May 25, 2011 — Quick tip - if Git can't find your global config... — If you’ve put (or want to put) your .gitconfig in your home directory (C:\Users\username\) and git cannot find it you may try to add a user variable called HOME and set it to %USERPROFILE%. See screenshot for details: Useful commands:... Read more

May 18, 2011 — New day, new adventures - Samsung Omnia 7 and 7392 update for WP7 — I’ve been glad to see that Microsoft started again rolling out the 7392 update for Omnia 7. We, geeks, are loving updates. It gets us more stability and new features. And bugs, sometimes… The 7392 is a minor one, it... Read more

May 6, 2011 — Me developer - "I'm done"; me designer - "wait a minute..." — As most of developers working in a small teams or projects I have to work on UI. Should it be a new screen, complete feature with some UI interactions or just a fix of some font/alignment/style issues. When you’re in... Read more

Apr 28, 2011 — Nostalgy. My early days as a software developer ... — Something brought up old memories from the days when I’ve been working in Embedded Systems development. I’m third from the left… The “big thing” in the back is a Diesel engine stripped from a big ship. Converted to an internal... Read more

Apr 27, 2011 — Improving writing skills — Writing is (still) one of the important skills for anybody engaged in IT. I wrote about it more than one year ago when I had to go over a bunch of CVs. I haven’t changed my mind since and it’s... Read more

Apr 13, 2011 — MIX11 day two, Windows Phone 7 announcements — I’ve bee watching Channel 9 with WP7 announcements and there are very interesting things that are coming to the platform, both developer and end-user oriented. In no particular order, with my comments: Jump list (on letters using LongListSelector) and app search directly in application... Read more

Apr 12, 2011 — MIX11's first day keynote on Web Platform. My impressions... — Web technologies are one of gray areas in my career as a professional Software Engeneer. Historically, since I started working closely with .NET platform (2004 I think) I’ve been involved in server side and desktop development, my last mile in user interactions were WinForms, WPF... Read more

Mar 9, 2011 — Working with named branches using TortoiseHg 2.0. An illustrated workflow — Disclaimer: I’ve wrote this guide for my teammates that started diving in Mercurial. They came with Subversion background and after looking how they are working with Mercurial I wanted to show them one of more flexible workflows. It’s not a... Read more

Feb 21, 2011 — How we get inspiration... — That’s interesting to observe how we’re getting influenced by things around us. How world we see and experience is determining what and how we do. Most of the time we’re not sensing the source of our actions and decisions. It’s... Read more

Jan 18, 2011 — The best User Group meeting I've attended so far - Geneva JUG on Scala & Akka — Today’s meeting of Geneva JUG was the most entertaining User Group meeting I’ve attended. Excellent speakers, great topics, mind-blowing ideas… Iulian Dragos had an introductory talk about Scala. This isn’t my first meeting with Scala, but today I’ve “got it”... Read more