3 months ago I ended my work as a part-time freelancer and started to work at a new company in the south of Vienna: riag.digital So a lot of new things to learn in different areas, people to meet, find…
Most recent update from MS broke calendar apps (again)
10/07/2016 – Update: Today the built in MS calendar was updated to version 17.7369.40738.0. Creating and deleting appointments from other apps now works again. At the moment I get many emails from users of my app Week View that creating…
Hololens Hackaton
Last weekend I had the opportunity to play around with Microsoft HoloLens at a hackathon in Vienna. What a cool piece of technilogy! As a team, we built „HoloDefense“-Tetris Style 🙂 which basically is a tower defense game, inspired by…
Mobile Development :)
That’s how my desk looks at the moment (some windows phones are in the drawers) 🙂
Why MS are you making it so hard to create useful apps?
TL;TR Don’t try to create an UWP app that tries to access emails. This is not allowed for „common developers“. Idea for a new app: Show preview of emails on a live tile Today I got a suggestion from a user of…
Observing mercury transit on 9th May, 2016
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…
My thoughts about project Islandwood (windows bridge for iOS)
Recently I had the opportunity to test the windows bridge for iOS (codename Islandwood) for a customer to try converting a real world iOS application to the universal windows platform. According to MS this should be quite simple and they have an example,…
Upgrading Xamarin with an existing Visual Studio Installation
At the „Build 2016“ conference, 2 days ago it was announced the Xamarin will be available for all Visual Studio editions, even the free Community Edition. In my opinion the greatest news of this years Build conference for app developers! If…
Live Tile Calendar 10 on HoloLens
Yesterday the Emulator for HoloLens was released, could not wait to see my App „Live Tile Calendar 10“ running on it! 🙂 …now I guess…I need a „real device“, too bad they cost $3000, hey MS will you send me…
Xamain for free now!
Yeah, announced a few moments ago at MS Build 2016: Xamarin will be for free now, even for Visual Studio Community Edition Users. This changes A LOT for all app developers, I expect better VS Integration and great support for…