The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,100 times in 2013. If it were a cable car, it would take about 18 trips to carry that many people.
As we have been tackling more responsive projects, we wanted a way to quickly find the screen specifications of the most popular devices and monitors currently on the market. … Read more at typecode.com blog
You can get a 180-day evaluation copy of Windows Server 2012 (link: http://tinyurl.com/clll28q- ). You will receive 4 emails from Microsoft during the 180-day evaluation period to enhance your evaluation experience
After downloading the trial copy, I set up a Hyper-V machine and installed the Windows Server 2012 as follows:
If everything goes on well, you will see this lovely log on screen.
I have started playing with the server. I will post further updates on my evaluation.
Here is the list of apps I have published in the Windows Phone Store
I have had a chance to review this book ‘Windows Azure programming patterns for Start-ups‘. As a .NET developer and C#, I have to say I found this book both fulfilling and practical for the areas I wanted to learn in Windows Azure.
I am not very new to Windows Azure having written some code here and there. I found this book very practical in the approach the authors have taken to ensure all areas of Windows Azure are explained. In this book, the developer is angaged from page 1 as a brand new service is created from scratch to deployment.
I will say having read this book, I can now make informed choices on which Windows Azure storage to choose from Table Storage, Blobs, Queues and Windows Azure SQL databases. I also enjoyed the topic on ‘What’s New in Windows Azure’
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner can carry about 250 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,400 times in 2012. If it were a Dreamliner, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people.
Win8 Genius – it does what it says on the tin, it is your genius on your Windows 8 device.
We are building a set of dashboards for you where you can access information about your Windows 8 and device centrally in the modern fluid user interface. A place where you can view your network/internet info, your device info, your printers info among others. And what about a live tile to loop through some of these message on your home screen?
We are starting small but open for ideas on which pieces of information that can be added to this genius app.
The initial version of the app has been submitted to the store for certification. We are currently working on next dashboards which will be available soon.
We are happy for any feedback you may have:
TOP MOVIES is a handy app for browsing your top 12 favorite family friendly movies in each genre by average ratings.
You can get this app by searching for TOP MOVIESin Windows store or clicking on the link.
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///
/// Property that returns the connection profile [ ie, availability of Internet ]
/// Interface type can be [ 1,6,9,23,24,37,71,131,144 ]
/// 1 – > Some other type of network interface.
/// 6 – > An Ethernet network interface.
/// 9 – > A token ring network interface.
/// 23 -> A PPP network interface.
/// 24 -> A software loopback network interface.
/// 37 -> An ATM network interface.
/// 71 -> An IEEE 802.11 wireless network interface.
/// 131 -> A tunnel type encapsulation network interface.
/// 144 -> An IEEE 1394 (Firewire) high performance serial bus network interface.
///
public static bool IsConnectedToNetwork
{
get
{
var profile = NetworkInformation.GetInternetConnectionProfile();
if (profile != null)
{
var interfaceType = profile.NetworkAdapter.IanaInterfaceType;
return interfaceType == 71 || interfaceType == 6;
}
return false;
}
}
Search Appointments is a handy app to allow you to search your calendar for appointments by specifying search text and date range. You can also narrow down your search to particular accounts on your phone such as Live, Outlook and others
Privacy Statement
This app access your user data, i.e. your calendar appointments for purposes of searching them. This app does not share your calendar appointments data with any third party. By using this app you accept this app to access your data.
How To Use This App
