Sep 29, 2010 — Flirting with Java community — Despite my enthusiasm about finding and participating in a regional .NET user group, the Alt.NET Suisse haven’t got enough traction to keep on rolling and now it’s actually not functioning. So, to keep my community-and-knowledge-hungry spirit quiet, I keep visiting... Read more

Sep 25, 2010 — Traditional toolbars and Ribbon bar — Dmitry Fadeyev is writing about icons in UI and the false sense of simplicity icons are giving us. While he is talking about it in the context of concrete application, it remembered me transition from “traditional” toolbars to Ribbon bar,... Read more

Sep 11, 2010 — Windows Phone 7 — When I’ve first heard about MS’s plans about it’s new mobile platform I was excited. The main reason it was the ability to develop mobile apps using known platform and tools: C#, Silverlight and Visual Studio. Ability to quick scratch... Read more

Aug 30, 2010 — One of the biggest problem in Software Development industry — … is that developers are often get paid to write code and not to push the product out of the door… They don’t have motivation to write good code, finish new feature, think about user’s experience or add one more... Read more

Aug 17, 2010 — Explaining Castle (note to myself) — Before even trying to explain to somebody what Castle Windsor container does be sure that other side understands the Dependency Injection principle - why it is important and what you’re achieving by using it. It’s important… And after explaining DI,... Read more

Aug 12, 2010 — Quote of the day — In technology, once you have bad programmers, you’re doomed. I can’t think of an instance where a company has sunk into technical mediocrity and recovered. Good programmers want to work with other good programmers. So once the quality of programmers... Read more

Aug 11, 2010 — Tomorrow will be a better day... — I know, it’s late, but this… FatalExecutionEngineError was detected Message: The runtime has encountered a fatal error. The address of the error was at 0xf8b96934, on thread 0x147c. The error code is 0xc0000005. This error may be a bug in... Read more

Aug 5, 2010 — Interesting pattern to decouple application parts and for integrating with other apps — Udi Dahan has written about an interesting way to evolve loosely-coupled application. It’s a very interesting trick and we’re already using it in our applications. And we’re using it for a very similar scenario: allowing to application modules and infrastructure... Read more

Jul 4, 2010 — Complexity is ok, complicated is bad — Watched presentation of Dan Norman at “Business of Software 2009” conference. Really enjoyed the talk. From my understanding, it’s about keeping in mind **human experience ** when working on software products and never stop thinking about your customers/users as a... Read more

Jun 19, 2010 — User experience and hardware updates — Had to install from zero a Dell notebook recently. Yes, my new development rig. Apart of Windows installation experience (very simplistic in essence & straightforward) had to install latest drivers for all notebook’s hardware. Typically, process looked like this: go... Read more