My Wordpress blog is hosted on Windows Azure, and I am using the only MySQL provider that is available on Azure: ClearDB. Yesterday I couldn’t log in to the admin panel. I had no idea what was going on, because blog was working. I was googling for cause/solution, checking Azure logs, monitoring on Azure Portal, and accidentally I noticed that I exceeded ClearDB quota (20 MB). I did not receive any notifications from ClearDB though. What is important: if you exceed this limit...

Gulp is a streaming build system (aka task runner). It contains plugins, which allows you to run tasks such as TypeScript to JavaScript compilation, Less to CSS compilation, bundling, minification, running you own scripts, and much, much more...

The second edition of dotNetConfPL was pretty successful. I am very pleased with all sessions, and speakers performance. All sessions went smooth, but one. Barbara Fusinska could not run screenshare on Google Hangouts. Her session was recorded later and is already available. The only way to inform other about the problems during the conference was through JabbR or displaying Blue Screen of Death instead of her session. Adding something on website would...

This post is part of the series: iOS for C# Developer. C# developers works with Visual Studio. Recently, some are trying to switch to SublimeText. However, I will assume that you, as C# Developer are familiar with VS. To write iOS applications, you need Xcode. I haven’t heard about nobody who created an working app in a different editor (more advanced than Hello World)...

This post is part of the series: iOS for C# Developer. String operations in Objective-C are very verbose in comparison to C#.

Some time ago I created an Azure alert (thanks to Iris Classon). I did it as a part of my Azure exploration. The rule I created, send me email every time I have more than 1000 requests per hour. I received one or two e-mails in last two weeks and that was fine. High traffic can happen occasionally. Of course I created this rule based on history of the number of requests from the past. However, last night I received 3 e-mails. I checked with Azure Man...

Finally, I had time to watch Build 2014 sessions. Here are the best I have seen. Thinking for programmers (Leslie Lamport) Windows and the Internet of Things (Steve Teixeira) Building Azure Web Sites with Visual Studio Online “Monaco” (Chris Dias) What’s New for ASP.NET and Web in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 and Beyond (Scott Hanselman and Scott Hunter) Modern C++: What You Need to Know (Herb Sutter) The Future of C# (and VB) Go Mobile with C# and Xamarin (Miguel de Icaza) TypeScript (Anders Hejlsberg) D...

Six years ago I purchased Logitech UltraX, which is still the best keyboard I have ever had. Unfortunately, as you know, keyboard cannot live for ever. Two years ago I wanted to buy the same model again, but…UltraX is no longer made. I was looking for some on amazon and ebay, and I found only Logitech Ultra X with PS/2. I bought it and it was fine, but I needed also PS/2->USB converter (my laptop doesn’t have PS/2 like most of laptops today). It works...

In my pervious post I described basic multithreading constructs in C#. Now, I would like to compare them to conforming constructs in Java. It might be useful for those of you, who has already created some multithreaded applications in Java, and would like to learn how to do the same in C#.

Over a year ago I created simple Windows 8 app: Pomidoro (the name ‘Pomodoro’ was already taken at the Windows Store). And yes, it is for applying The Pomodoro Technique. I published it to the Windows Store on January 7, 2013. The reason I created this app, was to learn Windows 8 Metro apps development. From time to time I receive e-mails that my app got some third party award or was reviewed by some website I have never heard about.