Convert from jar to dll

Nowadays, development is very eased from community.
We can easily re-use our code between different platforms in so many ways, gaining time, money and above all... today have multiple skills is not so as useful as before.

By the way, I recently had necessity to bring some java code to .NET runtimes.
No difficulties with IKVM.NET !

If you follow these steps you can convert from JAR to DLL or even from Runnable JAR to EXE!

15 reasons why Windows Phone 8 sucks for me ( as consumer )

1. Facebook app really fucking sucks!  Notification messages doesn’t work!
2. Integrated Facebook chat is the same...
3. Twitter, is the same… nicer than Facebook but  same notifications problem.
4. No dropbox app (but Skydrive is awesome!)
5. No Instagram app, is there any free alternative?
6. Native Youtube is missing ☹ 
7. There’s no alternative browser or search engine to bing
8. Whatsapp app is maybe the nicest app I downloaded
9. Sometimes network  goes offline and there’s no way to get it back
10. Saving photos directly to SD card is very slow, it may takes about 10 seconds per photo
11. Saving a recorded video to SD card is completely buggy with video lags  and audio strutterings. 
12. There’s a folder called “Others” that is always full of something that fill internal memory. I can’t delete its content and I must delete some applications because memory is full and phone doesn’t work properly.
13. Bluetooth doesn’t match with my BT-Voice speaker.
14. No notification center
15. Only four vibrations while ringing!

Am I too critic?

Don't you agree with me?

Damn the day I sold my Android :(

That damn NFC alert after tapping a tag on WP8

In these days I had the opportunity to develop a Windows Phone 8 application for my company.
The main reason we choose WP8 was the new Proximity API for reading NFC Tags.

I don't wanna write about how to read or write a NFC Tag but I just want to notify you an issue I encountered while developing.

When you tap a Tag over a device, a system dialog appears asking you if you want to view the content of the tag. A dialog is showed even if there aren't app that can manage a specified tag content.
So read a Tag brings an annoying system dialog.

I had to realize an app that reads tags during an event and does a check-in . So in a single page I want to read several nfc tags without any kind of interruptions.
Can I read a tag without seeing this damn alert that is literally ruining my UX? The answer is yes I can.

Fixed layout for PhoneApplicationPage

As a beginner in WP7 I found some issues for my first applications.
One of those problems I had was the hated "fixed layout" of a page.

It's a topic already discussed (view the post for Android) but in this case, it's a bit different.

Suppose we want a "fixed header and footer" for every page, how do you do it?