Category: Programming

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…

Lighthouse – Silverlight Unit Test Runner Project released

Unit Testing in Silverlight? But you need Web Browser to do that! No you do not! Ok maybe you do. But not in a direct way. I will clarify that later. Lets first go back in time to the root of the story: Since the initial release of Silverlight i was really annoyed by the fact that Unit Testing had very slim support. Even later when Silverlight Unit Testing Framework was introduced by Microsoft things became little better but still it was far from good. You could create Unit Tests, but you had to start your Visual Studio in order…

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…