For the time being I’m done updating the app I wrote during my free time between Windows Phone 7 releases (after WP7 and after ‘Mango’). I also uploaded the source code to GitHub and started using git for source control. There are other refactoring and features I want to add such as prefetch of images, but those will have to …
read more »I wanted to blog about this for a while now whether or not Derrick Rose becomes the MVP or not. For those who don’t know, Derrick Rose is a professional basketball player on the Chicago Bulls team. He said to reporters before the beginning of the NBA season, “Why can’t I be MVP of the league?”, and now months later …
read more »My Home Screen Customizer app was shipped on Huawei C8300 phones in China. You can see screenshots of my recent programs panel (top 2 screenshots) and the configuration interface I wrote (bottom of the page) here:
http://www.microsoft.com/china/windowsphone/tips/huawei_c8300/DeviceFeatures_huawei_c8300_94.html The above page is linked from Microsoft China’s page on Huawei C8300:
http://www.microsoft.com/china/windowsphone/phone/Huawei-C8300.aspx#tabs-4 It feels great to see that my work …
My current team is quite awesome. We just had our 2nd ProtoFest, and I’m really happy people liked my idea. ProtoFest is just an event when anybody can show off their prototype, and we have various prizes that people vote on to determine the winners. In the first ProtoFest, I showed off a bunch of ideas and won the “The …
read more »It’ll be in stores this year, and people will get to experience the cool stuff my team and I made. Some of the very things that I coded are pointed out in this preview as highlights. Engadget reviewers particularly liked the directions list view in Maps, which is one of the things I worked on for WP7 :) …
read more »One of my old teammates just informed me about the release of LG Fathom, which was the device that I last worked on before I switched teams. I consider myself lucky to have things I’m deeply passionate about and actually get to work on them. It’s an interesting feeling to see devices that I work on being released and sometimes …
read more »I’m severely behind on my RSS feeds as I have already mentioned. Today I woke up and decided to head to digg.com to check out what’s new. I saw DavidAirey’s entry on how his information was stolen because of a Gmail bug: http://www.davidairey.co.uk/google-gmail-security-hijack/ Everybody is at risk nowadays with information stored by Amazon, by Google, by Microsoft, etc. You don’t …
read more »From a high school project to a project with a life of its own. I love open-source software even though a lot of times they do 90% of what I want and cause me to want to code the rest 10%. I got an email a day ago asking questions about OCVolume. I no longer work on this high school …
read more »The OCVolume category contains posts with emails I received regarding OCVolume. Close to when I am about to graduate from university, I heard from someone in Taiwan inquiring about OCVolume. Hi Danny, Thanks. The first question for you is - Is it an speaker dependent or independent? I have trained it with my own voice and seems that works pretty …
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