Converting a PDF for your Kindle Paid Members Public
Earlier I had blogged about reading an eBook vs reading a hard copy and I was preferring the hard copy one back then. But after getting a Kindle things have changed. I prefer MOBI now, as that is the one that is supported by Kindle. I think a Kindle needs
Giveaway : Get a license of your choice from Syncfusion Paid Members Public
Often we run up into the need for third party controls to give your apps/sites that extra edge that all of us are looking for. Syncfusion provides an excellent collection of controls for various platforms, details of which you can find here . Syncfusion was generous enough to giveaway a
Windows Phone Series – Jump Lists Paid Members Public
One of the best things about the windows phone is that way you can navigate large lists of data. Jumplist provides an easy and fast way to navigate large data, just like we do in the contacts hub or the apps collection. It would be great to have this behaviour
HTTP – A Short Dive Paid Members Public
Day in and day out, knowingly or unknowingly we get to use http. While accessing a web site, even the current one that you are reading, you are using http. Http is an application protocol that forms the basis of data communication for the web. As an end user of
MVVM – A Windows phone scenario Paid Members Public
With multiple platforms/devices, embracing the same technology, common architectural patterns become more popular as they provide us with what we want the most – **Reusability. **MVVM has turned out to be a must use architectural pattern while developing for Windows phone/Windows 8 store apps. I had blogged on this,
Windows Phone Series – MVVM and ApplicationBar Paid Members Public
ApplicationBar on a windows phone, is to provide users of your app with quick access to the most commonly used tasks. For a mail app this would be refresh/new mail, for a photo app it might be like/unlike button, settings etc are common buttons that appear in an
Windows Phone Series – Preloading Content Paid Members Public
Mostly phone apps, connect to a service for the data and wrap them up to a cool UI for user consumption. But at times we would have apps that comes with a lot of preloaded content, with offline capability using sqlite. Offline scenarios might either start of with preloaded content
MVVM – Does it really matter? Paid Members Public
MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel), is a popular architectural pattern since WPF/Silverlight. Separation of concerns(UI/code), testability etc are some of the key things that motivates one to go via the MVVM route. There are innumerous articles out there, just like this one, that gets into the details of how and