Found an uplifting email today in my mailbox which informed me that my app for Windows Phone has been a runner-up in round 5 of Lifehacker and Microsoft’s developer challenge. I am very happy about this and I’d like to thank those who judged my app to be worthy of [...]
I was reading Matt Cutt’s post about malware warning. It got me a bit worried about the situation of my site being hacked and ending up in Google dumpster. Of course all the preventive measures should be applied to protect a website but if my site was hacked then I’d [...]
After modifying the theme of take37, I was interested in knowing how the site appears on different browsers and different operating systems. One way to do this is to fire up a lot of VMs and then browse the site on each one of them. Luckily there is a sanity [...]
Tools like StyleCop have their place in the world and I have nothing against using them to produce consistently formatted code. It kinda makes the person higher up in the food chain brag to those higher above him about the quality of code being produced. However when I write code [...]
I use NuGet packages all the time for most of my projects. I ran into an issue on a project I am working on with another developer. We are using Github for source control and we are using many NuGet packages in our solution. The issue was that after adding [...]
It is a common feature of many apps to select photos stored on the device. The feature can be implemented by using PhotoChooserTask class. In this post I will show you how to use PhotoChooserTask to select existing photos and also take photos using the camera. Code for this post [...]
Found a great collection of Python books available for free. Sharing it with readers of Therefore Systems. Screenshot below is just a small sample. Link
As a developer I spend my life inside Visual Studio. Since I installed Windows 8, I was having trouble opening web projects. Turns out that I need to run Visual Studio as an administrator. Rather than right clicking the shortcut every time and another click to run as administrator, I [...]
After installing Windows 8, I found that my ASP.NET MVC projects won’t open in Visual Studio. This is the error thrown by Visual Studio 2012. My first reaction was to execute aspnet_regiis –i command. That did not work. This was a WTF moment. It turns out that I should be [...]
This is a follow up to my last post in which I showed you how to write a word count MapReduce job. Have a look at that earlier post before reading on. It will put things into perspective. As you saw we implemented our map and reduce methods in their [...]
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