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Recently, I started Reading Kotlin In Action by Dmitry Jemerov and learned about Data classes in Kotlin. It’s one of the best books out there to get started with Kotlin. You can buy the paperback edition of the book from Amazon.

I wrote a simple activity in Koltin which takes a user name as input and simply displays it in the TextView. Here’s how the activity looks like. And the code for the activity is,

Take a look at the below string <string name="notifications_talk_page_message" formatted="false">%s left a message on your %s page</string> The string contains a format parameter, %s which can be replaced by a string value.

It’s was a Sunday and I was bored. Then I came across a custom URL shortener service, YOURLS that I had previously used in my college days. It was very simple to set it up with my GoDaddy shared web hosting.

Am at the Prague pre-hackathon and the guys from Wikipedia UK and Wikipedia Austria gave a session on SPARQL queries. It seems to be a very cool way to get results from Wikidata and visualize it.

The Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern helps developers separate an application’s business and presentation logic from its user interface. Maintaining a clear separation between application logic and user interface helps address development and design issues, making an application easier to test, maintain, and develop.

This tutorial shows you how to add a backend service to a Windows Phone app using Azure Mobile Services. You will create a new mobile service and a simple to-do app that stores its data in the cloud using the new mobile service.

It was the last day of my third year, and I was packing my bags to go back home. Lots of companies had visited our campus for summer internship recruitment, and I didn’t get selected in any of them.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to add authentication to a Windows Phone 8.1 WinRT app using different identity providers supported by Azure Mobile Services.

Universal Windows apps enable you to target every Windows device in one solution. You develop once, share most of your code, and deploy on Windows, Windows Phone, or Xbox. In this tutorial, I will use a universal Windows app template to create a Hex Clock app, a precise hexadecimal color clock.