Getting free advertising for WP7 apps

If you've got apps in the WP7 UK marketplace you have the chance to be included in the Nokia and Microsoft ad campaign, more info can be found here. We (Rich, Nick & I) had FINDaPAD put forward - thanks Matt.

The ad campaign started a couple of days ago and we're being featured with an in-app banner and entry on the app highlights in the marketplace:

We're already seeing great results, our daily download rates for the app have tripled in the first 2 days of the campaign :)

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Chocolatey makes installing easy...

Just been building a new Win8 image and I thought I would use Chocolatey to install the apps I typically use for development, you know things like Notepad++, 7Zip, Sysinternals, PuTTY, msysgit...

I got to say Chocolatey is awesome great!

I can't believe the .Net Windows community hadn't got round to this before...

Once Chocolatey is installed it's really simple to get stuff installed, simple as typing one line in PS:

Chocolatey will download the required package\installer and run what ever is required to get it installed, e.g. this is Chocolatey download loading and installing ILMerge:

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