Software Development Make it fast "Make it work, make it right, make it fast" This sentence is attributed to Kent Beck, the creator of the Extreme Programming (XP) methodology. While "make it work" is
Software Development Setting up the new Windows Terminal I finally reactivated the Windows Insider fast ring on my Surface, to try out the new Windows Terminal. I must admit, I've rarely been that excited by a trailer for such a deeply
Software Development Solved querying problems between Airtable and Zapier Remember the 3rd problem mentioned in my previous post "No line of code was mishandled while writing this software"? After a few tries, I finally found a proper workaround for the
Software Development Create your own tweet-scheduler with Zapier and AirTable Here's another unconventional use case built with Airtable and Zapier: a retweet scheduler. Here are the scenarios it should fulfill: Save every of my own Tweet that matches a given query, in this
Software Development No line of code was mishandled while writing this software Drag & drop programming has been an ever fleeing dream like... ever. Every other years, someone comes up with a revolutionary idea that should change everything... and every single time, it fails miserably.
Software Development Make it right Imagine stepping into a foreign kitchen to prepare an enchanting diner. Compared to cooking at home, how fast are you likely to be? You may be a great cook but not knowing where
Software Development Make it work Once upon a time, there was a black chalk board in a dark room. The board carried remainders of countless creations. Diagrams that could pass as hieroglyphs for the non-educated eye. Or well
Software Development [Comics] Is there a programmer onboard? What does it mean to be a software developer anyway?
Software Development A short notification, moar numbers from the inside The last time I wrote about my (still) last app "a short notification" was on the 7th of September. Back then, I was reporting on the download numbers after ASN had
Software Development App of the day synopsis, "a short notification" on myappfree.it After a month and a half in the store, a short notification, my first paid Windows Phone 8.1 app, earned me a grand total of... nothing. I paid the app myself twice
Software Development Prompting a Windows Phone 8.1 user for a review While writing MiniReader for Instapaper (the introduction blogpost I wrote), I decided I wanted to display a popup to ask the user to review the app after some time (for instance after starting
Software Development A short notification, history and longer notifications Right after the first push of a short notification and the first post about it, I started adding new features. The two highlights of this new version are a history mechanism and longer-shorter
Software Development C# SimCity with SharpMetrics Do you ever think of software architecture? How would you represent the structure of a software? There are many ways to do this. One of which is using a city metaphor. Thomas Haug,
Software Development A short notification (sic) WinPhone App Here's to another app I've been willing to write for a while: a short notification. The idea is dead simple: Type a small text and push "send" on your phone. The
Software Development Simply.Write update for Windows 8.1 After almost a year without love for Simply.Write, I finally found the time to correct a few bugs and - more importantly - push out a Windows 8.1 version of it
Software Development Magex in the Dotnet Pro magazine After my first podcast in June, I had another first experience: seeing one of my articles on the cover of a magasine, and my picture on the summary page... humbling experience I must
Software Development Localization on WP8.1 As far as I understood - and for whatever reason MSDN is quite silent about this - in the switch between WP8 and WP8.1, the localization API of Windows RT changed. After
Software Development WebView.InvokeScriptAsync method Just because I banged my head against my desk trying to solve that one for a while tonight. I should have read the documentation a little bit more carefully in the first place.
Software Development PicsSort tiny update So young and already hopelessly colorful. I just pushed a new version of PicsSort to the Windows Phone 8 Store with absolutely... nothing new... almost. Beside the flashy colors and UI-Small revamp, I
Software Development PicsSort The year is still very new and I already have published a new App in the Windows Phone App Store: PicsSort. After switching from the iPhone to the Windows Phone world, I was
Software Development MiniReader for Instapaper v1.1 A few weeks ago, I swapped my iPhone 5 - which was starting to go awry - for a brand new Lumia 930, a Windows Phone 8. I came to realize that being
Software Development MiniReader MiniReader for Instapaper is the leanest Instapaper reader you can find (requires an Instapaper Premium account). Here are the different blog articles I wrote on the topic: MiniReader for Instapaper v1.1
Software Development Json.NET & JsonFx In preparation of a talk I gave in Karlsruhe in May 2014 and will give in Nürnberg in July 2014, I decided to start a series of articles to ramp up the topics
Software Development Noda Time In preparation of a talk I gave in Karlsruhe in May 2014 and will give in Nürnberg in July 2014, I decided to start a serie of articles to ramp up the topics
Software Development Libraries I wouldn't want to code without anymore As I'm getting myself ready for a new talk, here is another series for you to chew on. The talk is titled "Running a Marathon barefoot, those libraries I wouldn't want to