What are Online Compilers & Online IDE's?
Introduction
It has always been difficult for programmers to organize and work on projects across a variety of locations, computers, and devices – especially when you work in teams. When you store
Binding Web Pages with nHydrate
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Introduction
Wiring up a web page to a backend database can be tedious. You have to use some type of data access layer (DAL) and then map this to fields
A Fast Loading Windows Phone 7 NavigationList Control
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A few months ago, I blogged about the relative performance of the Windows Phone 7 emulator versus the same code being run on real hardware. There were a couple of take
Metro in Motion Part #4 – Tilt Effect
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So far in the “Metro In Motion” series, I have covered fluid list animations, ‘peel’ animations, and flying title. In this blog post, I am looking at the 'tilt’ effect
iOS 4 in Action - Fetching Events with Grand Central Dispatch (GCD)
iOS 4 in Action
Developing iPhone & iPad Apps
By Jocelyn Harrington, Brandon Trebitowski, Christopher Allen, and Shannon Appelcline
Though multicore is not available on iOS devices, Grand Centr
An HTTP POST client for Windows Phone 7
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Silverlight and Silverlight for Windows Phone offer a great way of simplifying HTTP GET requests: WebClient class. WebClient encapsulates the primary logic of the Http
Write a console app on Android using Java
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CmdConsole #:-)>
Introduction
During development of Android application, sometimes I want to write a small class and test its functions in a fashion sim
A Simple Windows Phone 7 MVVM Tombstoning Example
This blog post shows how to implement tombstoning within a Windows Phone 7 application that following the Model-View-ViewModel pattern.
I have to admit Windows Phone 7 tombstoning had me in a bit of
Is RIM the Next Novell?
At one time, Novell was the king of the networking hill. Anyone interested in becoming a network administrator had to know Novell. Then Microsoft came along and took their lunch money pitting the grap
Metro In Motion #5 – SandwichFlow
For the past few months I have been writing a Metro-In-Motion blog series which describes how to recreate some of the fluid effects found in native Windows Phone 7 applications within your own applica
Metro in Motion Part #1 – Fluid List Animation
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The Windows Phone 7 user interface is based on the Metro Design Language, which favours clear typography, content over chrome, and simplicity. If you want to see practic
Metro in Motion Part #2 – ‘Peel’ Animations
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In my previous blog post, I discussed how the Metro Design Language that heavily influences the Windows Phone 7 style is not just about static graphics, it is also a
Catel - Part 6 of n: Bing Maps application for WP7
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Catel is a brand new framework (or enterprise library, just use whatever you like) with data handling, diagnostics, logging, WPF controls, and
Metro in Motion Part #3 – Flying Titles!
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This is the third in my “Metro in Motion” series where I am looking at how to re-create some of the stylish transitions and animations found in native Windows Phone 7
LINUX: The Power of HERE Documents
After doing things the manual, brute force way, you will be able to truly appreciate the elegance of HERE documents. If you wanted to create a file with a few lines of text in them, you would redirect
An Introduction to Design Pattern (Part 1)
Prerequisite
It will be better if you have a rough understanding of object oriented programming and its concepts like encapsulation, polymorphism and inheritance. If you don't have those then this
LINUX: Sub-shells
I mentioned sub-shells before and the way the affect aliases, but I did not talk much about the use of sub-shells themselves. A sub-shell can be quite useful in scripting, either to isolate certain en
Eneter Messaging Framework 2.0
Introduction
The Eneter Messaging Framework is a lightweight framework intended for communication between processes. The second version of the framework supports all features and API from the previou
AJAX Cross-Origin HTTP request
Background
Cross-Origin HTTP request (A.K.A. Cross-Domain AJAX request) is an issue that most web developers might encounter, according to Same-Origin-Policy, browsers restrict cli
LINUX: Creating Macros in VIM Editor
A fantastically efficient way to repeat a series of actions is to use a macro. You may be familiar with macros from common products like Microsoft Word. They are quite easy to create and use.The simpl