Windows 8 apps event logs 20 Aug 2012 | 01:09 am

While porting a rather large native application to Window 8 (Windows Store application) I encountered some startup problems. Errors like the following appeared: —————————Microsoft Visual Studio———————...

ReSharper and Windows 8 Metro Windows.UI… namespaces 26 Feb 2012 | 07:39 am

@cschleiden Is there a way to make #resharper recognize the Windows.UI… #winrt namespaces? @derigel @cschleiden Not yet Let’s just hope they release a new version together with the VS Beta.

Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight Slider Binding Bug 3 Feb 2012 | 01:51 pm

It took me about 4-5 hours today to finally recognize why one my custom controls behaved in a strange way. It is a control derived from the Silverlight slider control and I encountered strange behavio...

Double Angle Brackets 4 Jan 2012 | 11:47 pm

Years of C++ still make me uncomfortable when I see double angle brackets like in C# code (or in newer versions of C++ as well) …

Spotify App auf Windows Phone 7 in Deutschland / Spotify on Windows Phone 7 from Germany 10 Nov 2011 | 10:33 pm

Seit einigen Tagen ist nach langer Wartezeit endlich Spotify fuer das Windows Phone 7 erschienen. Leider, leider wurde die App nicht in den deutschen Marketplace eingestellt. Mit einem kleinen Trick i...

Büchermenschen 16 Oct 2011 | 02:56 am

Als grosser Kindle Fan erzaehlen mir auch Leute staendig von dem tollen Gefuehl ein Buch aus Papier in der Hand zu halten… passend dazu gerade gelesen: Neben dem wirtschaftlichen haben die Verlage no...

Reasons why I exit vi 1 Oct 2011 | 12:15 am

Windows Phone 7.5 Mango und O2 Visual Voice Mail 29 Sep 2011 | 09:10 am

Seit gestern wird die aktuelle Windows Phone 7 version “Mango” ausgeliefert (rockt uebrigens) und bringt (theoretisch) Support fuer Visual Voice Mail mit. O2 Deutschland Kunden (so wie ich) haben in d...

Linker trouble on BlueGene/P system 29 Sep 2011 | 09:06 am

Today I have learned that having a global variable in some C89 code which is not declared as static might be problematic if said code is later linked together with a Fortran program which includes a f...

SIGPROF signal handler and pthreads 10 Sep 2011 | 01:06 am

During work on my thesis the question popped up how signals generated by the SIGPROF timer were handled in multithreaded code. Signal handlers are process specific to it could have been that one rando...