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Following on last month’s discussion of media queries, Brandon Satrom looks at the other two pillars of responsive Web design—fluid grids and flexible images. Media Queries are the engines that drive responsive, adaptive sites, but they are only effective when the designs of those sites are also responsive and adaptive. This month, I'll introduce you to some ideas around the other two pillars of "Responsive Web Design." I'll start with an overview of some up-and-coming CSS Layout modules, and then talk about some techniques for making non-textual elements like images and embedded video adaptive as well.

As an introduction to Windows Phone development with Apache Cordova, HTML5 and JavaScript, Colin Eberhardt follows a Model-View-ViewModel approach with KnockoutJS to walk you through building a Twitter Search application.

Go behind the curtain with Stan Chatman to see how he transformed his popular Hollywood Empire game app from an Android version to the Windows Phone platform.

Charles Petzold looks into streaming audio on Windows Phone. This occurs through a class derived from MediaStreamSource, which feeds the audio data to the OS's audio player on demand. Petzold shows how to stream audio in the background on Windows Phone OS 7.5.

In Part 1 of this article you learned how to work with orientation changes on the Windows Phone and how to create horizontally scrolling pages using Panorama and Pivot pages. In Part 2 you’ll see how to interact with some of the built-in applications on the phone through the use of the Launcher and Chooser applications.

Your first Windows Phone application should be interesting, but not so complex you’ll get bogged down. Jesse Liberty walks you through a simple yet handy application that touches on many aspects of building good-looking and useful XAML-based Windows Phone applications.

Spend time up front designing your app, Mark Hopkins advises, and you’ll save time in the coding process and reap rewards in the Windows Phone Marketplace.

Windows Phone 7.5 devices can have both back and front cameras. Matt Stroshane introduces the camera APIs and associated capabilities and discusses a few ways you can use a camera in your next Windows Phone 7.5 app.

This is a port of Invasion (originally posted on CodeProject by Mauricio Ritter) to Windows Phone 7 (with some enhancements).

Introduction to XNA game development for Windows Phone - Includes XNAImage, image manipulation for XNA