This article discusses my experience as first time user of XAML and the Windows Phone developer tools.

   This article discusses the Brainfuck interpreter for the BF for WP application.

   I have been a professional developer for more than five years and in this time I have been working exclusively on (more or less) enterprise ASP.NET applications. In that time I have worked on a couple of Windows Services to do background tasks and a couple of migration tools but other than that I have no real world experience with either desktop or mobile development. I do not like the web as a platform for applications. I really like it as a platform for serving information (Wikipedia style) but it always seemed so wrong to me to build applications using a document format – like programming in doc + VB script for Word. Sadly in the relatively small city where I live there are not many options that pay well and have interesting projects so my whole career kind of naturally swung towards Web development. So I saved some money, quit my job, took another junior level part time job as a mobile developer with a severely reduced pay and I plan to develop some apps on my own. All of this because I do not like developing for the Web… Plus I want to have more time to play StarCraft...

   In this series of articles I will detail my experience developing my very first Windows Phone application.

   Закривам фестивалния сезон за 2012 с най-добрия от всички български фестивали – Spirit of Burgas. Тази година организацията беше перфектна, но както всяка година ще се оплача от вездесъщия, отвратителен пясък. Пред рок сцената положението беше още по-зле защото пясъкът си беше прашна пръст и когато се заформи пого пред цялата сцена се появяваше един облак, в който трудно се дишаше...

Deep Purple's Jon Lord will not compose and play for us anymore. One of the pioneers who merged classical music and rock is now a Highway Star. He will never truly leave us but cancer is a bitch.