within that namespace. So I decided to try an experiment and remove those calls to the Radio class and ALL the Microsoft.Devices references in my code.

Bingo! It worked! The AppHub no longer shows Music + Videos Hub when I upload my XAP file!

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How To Create A Website from A to Zzz – Part 2

– July 23, 2011

Build a Website from A to Zzz – Part 2

In Part 1 of, “How To Create A Website from A to Zzz“, we posed the question what if you were given a step-by-step, recipe format set of instructions that if followed to the letter, would leave you with an up and running, fully functional website that is ready to go?  If you liked the idea then it is most likely the reason you made it this far.

Since we are talking about creating a website from scratch, we need two main ingredients.  A domain name and a hosting plan.  You could do the hosting yourself, but even if you know what you were doing, it takes a 24/7 dedicated pc and a rather expensive internet connection that has good upload speed.  Even if you have high speed internet, typically the service has great download speed (to your browser) …. but the upload speed  typically sucks.  This would make for a rather poor experience from the website surfers point of view.  We all have been to those websites that take forever for the information to download into your browser and this is normally due to their server having slooow upload capabilities.

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Why Was My Google Adwords Account Suspended – ClickBank?

– July 15, 2011

Like many of you out there, I wanted to take advantage of the power of Google Adwords PPC (Pay Per Click for noobies) to generate passive income. It is an impressive feat to know that every click was going to be someone interested in the product I was promoting!

Here was the model I was after: Pay X cents per click, such that a 1% sales rate of the product would pay for the entire campaign. It’s a very simple model and very achievable, especially for products that are selling well. I chose to use ClickBank since their reputation was excellent for having numerous products to choose to promote.

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June 2011 – Cash Flow Report

– July 11, 2011

June was a pretty good month for business, and some key initiatives really started paying off!

Milestones

  • With the usage of Article Marketing Robot we were able to boost traffic to all our niche sites!
  • More Windows Phone app sales steadily helped this month too!
  • Affiliate sales starting taking off!
  • Purchase of Instant Passive Profits has been amazing!

Lastly, a good earnings report would not be complete without showing the expenses. For if we just show revenues then it would seem like online business is all profit, and that’s NOT true!

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