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I’ve never written anything about Windows Phone before on my blog, despite the fact that I’ve owned a Windows phone for the last 3 years. Unfortunately, that phone was a HTC Touch2 running Windows Mobile 6.5, so perhaps it’s for the best that I have remained quiet because let’s face it: Windows Mobile 6.5 is a pretty crappy phone OS. So why did I put up with it for three years? Well, laziness, mostly… But enough about that, because all that’s in the past and now it’s Windows Phone 8 time!  read full post

So as you may or may not (probably not) have noticed, my site’s been off the air for the last few weeks. But despair no more, for it is back! Like a phoenix reborn from the ashes, it begins anew. Stronger, better, and faster, it burns with the almighty fury of ten thousand suns.  read full post

The last two Euler problems were rather anticlimactic, so let’s just keep going.  read full post

The last Euler problem was pretty trivial, so let’s hope problem number 20 is more interesting…  read full post

Let’s do another Euler problem, shall we?  read full post

My recent upgrade to Visual Studio 2012 means I now also have the new features in .NET version 4.5 to play with. The one I was most exited about was the async/await pair of keywords introduced to C#. These two keywords aim to offer a relatively simple way of doing asynchronous programming, without all the headaches this sort of thing normally creates. Today I’ll go over the syntax and semantics of these two new keywords.  read full post

Visual Studio 2012 was released a while ago, but because the success of my master’s project was dependent on my VS 2010 environment, I refrained from upgrading until now. Last week I completely removed Visual Studio 2010, including the laundry list of optional components that get installed, and then switched to Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate (which I had already acquired trough my university some time ago). I haven’t been able to play around with it in-depth yet, but here are some first impressions…  read full post