Tag Archives: opinion

Why there is no single mobile development platform

So there is the question asked by some developers that target mobile platforms – how come there is no single toolkit that will let develop for every single platform out there. After all, wouldn’t it be easier to build the application once and let it run on every single mobile device that is available on [...]

WPF to replace WinForms?

I’ve asked myself this question many times. And if at the beginning, when WPF was just picking up momentum, I would say that this was a straight negative, today I can say the opposite – it really does seem that WPF will slowly replace WinForms, and there is a reason for that. When WPF came [...]

Using the Google Weather API – pros and cons so far

For my latest project, WeatherBar, I had to pick a weather API. Basically, I needed to get the weather conditions for a specific location, as well as a short forecast. The choices I had were Yahoo Weather API, WeatherBug API and Google Weather API (yes,there is no mistake here – it is a direct API [...]