In today's Mobile Monday post we're highlighting a project by Paul DeCarlo and the team behind the WinAppKits set of API's, which we highlighted here,Mash Windows 8 Store Apps, public web service API's and some starter kit code together and you have... "APIMASH Starter Kits". This time it's not an API, well it is, kind of, but instead a cool looking cross platform kit and hands on lab...

Here's the above mentioned videos

Besides the videos, the PPTX is a quick way to get a look at this project, https://github.com/winappkits/XPlatformCloudKit/blob/master/XPlatformCloudkit.pptx

So I grabbed the latest drop and it just worked. I love when that happens...

Here's the RSS feeds used for the initial code;

Because that's just not good enough for me, I replaced all the feeds with stuff about me and, bam, I had a working "Greg's World" Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 app. How cool is that!

One thing to note: During your dev, you should probably disable the data cache. This messed me up a bit as I was adding new RSS feeds but that app wasn't picking them up... As soon as I disabled cache, all my feeds were there. When you're ready to release the app, then return the value to 60+ minutes'ish.