As a hobby astronomer of course I observed the mercury transit on 9th May, 2016. I was watching the small planet mercury (about 1/3 the size of our earth) while it was passing in front of our home star, the sun. I…
Yeah – let’s do some Xamarin development!
Last month Xamarin had a great offer for independent windows phone developers: Provide access to their ‚Business license‘ for free, please see: https://blog.xamarin.com/free-xamarin-subscriptions-for-windows-phone-developers/ Some time ago I created smaller apps for android using Java and Eclipse but these were quite…
Final version of Visual Studio 2015 available – no windows 10 development
When the final Version of Visual Studio 2015 was released yesterday (07/20) I downloaded it, uninstalledVS2015 RC and installed the new version the same day. 🙂 Yeah – a developer’s favorite tool in the newest, shiny version! What do you…
Androidification of windows phone
As written below the most recent windows phone 10 preview introduced many design changes. While the OS is really far from final, the design changes at least show in which direction MS is going with windows phone. Of course it’s my personal…
Modern design?
How to confuse your users, a guideline by MS: 1. Create a new modern design language, call it „Metro„, don’t check if this may be a problem, later rename it to „modern design“. 2. Create UI design guidelines for it…
Window phone INTERNAL calendar has a major bug after the last update from MS
Update: Please also check the comments on WPCentral according to this problem: http://www.wpcentral.com/native-calendar-app-windows-phone-81-updated Update 2: I got a reply from MS support according to this problem on a developer forum: They are aware of the problem and working on a fix,…
Charging but still working…
Look, what i found yesterday, when the company i am working for decided to throw away some old hardware 🙂 The phone on the right is my „old“ Samsung Omnia 7, running my fun app Nokia 3310. I will insert…
Does a ‚graphical week representation‘ make sense?
Sometimes i get emails with the suggestion: „Please add a graphical representation of the current week to ‚Week View‚, like the one that MS Outlook has“. While i agree that a graphical week view like outlook makes sense on a…
Windows phone live tile issues
In my opinion the windows phone platform is great in kind of development tools and also user experience. When working extensively with an platform you also learn about it’s bugs and limitations. One of this limitations has to do with…
About me and this blog
hi, i am a developer from austria, you can find some more information about me at the ‚about me‚ page. So why another blog and why does a developer from austria blog in english? The reason is: to get in…