Research and development – Ivan Vlaevski

Small is smart

Posted on September 8, 2015 by Ivan

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 unified...

Hamburger menu on Windows 10 Universal App

Posted on August 21, 2015September 3, 2015 by Ivan

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...

Medical Band Alert

Posted on July 20, 2015September 3, 2015 by Ivan

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. Whether you are taking one medicine or many, you know how difficult it can be to take the...

Reserve your Windows 10 upgrade today!

Posted on June 1, 2015September 3, 2015 by Ivan

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...

Designing a Beautiful REST API with JSON (Finalization)

Posted on May 11, 2015September 3, 2015 by Ivan

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. One of the most important elements is to deliver to the client all needed...

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

Posted on January 31, 2015September 3, 2015 by Ivan

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...

Designing a Beautiful REST API with JSON

Posted on January 31, 2015September 3, 2015 by Ivan

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...

LightSwitch with Oracle Data Source (part 2)

Posted on January 25, 2013September 3, 2015 by Ivan

In the previous part I mentioned I'm working on existing database, changing the application administration. One of the issues I have to solve is using the existing authentication. LightSwith has build in authentication, but it uses .NET Role and Membership providers and they are not solution we...

LightSwitch with Oracle Data Source

Posted on January 19, 2013September 3, 2015 by Ivan

I have several products based on Oracle Databases with some not so easy to extend administrations. Most of those projects have to be extended with new functionalities according to the current user experience level. People want to use pads and mobile phones to run their business from...

FoSearch

Posted on January 4, 2013September 3, 2015 by Ivan

Sing in Congratulations! FoSearch, release 1 is now in the Windows Store. Use this link to your app’s listing in the Windows Store to let others know about your app. Because we just added your app to the Windows Store, it might take some time before your customers will see it in their search...