Dec 9, 2011 — Using WP7's ProgressIndicator with Caliburn.Micro — The Windows Phone SDK 7.1 introduced a new control to show the progress of long operations or interactions, ProgressIndicator. As I love much the Caliburn.Micro framework I got some time to integrate neatly ProgressIndicator with the rest of application and... Read more

Nov 16, 2011 — Using WCF without configuration files — I have recently published new project on GitHub, WcfWithoutConfigFile. This post is intended as a ‘readme’ file for this repository. It’s just a collection of simple projects that I’ve put together when a coworker asked me to show how he... Read more

Nov 15, 2011 — The Life After Silverlight 5 — There is a lot of panic in Microsoft eco-system caused by some rumors that Silverlight 5 will be the last of the family. Developers are crying about skills being buried and managers fearing about the future of in-house enterprise apps.... Read more

Sep 21, 2011 — Cultural differences... — Today I’ve been helping a coworker to bootstrap new project. Nothing fancy: ASP.NET site hosting WCF services, few POCOs and Entity Framework in Code First mode to persist them all. Interesting moment came when he wanted to see if his... Read more

Sep 13, 2011 — How to make Caliburn.Micro and Silverlight resources in MergedDictionaries play nicely together — I’ve fixed an error in our codebase that prevented Caliburn’s bootstrapper and application resources to live happily together. That was manifesting like warnings in xaml about missing resources and styles, no right styles in Visual Studio designer and so on.... Read more

Sep 9, 2011 — TortoiseHG and JIRA integration - the lightweight option — You can integrate JIRA and TortoiseHG Workbench at two levels: Only highlight the issue in your revision details and allow quickly open it in browser Connect to your JIRA and show the list of issues with all filters, view details... Read more

Jul 3, 2011 — Why Java always feels unnatural to Windows? — I’m looking now at Java’s update application that wants to offer me latest version of it: the progress dialog has fonts remembering about the times of Windows 95 it’s impossible to move the dialog window clicking on close button has... Read more

Jun 23, 2011 — Packing for vacation, preparing Kindle — Loaded fresh stuff from Amazon: Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules Zero Day: A Novel The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel Waiting in the queue, if previous items will be done or... Read more

Jun 5, 2011 — Integration of Caliburn.Micro and Telerik's Silverlight controls — I’ve wrote already about how to use Telerik’s RadTabControl with Caliburn.Micro and profit from Caliburn’s conventions. That post is still getting considerable attention in my blog and also there are people are asking in Caliburn’s discussion list about such kind... Read more

May 31, 2011 — Quick tip - Configure TeamCity 6.5 to run a personal build when you've committed to a branch — This feature is well enough to upgrade your TeamCity to latest 6.5. Of course, if you’re using a DVCS (Git or Mercurial) and use feature branches. As feature branches can be active for a longer time and last few dozens... Read more