Category: Certification

Offline Browser for Windows Phone is released

  Here is some good news: finally my Windows Phone application Offline Browser is available for download in the Windows Phone Marketplace! Offline Web Browser? But who needs that? Well actually i do. To be honest app was created (as many other apps) in order ‘to scratch an itch‘. I’m an old information junkie and while traveling to work i like reading books and surfing the web, but often i don’t have internet connection or its very slow (for example when I’m in the subway). Although there are many excellent E-Book readers for Windows Phone (one of the best is…

Microsoft Silverlight 4 Certification, is it worth the ride?

Now some good news folks: I received the confirmation that I successfully passed the Silverlight 4 Microsoft Certification. I was too busy to immediately brag about it and write a show-off post so I will here just quickly share my thoughts on how all this went before my brain moves these impressions to non-accessible-memory-banks-prepared-for-deletion. First of all I must admit that I was pretty sceptical about the whole certification thing. I’m not big fan of certifications in general and I find it a bit overrated – who cares about fancy printouts people are framing on their walls. You either know how…