I started looking more seriously into Android development, especially after a great training session with Mark Murphy organized by Chicago Android. Right now I am experimenting with simple user interfaces (buttons, lists, etc) and learning how to utilize various phone’s sensors. What’s caught my at... [More]

This is a continuation of my earlier blog post regarding asynchronous operations in .NET. We are now going to discuss the various ways of issuing and receiving results from asynchronous requests. There are three main ways of issuing an asynchronous request and later receiving the result. They are d... [More]

Lately I have been doing a lot of asynchronous development. At work I’m designing a trading API that is very asynchronous in nature, and in my spare time I have been messing around with Silverlight. I would like to share a few different patterns for retrieving data asynchronously that I have encoun... [More]

For my birthday my parents got me a USB rock. My dad made it himself. It's the greatest thing! I took it to work, connected it to the USB port on the side of my monitor, and let me tell you - it's causing quite a stir. People stop by my cube and are asking questions about it. Here are some of my sto... [More]

Something I just thought of for my new mobile project: I also want to reuse as much code as I can between the WP7 and Android solutions. The code sharing part is what in my opinion will be most complicated. It seems like the two "camps" couldn't be further apart, and that there are no com... [More]

Trying to decide whether I should concentrate on Android or on Windows Phone 7. Would be cool to do a simple projects for both platforms to learn more about them. [More]

Wisdoms gained during my EuroTrip [More]

Despite my earlier blog post, I decided to take part in the "sexiest" mortgage calculator contest after all. It seemed like a perfect excuse to give Silverlight 3 a try. The end result may not be the sexiest (I'm a developer, not a designer), but I think it’s fairly functional. Actually, I wis... [More]

Some snaps I took today while shopping with my Nokia phone. Not so good quality, but still pretty cool =))

By the magic of Twitter I learned from sizeof about a contest for the “sexiest mortgage calculator”. While my graphics skills leave much to wish for and I won’t participate, I found some cool links for mortgage calculators out there. I wish I knew about these when I was buying a ho... [More]