Review of a geek’s 2014
We are close to the end of this year 2014, time for a little review. At the beginning of the year, I was mostly busy with working on my UserVoice library that makes it easier for me and other deve...
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Goodbye Telefónica (Germany), Hello ShareCommService (Switzerland)
Yes, you read that right. Today was my last work day at Telefónica, where I worked since June 2007. During that time, I learned a lot about how good customer service should be, and even more about ...
My experiences with Xamarin.Forms
As I have finished my first iOS app with Xamarin.Forms, I want to share my experience that I made during writing it. It sounds great. Build the code once, run it on Android, iOS and Windows Phone ...
How to use WordPress to display remote notifications in your Windows Phone app
Sometimes, we need to display information to our users on demand. The easiest way is to do this in our app via a remote notification service. If you have a WordPress blog, my solution may also be ...
Editorial: We are all humans (why racism sucks)
Last night, the news were full of the decision of the grand jury in Ferguson (USA) (because of a young black man that got killed by a white police officer) and the following riots. A lot of discuss...
How to capture a photo in your Windows Phone 8.1 Runtime app – Part III: capturing and saving the photo
This is the third and last post of this series. In the first two posts I showed you how to start the preview of MediaCapture and some modifications we can apply to it. In this post, we are finally ...
How to capture a photo in your Windows Phone 8.1 Runtime app-Part II: some common modifications
Like promised in my first post about photo capturing, I will provide some common modification scenarios when using the MediaCapture API. This is what this post is about. Choosing a camera If you ...
How to capture a photo in your Windows Phone 8.1 Runtime app–Part I: the preview of the photo to capture
With the recent release of the public beta of RandR, I also learned a lot about taking photos from within an Windows Phone 8.1 app. There are several differences to Windows Phone 8, so I decided to...
How to generate a round image button for your Windows Phone 8.1 app (to use everywhere)
Recently, I experimented a bit because I wanted a round button that contains an image that can be used everywhere where I can add a standard button (and not just in the AppBar). I managed to get a ...
How to create a folder in Windows Phone 8.1 Pictures Library (and save/read files into/from it)
Some of you might have noticed that UniShare has its own folder in your devices picture library. Also some other apps like WhatsApp or Tweetium have it. The advantages of your app’s own folder are ...