Category: Articles
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Running Windows 8 inside VirtualBox
Small step-by-step guide on how to install and run Windows 8 Developer Preview under VirtualBox.
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Wunderlist for Android is going native, drops Appcelerator Titanium Mobile
Appcelerator’s approach to the Android platform has made another victim, a significant one: 6Wunderkinder’s popular Wunderlist ditched Titanium Mobile (TM) for Android, and is now a native app. “(…) Wunderlist is now native – smaller, faster and more stable.” Matthew Bostock, 6Wunderkinder’s blog Translated, Wunderlist got rid of TM’s biggest problems: Size: even the smallest…
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Now that WebOS died, which is the best development crossplatform for iOS, Android, RIM and WP7?
Yes, the excellent WebOS is defunct, and it will never be the mainstream player as, at least technically, it deserved. For all of us developing for the mobile world that don’t have the time or budget to develop natively in all the mainstream platforms, its one less player to target. Myself, personally, am deciding/evaluating available options for…
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Titanium Mobile’s Android development now less painful than Prostate Exam – Mobile SDK 1.8 (!) + Fastdev
A few days ago, Appcelerator announced a really cool new feature: Fastdev for Titanium Mobile. This thing cuts dramatically development times for Android apps as all the wait time spent recompiling and re-publishing the app to the emulator simply disappears!
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Titanium Mobile SDK 1.8 available
Titanium Mobile SDK 1.8.0 is already available in the Appcelerator’s continuous integration (CI) area: Just choose the “master” branch and download the latest SDK files for your O.S.!
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Updated Titanium autocomplete for 1.5.1 using Eclipse and Aptana
Here is the uploaded javascript header file, updated for Appcelerator’s Titanium Mobile version 1.5.1. This can be used with Eclipse+Aptana’s autocomplete, using the method described by James David Low a while back.
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Titanium Autocomplete
James Low has a AppCelerator Titanium’s API AutoComplete for Eclipse+Aptana. Download it here http://jameslow.com/2010/05/31/titanium-autocomplete-eclipse/ I haven’t tried it yet, I’m using notepad++ still, but I’ll give it a go ASAP!
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c# for iPad?
Yet a another alternative to Objectve-C/XCode has arrived: MonoTouch, the non Microsoft dotNet implementation, supports the new useless computer-without-a-keyboard -slash- big iPhone, Apple iPad.
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Using .net assemblies inside SQL Server: Quick start guide
Are you are an experienced .net programmer and you are too lazy to learn TSQL stored procedures, triggers or functions? Yes? Then read on this quick start guide on using .net assemblies inside SQL Server using SQLCLR.
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Building a Zend Modular CMS Tutorial
A series of blog posts have been created covering the development of an extendable, modular CMS system, currently up to part 7 with ACL, Database, Navigation, Config, Bootstrapping, and Translate, already built in. This is a good way to start using/understanding the Zend Framework.
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Security Developer Starter Kit
The Microsoft SDL – Developer Starter Kit offers 14 modules of content, labs, and training to help you establish a standardized approach to rolling out security development policies and industry best practices into your organization. Download it here
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Check if a service is installed with ServiceController using LINQ
If you want to check if a specific NT Service is installed you will need to use the ServiceController class (from System.ServiceProcess). The first problem you will encounter is that the ServiceController has no static method, that would return a Boolean, specifying if the service is installed or not (e.g. ServiceController.IsInstalled(‘MyService’);) – so, to solve…
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Reading image metadata with .net 3.0
When you take a picture today your digital camera, something is stored in the JPG file other than the image itself: digital cameras store information such as camera model, date taken, metering mode, focal length shutter speed and in some cases a small thumbnail image; some news agencies, such as Reuters (see chopper.jpg image in…