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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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Tools for Universal Windows Apps 1.1.1, Visual Studio Emulator for Android, Tools for Apache Cordova Update 3
“Tools for Universal Windows Apps 1.1.1: This update, which is what you’ll get with a new installation, fixes a bug in Tools for Universal Windows Apps 1.1 where Visual Studio failed to create a package for a UWP app that uses a WinRT component.” View complete article
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GlyphSearch is your free Icon Search Engine
“Each icon font library has their own icons and no iconset is created equal. But with so many to choose from it can be difficult finding the best one to suit a new project. GlyphSearch was made as a way to visually filter through icons to find the best one for your current project.” View…
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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).
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PHP MySQL Extension will be deprecated soon
“Have you ever considered that programming is a lot like construction work? Every day I put on my work belt full of the tools I will need to construct the latest and greatest application. I have building plans in hand so that I can set a proper foundation for the frame.” View complete article
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Youtube example using ExpandJS and Polymer
“ExpandJS is a modular library with 80+ custom elements and 350+ utility functions to kickstart your Web Applications. The elements are built upon Polymer and follow Google’s Material Design guidelines, allowing for beautiful and responsive interfaces.” View complete article
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iOS 8.4, what’s new
Apple just released iOS 8.4 for iPhones 4S and iPad 2 or greater.
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Exploring the new Android Design Support Library
“I’m a massive fan of material design. Everything about it provides a strong feeling of consistency between applications and as a whole makes them both easier and more aesthetically pleasing to use.” View complete article or check out the official article at http://android-developers.blogspot.pt/2015/05/android-design-support-library.html
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Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution For Linux And Mac
“Last November, Microsoft said that it would bring some of the core features of its .NET platform — which has traditionally been Windows-only — to Linux and Mac. Today, at its Build developer conference, the company announced its first full preview of the .” View complete article
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Android Lollipop Showcase, by Mike Penz
A good example of CardViews, RecyclerViews and other Lollipop goodies by Mike Penz. The example is available at Goolge Play, source code at Github.
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Material design for Bootstrap 3
“Today we review Material Design Bootstrap 3 theme. This theme is a new skin for your website, in case if your website is built with the Bootstrap framework 3. The theme doesn’t affect the Bootstrap core. For ease of use – LESS/SASS version is provided.” View complete article
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Social Logins in PHP with HybridAuth
“A trend in many of today’s websites is a feature that allows users to sign in via their social network accounts. A classic example is the SitePoint community where users have the option to use their Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo or GitHub account to log in without having to register an account.” View complete article