Using Flickr in .NET applications

Currently I’m working on a cool project, where I need to show some nice photos, just for some visual effects. And sure, the first thing I thought, where could I get cool photos? Sure, somewhere on the internet. But that can be tricky, since finding images on web is not that simple, there are license problems, images can be in poor quality, etc. ...

Locating Windows Mobile phone without GPS

We all know apps like Google Maps Mobile, Microsoft’s Bing equivalent, Nokia Maps, etc. In every app you have option to locate yourself, even if you don’t have GPS or it’s turned off. The only thing you need is quite good signal and access to Internet. ...

Translations in .NET Applications

In developing applications we all came to the point, when it would be nice, to have some kind of translations, let it be user interface translations, maybe some user input data, that needs to be instantly translated, etc. There are millions of use cases how we could create better ...

My new business cards

A month ago I have created brand new business cards, first truly mine. I was thinking about design, which would be similar to my webpage, simple to recognize and easy to read, but still with just a little bit of custom touch. First I was thinking about ordering them through ...

BlogEngine with simple gallery

Image via Wikipedia

Are you a user of BlogEngine.NET? If you don’t know that engine yet, it’s quite cool engine written in ASP.NET for obvious purpose, blogs.
I love this engine, because it is very nicely written, so it’s a pace of cake to extend it for your own needs. There are lots of ...

Create cheap backup for your home server

For years I’ve been running home server (actually since 2002) without any backup at all. I guess I was lucky, since in that time, only one machine failed, but it was only a motherboard. So all the data was still on my disks. But since machine is getting old (actually current server is almost 10 years old :)) and I’m running more and more sites on it, I’m getting more paranoid about hard disk failure. ...

Developing for iPhone with C#

Image by Jb Evain via Flickr

In previous post we took a look how to develop for Symbian devices with C#, so now it’s time to take a look at the hottest smartphone on market, yeah, that’s iPhone. 

So normally, when you start developing for iPhone, you will need to do some steps:...

Developing for Symbian with C#

So, as you know, Windows Mobile is not the most popular platform for smart phones. Based on last Gartner report, Nokia still holds the biggest market share on smartphones market, almost half of it! ...

How to start developing for Windows Mobile (part 3)

OK, it’s been a while since I wrote part 2, but here it is, part 3! In this part we will take a look in one very easy example for Windows Mobile Standard (or better for non-touch screen devices).
I’ve created Countdown Timer...

Read full article here.
My new blog is shelastyle.net.

Java application and MS SQL Server

It just happened to me, that I need to write some Java application, which will use Microsoft SQL Server Express 2005. OK, in Java world, you have only two options (realistically only one, but let’s not bother with that now):...

New projects!

So, I’ve been kind a busy lately. I’m working on some projects, been a little bit on vacation and thinking about some more projects :)

Anyway, first project,that is (partly) already online is QuickDial, which is site meant to be your homepage with your favorite pages on it. You can check more in ...

How to start developing for Windows Mobile (part 2)

In part 1 I was writing what we need for development, what are differences and some basic stuff about .NET Compact Framework.

Now let’s take a look at developing our application. As mentioned, we will use Visual Studio 2008 (current release in time of writing) with already installed Windows Mobile SDKs. So, you start with crating new project (...

How to start developing for Windows Mobile (part 1)

So, you just bought a brand new Windows Mobile phone* and got a killer idea for application,you would like to have. But … how to create it? Well, there is a very simple way, and it’s called .NET Framework...

Some new blog posts

Yeah, I wrote some interesting stuff lately, eg. how to include remote HTML in ASP.NET.
I was also invited to a exhibition, where I did technical part of installation. Hope it went all well.

So, change your bookmarks to my new blog (and site) – www.shelastyle.net, if you haven’t done so :) Thanks for reading!

New blog!

Hey folks! I have put up my own site, so I’m leaving this blog and switching to my new blogging platform :) I have put up my own server with GraffitiCMS system on, design my own theme and that’s it :)

So, please change your links to

www.shelastyle.net

Thanks!