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A Daily Trip to The World of Windows Phone 8

Today, I tried to develop my very first app for Windows Phone 8 (WP 8). I found a digital version of WP8 Development Internals and started reading. My goal was to develop an application that schedules the silence mode. If I had finished the application, I would have a scheduling mechanism that automatically sets my phone to silent mode whenever I wanted. Yet I realized my doom about 6 pm.

First of all, except reminders and alarms, there is no scheduling mechanism that you can set for a specified time. There are two background task models, yet none of them provides such a mechanism. Secondly, for security reasons, apps cannot change several system settings. And volume control is one of those settings that no third party app can control.

I named my app as “Code of Silence”, for 3 apparent reasons. It is my very first “Code” for WP8. Secondly, “Code of Silence” is a very interesting concept in real life. And last of all, Chuck Norris has a movie with the same name.

Frank theme

Now my blog looks better!

An imagination of Tanenbaum

“At one time, 80% of the AT&T’s capital value was the copper in the local loops. AT&T was then, in effect, the world’s largest copper mine. Fortunately, this fact was not well known in the investment community. Had it been known, some corporate raider might have bought AT&T, ended all telephone service in the United States, ripped out all the wire, and sold it to a copper refiner for a quick payback.”

Quoted from the book “Computer Networks”

Gravi Summer Gathering 2012

Today we have a company-exclusive meeting in Mecidiyeköy Office, which will precede a barbeque night. Here is this silent office before the storm

Wait what? My GPA has increased!

After a bit challenging semester, I managed to increase my GPA for 0.08 points! Now it is 2.88. I will try my best to reach 3.00 but i have only 5(+2 that i can retake) courses for my graduation.

Good Night!

This week seems to be the silence before the storm, because next week i have four exams to take. So I just try to refresh myself at this period and prepare for these exams. I started using MATLAB frequently, and it is cool to build something using MATLAB. It is fast and nearly error safe.

By the way, I started using twitter a bit intensive than before, and also challenging myself for keeping up the blog up to date.

This is an orange tree from our garden (and a corner of our house in Adana); it looks amazing, isn’t it?

Headache!

I think the title is descriptive enough!

Sunday!

You expected to see nice and funny things in this post, maybe a piece of delicious cake. Today is day to study, today is day to drink coffee and write some code; equations, too.

Introduction

My personal blogging history starts with this post!

Hello world!

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