Download links

A couple of people were complaining about poor speed and connection when they tried to download PeekPocket 1.6. I've uploaded the sources and the compiled binary to Mediafire. Hope this will help the situation.

>> To download PeekPocket 1.6, click here <<

Apart from that, I've really no time to update this blog on a regular basis. Recently I've been far too busy with a lot of things, absolutely not related to Pocket PCs. I think the best idea is to close this blog. It was fun but it's time to move on.

Chillout

Long time no see!
Been busy as usual... so far it seems I've played enough with handheld devices. It's been a lot of fun, but honestly I ran out of ideas. I coded a game, various graphics things, even a cross-platform skinnable dialog framework... been a lot of fun.
My attention has turned towards other things, among them, the possibilites of speculating financial markets. Nowadays everything in the news is about recession, credit crunch and stock prices. Speculation is a profession, one can learn it but it takes years. Coding is a profession too, and anyone with some experience knows it takes years to become a good coder. So is it with speculation.

Alright, I think when I find something interesting related to coding, I will post it here. For example there is a funny bug related to floating point runtime - I found a workaround in UPX sources.

I hear there are download problems with files shared on this blog. Should you have any problems, drop me a note, tell me which file you want, and I will send it in email.

Happy new year

I wish everyone a happy new year, lots of fun, good health and big fat wealth. :-)
I wanted to write up a small how-to on the subject Wifi scanning in C#, because I get questions from time to time on that.
Laters.

How IT gets done

I've been active on RentACoder.com some time ago, was both a coder and a buyer couple of times. I had good impressions generally, but my problem was that sellers (coders) from developing countries like India and China were so bloody cheap so that it really did not pay for me to turn my PC on. No, I don't think I have overestimated my hourly rate, those guys ARE really too cheap. (They are really good, too, by the way).
I posted a project to RAC - I need some graphics job done. I received a dozen bids within the hour, and picked a seller from Pakistan. Has very good ratings, and I hope the job will be done quickly and perfectly. Honestly he bid 1/5th of the price that it would cost me if I wanted the job done here. Not to mention, every pro seems to be very busy at the moment, I had the feeling they are doing me a favor by accepting a PAID job. Funny, really. So what I can say is if you have anything IT related and want a quick solution, go for RAC.

Been a while

Been a while since I had no time to drop in here to update the blog. Sorry to say, this aint likely to change in the near future. It seems my PDA carreer will be parked for a while. I enjoyed these little devices really, but to be honest, WinCE could benefit a lot from improvements. To put it short, it is sometimes a very big pain in the bottom to achieve something that would be a 2 minutes task on a desktop PC. An example could be doing fullscreen, graphics stuff, accessing Wifi, or doing some UI tricks like transparency. I enjoyed my stay in WinCE land really, but somehow the magic is over. I wrote couple of articles to CodeProject, hope helped some people a little. By the way, I see my article about Gfx programming, written 2 years ago, has the best score (4.63) in the CE / Embedded - Graphics and Multimedia section. Well, that's nice. Thankx for all the votes, folks.

St. Petersburg

I've been to St. Petersburg this week. Had to visit a site and sort a couple of things out. The first part was no problem, but the second, well, still there are some crashes under heavy load. I will be occupied with logfiles and optimization in the next couple of days. Will post some pics later, a very nice city by the way.

The #1 salesperson

I read an interesting article on CNN Money. It was about a guy called Joe Girard. He was a car salesperson - in fact the best car salesperson. He sold an average of 5 cars a day while the others sold one weekly. How he did it? It's all about the attitude. Read the interview here.