Great pizza recipe that can be made at home oven.

To store my passwords I use a hybrid approach with Lastpass used as a password entropy storage. For important services, like Github, I only store half of the password in LastPass. Then I add a short random string and a generic short password. The final password is 12-16 random characters from LastPass + 3 chars that I generate from the service name (in my head) and a short 5 characters password.

Here is a baggage checklist that I’ve been using for a few years

There are many ways to compare two integers. One of them is to compare each bit of numbers e.g. comparing 2 and 1:

Sample code for printing java.sql.ResultSet

TL;DR I made a small web app that sends the content of HTML 5 canvas directly to Facebook, without intermediate storage. It converts canvas UrlData which is base64 to png and posts it to user’s wall.

I was wondering how to use some cool font in my XNA game. I came up with an idea to draw white and black text with an offset to give it “3d” look.

The default parsing method for C# using current culture, which sucks really badly. ( I wrote about it on SO)

To answer this question, we need to know what kind of Operating System and architecture we are dealing with, the Standard and articles refers to “storage” or “space”. These are the most general terms and the only valid ones, unless we make a bunch of assumptions.

For example:

There had been an issue with MAC adress on WP7 - the MAC wasn’t exposed. As a result, there phone can’t be connected to MAC-secure WIFI. After March update, the MAC is in About page. Go Setting -> About -> More info.

For the engineers among us who understand that the obvious is not always the solution, and that the facts, no matter how implausible, are still the facts …

It seems that VS 2010 screws the project properties when namespaces are changed.

I would like to share a quick tutorial how to get ITIN number for tax purposes. I is a bit of PITA (pain in the ass), especially for those who do not have access to a proper tax advisor, that is why I share this.

Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 is based on the page navigation system. Key point is the lifetime of pages - each page is deleted while you navigate to another. To have an object(singleton f.e.) during the whole application life it could be placed in App class (App.xaml.cs file). MediaElement is definitely an object that should be one (there must be only one music player). The best and simple solution is place the MediaElement in XAML(it needs to be a part of visual tree), I have used application resources:

Wonder if there is the API that simulates weather condition (insired by wordpress' snow). User could see weather conditions of place that she/he want to visit.

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To add simple pinch zoom (that I used in my Spirit Level) use the Silverlight Toolkit for WP7 and add the pinch GetureListener to a grid

I have tried to gather some important ones. I will update this post when I spot something new :)

WP7 is missing following features:

There are a lot of pros and cons of diffrent typing, yet on the one hand static typing wins - security. Yes both can be more or less secure buy static typing tells you a lot about your code and prevents from bugs, certain types of bugs. Do you want to buy a new flashy notebook with 90% discount? Everybody does :)

The best practices about Silverlight and Silverlight for Windows Phone 7.

WP7 wiki

The quote from Pro in WPF book:

Binary serialization vs Json.

The preview of Sync Framework.

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How to find app using internet browser? Use bing Visual Search.

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Finally!

The Monkeys and the Bananas

A parable about schedules, cycle times, and shaping new behaviour.

Classic Metronome by SoonStudios

Charles Petzold has released ebook about Windows Phone 7 for free!

http://www.charlespetzold.com/phone/

Thanks a lot!

Spirit level by SoonStudios. Have a look.

Since Microsoft will not provide any reports till January Tom Verhoeff on his blog shows the solution how to get some info about your app. The silverlight app gets the atom read from marketplace by ID and shows all the reviews from all marketplaces.

A few tips that make your life easer.

TL;DR To try out WP7 tools I made Tip Calcuator