Author: Ivan

  • Small is smart

    Small is smart

    or How to saturate your data storage greediness Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform (UWP) provides a common app platform available on every device that runs Windows 10. This means you can create a single app package that can be installed onto a wide range of devices. And, with that single app package, the Windows Store provides a…

  • Hamburger menu on Windows 10 Universal App

    Hamburger menu on Windows 10 Universal App

    The new Windows 10 is here and clients demand new updated content available across a wide variety of devices. The new Visual Studio 2015 and Windows 10 SDK are providing the needed tools to start creating innovative new applications for Windows 10 users. This post is about one of the new fetaured in Universal Windows…

  • Medical Band Alert

    Medical Band Alert

    MedicalBandAlert is intuitive, visual, easy to setup and use prescribed-medication reminder. With just a few simple steps, you can add a medications and get reminders on your phone and on your Microsoft Band.

  • Reserve your Windows 10 upgrade today!

    Reserve your Windows 10 upgrade today!

    It time to start counting… Finally Microsoft announced some info about Windows 10 price and release date. It’s official: Windows 10 is coming on July 29 as a free upgrade to Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users (for one year). Some information about retailer’s prices and shipping date crossed the network with release date around a month later.…

  • Designing a Beautiful REST API with JSON (Finalization)

    Designing a Beautiful REST API with JSON (Finalization)

    In my previous post I wrote about how to design a beautiful REST API and now is time to finalize the API description with ideas about additional functionality needed in order to achieve the goal for a functional design. Meta Data One of the most important elements is to deliver to the client all needed URLs in…

  • License Plate Reognition

    License Plate Reognition

    License plate recognition (LPR), also called Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) is a mass surveillance method that uses optical character recognition on images to read vehicle registration plates. LPR can be used to store the images captured by the cameras as well as the text from the license plate. Systems commonly use infrared lighting to…

  • How to do URL routing (MOD_REWRITE) for both IIS and Apache

    How to do URL routing (MOD_REWRITE) for both IIS and Apache

    Usually I work on Windows OS with IIS and then I publish the smaller apps on shared hosting. This is why I hate making complicated configuration adding a lot of regular expression strings to route. The mod_rewrite Apache module is one of a webmaster’s most valuable tools. It allowing you to manipulate URLs in countless ways.…

  • Designing a Beautiful REST API with JSON

    Designing a Beautiful REST API with JSON

    There is a lot of documentation about how to build REST API using JSON formatted data in internet and I will try to summarize a little bit what I gather as knowledge about what is the right way to build RESTful API with JSON. Why we use APIs? Building APIs allows you to clear application layers…

  • APIS Projects

    APIS Projects

    With smile on my face I remember the time we work on those projects. At this point the government used outdated computers and the private sector was equipped with the cutting edge of technology. This is why we have to develop each application and it’s modules to work on Windows 1.1, Windows 98 and the newest…

  • Palm OS

    Palm OS

    A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… This was one of the first opportunities for developing application and games directly for the USA market. I used to use Handango and Palm Gear online markets for selling my products. As successfull products I can count BALLISTICS with over two thousand downloads and Space…