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  • Publishing Universal Windows App Troubles

    App was pronounced done and it was time to see how easy was process of publishing it to the Windows Store.

    I went online to the Developer Console and started app submission and completed a few pages of questions.

    Then came packaging: RMB on project -> Store -> Create App Package

    From there everything seemed […]

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  • UWP and Windows 10 Icons

    Next in my app development I needed some mediaplayer icons for my app. I never liked this part before as my workflow was searching through Syncfusion MetroStudio to find suitable icon, which I sometimes could not find; On success I would search through UI guidelines to see how close it is to the default OS […]

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  • Windows UWP development from WPF Deverloper’s perspective

    It took me a while to get myself to interest in development on Universal Windows Platform. Without going to Build conferences or watching them it is hard to pick up related information without knowing what you are looking for. Once one starts reading it is overwhelming: What is WinRT? Difference between Windows Store Apps and […]

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  • Future Hololens Kid – Process

    In October, the Microsoft’s Hololens demo got me thinking that the future generations will probably look at today’s tablets the same way as Generation Z looks at Handheld Electronic Games:

    If a kid today found this on the attic, they would know that this is some kind of game even if the screen was […]

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  • CSS Ellipsis issues

    I had issues with titles on this posts where the ellipsis would not work and text would wrap to a next line. Apparently all these CSS lines were necessary:

    width: 100%; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden;

    Keywords: paragraph ellipsis, text wrapping, css text trimming

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  • Nexus 5 vs Lumia 640 vs Lumia 640 XL

    A few days ago I was in Microsoft Store and I wanted to test if it would make sense to upgrade Nexus 5 (2013) to Lumia 640 or Lumia 640 XL… it would not. Take a look at the image – crops of the same image were enlarged to 200% with Nearest Neighbor method so […]

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  • Alternative to Vertical Scrolling Lists

    My answer on Quora post on this subject.

    Humans are very good at finding patterns everywhere and to quickly group individual but similar things for easier processing. This feature of ours enables us to process and memorize information easier.

    Now lets think about concept of Miller’s Law. It states that we can process 7±2 pieces […]

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  • What I want in the Surface Phone

    I am on the market for a new phone. Currently I have Nexus 4 and even though I have tried upgrading from 4.4.4 to 5.x, and even to 6 several times, I would return within 3 days because of all battery/camera/restarting/sleep/other issues. I have also tried several 3rd party ROMs but that was a waste […]

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