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.

In the last semester (Fall 2013) I had a pleasure to take course CIS706 – Translator Design (aka Compilers) with Dr Robby at Kansas State University. It was great experience! I think it is the best course I have ever taken. The way how this course is designed is just amazing...

Windows PowerShell is very powerful tool. It contains many useful commands. One of my favorite features is possibility to use some well-known bash commands such as: ls or pwd, which are missing in Windows Command Prompt. The cool thing is the fact, that PowerShell contains combination of Windows Command Prompt and Bash shell commands. E.g. for copying you can use copy (Windows) and cp (Bash).

OWIN stands for The Open Web Interface for .NET. It is a standard for communication between .NET web servers and web applications. It defines required elements for HTTP request. It is inspired by Rack from Ruby on Rails World. Katana is implementation of this standard. We can say that it is a lightweight web server for .NET. In fact, it is more than that.

A rich Internet application (RIA) is a Web application that has many of the characteristics of desktop application software. We used to create Rich Internet Applications in Silverlight. Now, JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Knockout, Angular) are getting more popular for such purpose.

June was a month of conferences for .NET developers! We had Tech Ed North America, Norwegian Developers Conference, Tech Ed Europe and bunch more, but the biggest one was Microsoft Build Developer Conference.

When you copy some piece of text e.g. from Web Browser to Word it preserves formatting. Which is sometimes (most of the time) unnecessary.

In June 3 – 6, there was Tech Ed North America conference in New Orleans. The videos are available on channel9. I have watched a few very good sessions, and I can recommend you especially 5 of them.