Archive for March, 2010

Making of: Managed plug-in for Snippet Manager

Snippet Manager is an application built by Danny Battison. Its main purpose is to help developers organize their code snippets in the cloud (those aren’t stored locally). One of the interesting features of the application is that it offers an interface for plug-ins, although with a specific code structure. Here is a sample plug-in developed [...]

I Got Code #3: Uploading pictures. With TwitPic and C#.

If you used Twitter, you should know that there is a service called TwitPic, that allows Twitter users to share pictures. It is simple and easily accessible. Being integrated in the majority of Twitter clients, it gained quite a lot of popularity. It offers a public API that lets the developers upload images right from [...]

WeatherBar 2 – what changed?

Since the forst release (and mention) of WeatherBar I put the project on CodePlex. It all started as a fun application, that I decided to submit for a contest. There were a few additions that I wanted to add to it, but put the app on the backburner since I was working on some other [...]

I Got Code #2: Progress in the Windows 7 taskbar

Have you seen that new progress indicator in Windows 7 taskbar? If you used Windows 7 at least for a day, chances are you did. Did you like? I surely did. It is handy to see the progress of an operation right in the taskbar, without having to switch to a different window. Something that [...]

ImagineCup Milestone 1 reached.

Not long ago I signed up for the ImagineCup competition. For the Internet Explorer 8 Award, to be specific. Days passed, and today I finally submitted my entry – a web application that includes the new elements introduced in Internet Explorer 8 – web slices, accelerators and visual search. The interesting part is – when [...]