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2015 Recap: What I Did (I Think)

matthiasshapiro8 years ago7 years ago010 mins

2015 has been a hell of a year. My New Year’s Resolution for 2015 was, whatever I worked on, I had to keep pushing through on it until I had something I could show for it. No more orphaned projects… I would bring my projects to a sharable state before I could move on to…

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How To Drink Water and Respect Your Users

matthiasshapiro8 years ago8 years ago014 mins

I’ll never not find this funny… I usually use this cartoon with a caption about how we as product developers look at our users. I generally try to keep my musing about politics and my professional life as separate as possible. But I’ve been thinking over an intersection between my passion for user research and product…

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Saving and Loading App Data (Windows Store C# UWP / 8.1)

matthiasshapiro8 years ago53 mins

Every application needs to save information, usually in the form of objects or lists of objects. To ease Windows (Phone) app development, I have my data saving process templated in a Visual Studio snippet. It’s an incredibly useful way for me to build out the basics quickly, especially for prototyping. Download Snippet First, we need…

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Load a PDF in Windows Store App (8.1 & UWP)

matthiasshapiro8 years ago03 mins

I’m working on a project where users are going to load a PDF, but will be returning to the same PDF again and again. I was having some problems with Microsoft’s normally amazing PDF showcase application on lower end devices (my app needs to run well on an original Surface), so I tested this solution out. So far it’s…

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