Managing Flutter Application State With InheritedWidgets
Everyone has heard that interactive applications can be decomposed into three parts: model, view, and controller. Anyone who has given Flutter a test drive will be familiar with its react-style support for building view/controllers with widgets and callbacks....
Hands-On with WSL: Installing Other Linux Distros
The third article of a five-part series on Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). This article is part three of a five-part series in which I discuss various aspects and functions of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). [mgamazon search="linux, windows,...
Can Google make cross-platform mobile app development suck less?
Today, Google is holding a developer conference in London for Flutter, a new development environment for developing mobile apps for both Android and iOS. Google calls Flutter a “portable UI toolkit,” and Paul Miller has called it “a Frankenstein’s monster of various...
Google, Amazon, Microsoft: How do their free machine-learning courses compare?
Machine-learning engineer was the fastest growing job category in the five years to 2017, according to LinkedIn. But tech's hottest role isn't a simple field to break into, requiring at least high school math and some programming knowledge, even to get started....
Apktool : A tool for reverse engineering 3rd party, closed, binary Android apps.
A tool for reverse engineering 3rd party, closed, binary Android apps. It can decode resources to nearly original form and rebuild them after making some modifications. View original article
Writing Your First Electron App | Electron
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The Electron Open Framework and Why It’s Awesome for Apps Development
These days, there are many types of desktop devices, along with the many different operating systems that run on them. As such, getting programs that work on all of them can be a bit of a challenge. And that’s where Electron open framework comes in, as a way of...
Push data into a Power BI dataset from PHP and Laravel Application
I had a request to Integrate Microsoft Power BI Reporting tool to a custom Developed ERP Product which is based on PHP Laravel Frame Work and My SQL Database... After several hours of research and studies through the documentation, I end up with a successful effort....
Executing Dart in the Background with Flutter Plugins and Geofencing
Whether handling push notifications, location updates, or sensor events, many useful features require that an application has the ability to handle events without user interaction, even when not running in the foreground.
Executing Dart in the Background with Flutter Plugins and Geofencing
Whether handling push notifications, location updates, or sensor events, many useful features require that an application has the ability to handle events without user interaction, even when not running in the foreground.
Google open-sources AI that can distinguish between voices with 92 percent accuracy
Diarization — the process of partitioning out a speech sample into distinctive, homogeneous segments according to who said what — doesn’t come as easy to machines as it does to humans, and training machine learning algorithm to perform it is tougher than it sounds....
Flutter for Desktops, Windows or Mac?
Has anyone tried this? https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding
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Migrating a PHP 5 App to PHP 7 (Rundown of PHP 7 Features) – Part 2
TL;DR: Many PHP applications are still running on PHP 5.x, not ready to take full advantage of the awesome features that PHP 7 offers. View original article
Migrating a PHP 5 App to PHP 7 (Development Environment) – Part 1
TL;DR: Many PHP applications are still running on PHP 5.x, not ready to take full advantage of the awesome features that PHP 7 offers. View original article
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.
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.
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,...
Delphi optimization tools and patches
At Andy's Blog. Includes DelphiSpeedUp, IDEFixPack, VCLFixPath among others.
Composer with WordPress, how to
by SCOTT WALKINSHAW
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...
PHP 7.0 released
Official release at PHP.net
Optimize Eclipse: better speed, better memory usage
by Nicolas Bize.
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.
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...
Open source ODB-II reader for Android
Available at https://github.com/pires/android-obd-reader
Android Studio 1.4 is out
Full release notes here.
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.
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...
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). How To Publish an Internal Windows App on Azure Remote App (creating VHD in your PC and uploading it later to azure) Same as above, but...