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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-06
Posted on 06. Mar, 2010 by Wim Haanstra.
Wallpaper 3 the full edition is approved! Lite edition is again in review! Woohoo #wallpaper #
New project on the wat, its really awesome and helps a lot of developers like me… #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-27
Posted on 27. Feb, 2010 by Wim Haanstra.
Ok I just submitted the free version of Wallpaper. Hope ppl will like it… #
Lunchbreak, not hungry, i wish the weekend starts soon…. #
OMG, why do they do this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXN9Z4Whksk&feature=related #
Watching some internet movies… #
Stress-testing WallPaper server… who says Linq to SQL cant handle big loads? 30.000 concurrent threads. #
Sometimes you make [...]
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WallPaper 3 statistics
Posted on 26. Feb, 2010 by Wim Haanstra.
While WallPaper 3 is in review by Apple, I added some statistics to my blog. In the right sidebar you see a part that looks like the screenshot below:
This displays some basic statistics about WallPaper 3, this does not include stats of WallPaper 2 and below. The previous version of WallPaper will also be abandoned [...]
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WallPaper 3.0 submitted
Posted on 20. Feb, 2010 by Wim Haanstra.
Finally! WallPaper 3.0 is submitted to the AppStore. When the application is approved, I will update this post, but here is a quick summary of the changes.
New features:
Completely new code, more efficient, more stable
Thumbnails look nicer and higher quality than before
Search through wallpapers! Every wallpaper is tagged which makes finding it a lot easier!
WallPapers are [...]
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WallPaper GUI Updated
Posted on 16. Feb, 2010 by Wim Haanstra.
Ok just a small update post, to show you that I am not dead, lost, gone crazy or anything else.
The GUI of WallPaper is still under heavy development and I am looking for the nicest way to manage this 22.000+ wallpaper library. So here are some screenshots. Not every screen is made yet, but it [...]
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WallPaper iPhone Edition – continued
Posted on 11. Feb, 2010 by Wim Haanstra.
So here are some more pics of the WallPaper for iPhone application. The collection of wallpapers is still growing because of our very nice source TheWallpapers.org.
The loading of the wallpapers is speed up by resizing them (on server) to the resolution closest matching to the iPhone resolution.The cool thing is, that this is all taken [...]
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WallPaper – iPhone Edition
Posted on 10. Feb, 2010 by Wim Haanstra.
So here are some quick screenies of the iPhone edition of WallPaper.
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Wallpaper and its progress
Posted on 07. Feb, 2010 by Wim Haanstra.
I have been working on Wallpaper a lot this week, and there has been a lot of progress. If you followed my twitter, you also know most that has happened, otherwise here is a little recap.
Wallpaper now has a new source for wallpapers. TheWallpapers.org
Wallpapers are now searchable, by their tag and name.
Not only iPad [...]
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Reading a RSS feed with the C# XmlReader
Posted on 01. Feb, 2010 by Wim Haanstra.
Today I needed to parse a LARGE (1.9GB) XML file and extract some information from it. Loading it in a XmlDocument (my favorite .NET way of handling XML) wasn’t really a possibility, because that would cause Out of Memory errors the minute I would try it.
I am using a XmlReader for this and I noticed [...]
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WallPaper iPad Edition
Posted on 28. Jan, 2010 by Wim Haanstra.
I am currently working hard to get the iPad edition of WallPaper up and running. This not only involves rewriting the application, to use the new media server I got up, but also getting a whole new library of wallpapers up there.
I am glad I decided to make my media server support multiple resolutions.
EDIT: Uploaded [...]
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