Jun 14, 2010 — Fluent Ribbon and Prism — I would like to show an example of application that is about how to use Fluent Ribbon control together with Prism (aka Composite WPF). Our team is using this combination for some time already; although, with various degrees of success:... Read more

May 21, 2010 — Got new hardware - part 1 — I have new monitor: Dell UltraSharp 2209WA. What I like: Slick design. Breathes style and functionality. Panel: IPS. Crisp visual elements. Wonderful colors. Functionality: adjustable height, portrait mode, USB hubs. Brightness is set to 12% and it’s well enough. Working... Read more

Apr 14, 2010 — Microsoft TechDays 2010, Geneva. Day 1 — A small write up about my experience at TechDays 2010, Geneva, Switzerland. Kind of random thoughts and superficial impressions about visited sessions. Windows Azure platform Depending on your requirements can be a cost efficient deployment option. Not sure about development... Read more

Apr 12, 2010 — How to reference platform specific (x86/x64) assemblies in Visual Studio projects — Let’s say you have a third party library that you want to reference from your project. By default platform target in Visual Studio is “Any CPU”. But the library is compiled for specific target – x86 or x64. When you’re... Read more

Mar 15, 2010 — All is starting with a CV — I had to review few tens of CV lately. A very interesting pattern emerged when we looked at the CVs that were taken to next level - preliminary interviews. Almost all selected CVs were well written, had little to no... Read more

Feb 7, 2010 — Software quality for everyone — Have just read another definition of what is software quality on Jeremy D. Miller’s blog: defining software quality as the structural qualities of code structure that enable a team to be productive within that codebase for an extended amount of... Read more

Jan 31, 2010 — Have been in the aliens camp. Twice... — Recently, in my desire to learn something new and get closer to local community of software developers, I have visited few meetings of Java User Group in Lausanne. You may ask, what can attract a .NET developer in Java community?... Read more

Jan 25, 2010 — Intro to Usability — I just finished watching a video about basics of Usability. Before, I’ve read few articles and blog posts on the topic , but this video gives a nice introduction in Usability basics and Usability Testing so that I’ll save it... Read more

Dec 21, 2009 — NHibernate 3.0 will be a very nice release — First of all, Steve Strong made a Christmas gift to community by presenting a new Linq implementation for NHibernate, which is now incorporated in the trunk. Kudos for a such great work! Another valuable addition to NHibernate is the [QueryOver... Read more

Dec 2, 2009 — WPF LOB samples — … more a note for myself Found a discussion that gives a few very nice examples of WPF applied in real world, line-of-business applications: WPF LOB samples. I can’t stop be amazed by what degree of flexibility WPF is giving... Read more