Posted by Mike Temporale of Smartphone Thoughts:

"Mobile applications require many of the same engineering considerations as other development paradigms but some areas such as deployment bring their own, unique challenges due to the very mobile nature of devices. During development of managed and native applications both Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Embedded Visual C deal with deployment to a device over Active Sync very adequately but much more is needed to distribute and manage final product deployment."

Marcus Perryman is the latest Microsoft employee to join the companies blogging initiative, and his first post couldn't be more helpful for new mobile developers. Check it out!

[Via Smartphone Thoughts]

Read the Deploying applications to Windows Mobile article...

The .NET Compact Framework Team is looking for feedback from developers on what they would like to see in future releases of the framework. Here is your chance to help shape the future of Windows Mobile from a developer point of view! Stop by the .NET Compact Framework Team blog for more information and details on how to submit your suggestion.

http://blogs.msdn.com/netcfteam/archive/2005/01/04/346372.aspx

Alex Yakhnin of OpenNETCF.org has posted list of his best .NetCF blog articles in 2004 - another one worth bookmarking if you are serious about development for Smartphones and Pocket PC.

As found on Windows Mobile Team blog entry that points to Nauman Leghari's blog which lists plenty of great SmartPhone Programming articles grouped nicely:  

• Introduction to the .NET Compact Framework
• The Smartphone User Interface
• Smartphone Controls
• Graphics
• Files and Directories
• Mobile Web Services
• Working with Unmanaged Code
• Deploying Smartphone Application
• Interoperability
• Game Programming with Smartphone
• Advanced Topics: Security, Debugging, Performance and such 

I recommend you bookmark this one if you ever intend on building an app or two for Windows Mobile.