During the last month I’ve been in a math rock mood, probably thanks to my serious addicion to Crash of Rhinos. My pick for April is: Animals by This Town Needs Guns (2008) You can get it here: http://thistownneedsguns.bandcamp.com/album/animals
Read On →Welcome to the first post of the Q’s album pick of the month series! Without further ado, the album that I pick for March is: Distal by Crash of Rhinos (2011) Distal by Crash Of Rhinos This album has been playing over and over again in my car. It’s my daily soundtrack during my commute to college. Great riffs, great drumming and tremendous energy from the first to the last track.
Read On →If you’re part of my friend circle, you surely know that I am a serious music addict. I’m the guy who’s frequently telling you to “give {band name here} a listen!“. I’m also the guy whose opinion some people trust when they are looking for something new to add to their music collection. Given all this I decided that I’ll start posting a monthly album recommendation. This will usually be some great album that I’ve found and I feel like I should pass it forward.
Read On →Windows Phone Store is currently available in 191 countries. This allows your application to have a global customer reach. This also means a lot of customer diversity. Language is one of these differences. Building and application that can target multiple languages can help provide a great user experience for as many users around the world as possible. The Multilingual App Toolkit helps you in this process. It allows you to easily localize your app, either by yourself or using Microsoft Translator.
Read On →Instagram is a popular online photo and video sharing social network. It allows its users to take pictures and videos, apply digital filters to them, and then share them with the community. At the moment there is no official Windows Phone support but there is an API that you can use to access the content that is shared by the users. Note that the current API does not allow non-official clients to upload photos.
This post will show you how to integrate Instagram in your application. For this example, we’ll create a simple app to retrieve the list of your followers and the users you’re following.
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