Category: Articles
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NativeScript example, step by step, Windows 10
A tiny, 5 minute, tutorial on creating a new empty project using NativeScript + TypeScript, compiling it and running in Android.
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tip: Volley comm library for android, available via Gradle
Previously, in order to use Volley, the only way was to add the “jar” file to the project – not anymore – official volley is now available, just change the app.gradle file:
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Converting multi-page PDF to PNG using ImageMagick
Quick tutorial on converting PDF files to PNG using ImageMagick in CentOS.
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Download Android Apps with Source Code
Available at f-droid is a directory of open source android apps (full with source code). A great learning resource for beginners.
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Web font generator
At fontSquirrel. You upload your font and it generates every known format, CSS code and even embeds fonts inside CSS using base64 data.
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Public Datasets
Available at Xiaming’s Github, Awesome Public Datasets are (mostly) free. Subjects include Agriculture, Biology, Climate/Weather, Complex Networks, Computer Networks, Contextual Data, Data Challenges, Economics, Energy, Finance, Geology, GeoSpace/GIS, Government, Healthcare, Image Processing, Machine Learning, Museums, Natural Language, Physics, Psychology/Cognition, Public Domains, Search Engines, Social Networks, Social Sciences, Sports, Time Series and Transportation.
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Delphi optimization tools and patches
At Andy’s Blog. Includes DelphiSpeedUp, IDEFixPack, VCLFixPath among others.
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Composer with WordPress, how to
by SCOTT WALKINSHAW
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Compile PHP 7 FPM + CLI from source, without touching the installed PHP 5.x
The following explains how to install PHP 7.0, from source, without uninstalling your current PHP. I used this in a development and continuous integration machine, so i can test both PHP 5.6 or PHP 7.x, ensuring our apps are php7 ready. As i am using Apache + Mod_php for PHP 5, i will use FPM…
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PHP 7.0 released
Official release at PHP.net
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Optimize Eclipse: better speed, better memory usage
by Nicolas Bize.
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VMWare player, fixing “virtual disk needs repair”
This one pops up from time to time, and VMWare Player has no tool to fix it. Worry no more, Christos Matskas found the solution.
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Android’s RecyclerView, item clicks, how to
RecyclerView is a great class what you should consider over ListView for building list interfaces. It offers more flexibility and has built-in hooks that make implementing animations and custom layouts much easier compared to ListView. Unfortunately RecyclerView is missing a couple of features that ListView had built-in. For example the ability to add an OnItemClickListener that…
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Open source ODB-II reader for Android
Available at https://github.com/pires/android-obd-reader
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Android Studio 1.4 is out
Full release notes here.
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Cloud only MS RemoteApp inside VNET
This scenario is not (yet) supported in Microsoft Azure as it requires Active Directory. So, the obvious solution is the solution.
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Project Islandwood: Objective-C for Windows?
Project Islandwood is now open source (MIT license), with all the code residing at github. This project includes and Objective-C compiler (sadly no Swift for us Objective-C haters), Objective-C runtime, iOS headers (this is the “bridge” bit that translates iOS calls to Windows calls) and Visual Studio integration.
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Publish your own apps to Azure RemoteApp
A small collection of useful bookmarks on how to publish your own apps to Azure RemoteApp (or your own Windows Server 2012 R2).