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January 7th, 2011 | andre

HTC HD2 (Leo) smartphone can run Android!

During the last day of 2010 news has leaked about a substantial breakthrough in the world of hacking. The quite famous and popular smartphone HTC HD2, also known as Leo, was hacked to run Android 2.2 and 2.3. Originally the phone comes with Windows Mobile 6.3 preinstalled. One needs a lot of space in order to describe all of this OS' shortcomings in the areas of stability, performance, user interface … more »
December 31st, 2010 | andre

Infectious greed

I’ve just finished reading a very interesting book by Frank Partnoy – “Infectious Greed”.  I actually remember seeing it in a library back in 2005, however at that time I chose not to invest the effort into reading it, a decision which I regret today.  Nonetheless, better late than never, as they say. The book is devoted to a number of related, as far as the author is concerned, crises … more »
June 19th, 2010 | andre

Windows Phone 7 development in Visual Studio 2010

The recently released Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 does not support mobile development for OS versions prior to the new Windows Phone 7. If you want to write software for Windows Mobile 6.5 or lower, you need to stick to Visual Studio 2005. So much for backward compatibility. So, if you are happy to try the new waters of Windows Phone 7, you can download the relevant SDK from Windows Phone … more »
April 9th, 2010 | andre

iPhone OS 4.0 features

Apple has recently announced the long anticipated release 4.0 of their iPhone OS. The list of new end-user features is disappointingly short - the main item seems to be the addition of some GUI multitasking. Many important, easy to add and practical features, already found in the "jailbreak" versions are not mentioned. It is a pity Apple has such tight control on their product and that it takes so long … more »
March 31st, 2010 | andre

Fedora Core 12

I have recently installed Fedora Core 12 on my server box. It was an upgrade from Fedora Core 9 and I had to do an intermediate upgrade from 9 to 10, since direct transition from 9 to 12 is not supported. Aside from this small annoyance the process went through very smoothly. It looks like Fedora Core 12 supports an "in place" upgrade mode, similar to recent version of Ubuntu. … more »
March 30th, 2010 | andre

Log viewer for Windows

Monitoring text log files is quite important activity in our day to day programming lives. Unfortunately, Windows operating system does not include convenient tools to perform the task by default. Nothing comparing to more »
March 25th, 2010 | andre

LINQ QuickSort in C#

This is most certainly not the recommended way of implementing QuickSort, it assumes there are no duplicates, but it should work: more »
March 18th, 2010 | andre

The worst broadband in the UK - Tiscali (now TalkTalk)

I have been using Tiscali (now TalkTalk) broadband services for more than 4 months. At the beginning everything was fine - I even was quite pleased with them, since they promised to connect me within 10 business days, but in fact I was on the Internet after just one week. But 2 and a half weeks ago the nightmare began. For whatever reason my Internet connection disappeared. I called the … more »
March 14th, 2010 | andre

Pascal.NET

A Pascal compiler for .NET not from Borland is available from RemObjects. However the site seems to be dead. more »
March 12th, 2010 | andre

Events and BinaryFormatter serialization in .NET

Serialization in .NET world is not straightforward. For years we've been told to use more »
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