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Windows Phone Dev Event in Zagreb
Last week was a great week for my user group FutureDEV – instead of a regular meeting, we have organized a small event on development for Windows Phone. At first we planned to do just another meeting, with me redelivering my NFC talk from WinDays… But no – I’ve mentioned that to our Nokia Developer […]
Long time no see
I obviously write posts in batches, so this is the first post in a new batch So, let me do a quick resume first. I’ve been quite busy with the WinDays conference at the end of the April. WinDays is the biggest IT conference in the region and I was very much involved this year […]
Backup to the cloud! With berries.
Off-site backups are always complicated. In my main development machine, I have an SSD with all the data, and the data is nightly copied to the RAID1 disks. That seams like a decent backup solution in the case of disk failure, but what if somebody steals my computer or the whole house burns to the […]
Speaking at MS Network in Teslić
Yes, I know, I don’t write enough here – but what can I do? I have such an interesting job I don’t have time to write about it more. I have like ten topics in the pipeline, but… first things first. Next week I’ll be at the MSNetwork conference in Teslić, Bosnia and Herzegovina. I […]
Moving from self-hosted Orchard to WordPress on Azure
Maybe you have noticed – and probably not – I’m moving my blog to another platform. I was using Orchard. It’s a nice piece of software, but I wanted to test Azure Web Sites with PHP and MySQL, so the WordPress seamed like the right choice. We’ll see :-) I’m still moving everything to the […]
Speaking at Vizija 10 in Skopje, Macedonia
So, I’ll be in Skopje at Vizija next week to talk a bit about Windows Phone. It is a hard thing to do these days, since we don’t know everything about the future version (launching on the Oct 29th), but we are allowed to know enough to make two sessions out of it. Windows Phone […]
My first Windows Store apps – published
There is more than 5.000 apps in the Windows Store, and two of them are made by yours truly. The first one was developed for Bosnian IT portal called HardwareBase. It is in Croatian language (at least officially) and it is basically a RSS reader. This is the first version and it lacks some of […]
So, how do we call Metro now?
This is going to be my shortest blog post ever. Metro/Modern are now Microsoft design style.Metro style apps on Windows 8 are called Windows Store apps.Windows Phone Marketplace is Windows Phone Store.Mind the casing! The source.
Conferences this Fall
I have like ten topics ready for my blog, but I don’t have time to write. That’s too bad, but I’ve been busy and this blog post will reveal one of the reasons. Conferences. At the beginning of the September I was part of the KulenDayz, not only as a speaker (I’ve talked about Contracts […]
I am the Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals Judge!
Do you know what the Imagine Cup is? You should. It’s a great student technology competition sponsored and organized by Microsoft for ten years now. Every year, around 350,000 students from 180 countries are part of this contents and only the best ones have an opportunity to participate in worldwide finals, this year in Sydney, […]
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