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Audio Streaming API's: Wifi vs what?

I've noticed certain radio apps, that some stations required wifi and others did not. What were those other stations possibly using? Are there other methods of streaming audio on iOS? Apparently, I was not clear in my question before. I'm asking in terms of API's. Is there an API to interact directly with say, FM radio, on iOS? Is wif...

developing smartphone apps using Rhomobile.

I have been developing an Android application for about two months now, and the guy I'm writing it for wants me to use this instead of the android SDK so we can deploy the application for multiple smart phones: http://rhomobile.com/ he says you can write the application in one language and it can be deployed for most smart phones. Has a...

An Alternative OO Language to C++ with Similar Powers ?

Greetings All, I'm looking for an OO language that support pointers and (if possible) GC. Though it would be nice NOT to enforce GC and allow for override/customize it. I'm open to both VM and binary executable languages. I'm looking for a consistent and proactively developed/supported OO language to do development with. Maybe I am no...

something similar to Emacs shell?

Hey guys, I'm looking for something similar to Emacs shell. I want to be able to select text easily in my terminal, be able to manipulate the output. Unfortunately, emacs is not always an option. I can't figure out how to make a few things (e.g autocompletion) work the way it does in gnome-terminal and it is a bit of a pain on remote ...

Small/efficient PHP database options

Subjective question, I know, but I am counting outgoing clicks for a very specific part of a website, and I'm simply needing to keep a tally of outgoing clicks per link and per day. I know that I could use MySQL for this, but I am wondering if there is something smaller/more-efficient for this application. I manage my own server on sli...

What alternatives are there to forums?

During a conversation about a site (with a forum) I am about to launch, a friend raised the point that Facebook and its ways have more or less killed off forums. Probably "killed off" is too harsh in explaining it, but he did have a point. I have heard many people saying that they would rather go to a Facebook page than visit a differen...

SAS alternative for MAC

Can you recommend me any SAS alternatives for Mac? I would not use any Parallel like solution. Which andvantage Oracle technology has in front of SAS? ...

JQuery UI object button bar that works like radio buttons

I'd like to make a control or use a control in jQuery that acts like a series of radio buttons but that looks like solid buttons instead of the radio circle. They'd look like a horizontal menu but only one could be selected at one time. ...

A free alternative for ExtJS

Hello everybody, I am looking for a framwork such as ExtJS with smiliar controls and the important thing: The Layout. ExtJS is my favorite framework, but i can't afford it at the moment for some commercial projects i want to make. I have looked at Mochaui, but that does not have the same experience that i had with ExtJS. Does someone ...

Javascript alternative height, width control.

is there away to use a different positioning system for elements. where you don't change the width and height of the element instead you can change it using left,right, top, bottom more or less like the flex controllers? ...

Alternative to HTTP Cookies?

They say Cookies are bad. I personally believe there should be a "smarter" way to detect the state of a user on a web app. Say, currently this is how it works in a distributed environment where xyz.com has many pools and servers (which i know of): User logs in xyz.com The login module of xyz.com drops a cookie on client's local machin...

Create an alternative to serializable anonymous delegates

Hello stack, there have been quite some posts about this, all trying to serialize a Func delegate. But could someone think of an alternative, when the use of the delegate is always clear? We have a generic create command, which takes a delegate as paramater in the constructor. This delegate will create the Item for the create command:...

Custom alternative content for non flash users

I have this code http://www.jsfiddle.net/Nntc7/ created by a pdf publisher, I need to offer non flash content to users but dont know javascript and I cant get the thing to work using swfobject, How do I edit this to allow for alternative content?? thanks in advance L ...

Faulty-connection Proof File Transfer Protocol?

I frequently do website development live over an FTP connection. That is to say, I use a code editor with a built in FTP window and push/pull files to work on them, upload the changes, etc. This is mostly because it's unreasonable to try to create a local development server, and I use too many computers for that to be practical anyway wi...

Are there any alternatives to C?

C++ is often touted as the evolution of C, which it is not. To draw an analogy for the kind of language I'm looking for: {Perl, Python, Ruby, Groovy} {C++, D} {Java, C#} {C, Fortran, Modula-2?, Pascal?, Go?} Do any proposed, or implemented languages fit in the same (enormous) niche as C, with the intention of being an alternative, wh...

Are there any languages that fit the same niches as C?

Do any proposed, or implemented languages fit in the same (enormous) niche as C, with the intention of being an alternative, while maintaining all the applicability to OS, high performance, embedded and other roles? ...

Do you know a css framework like Clever CSS?

I found some time ago a CSS framework like Clever CSS but I don't remember its name and I can't find it now. Do you know CSS Frameworks like Clever CSS? It was like Clever CSS, but more powerful. Thanks. EDIT: I have just realized it is actually a css preprocessor, it is like Less CSS too. ...

Alternative to NSCollectionView in pre-OSX10.5, Cocotron?

NSCollectionView was introduced in OS X 10.5, and is not yet implemented in Cocotron. I am trying to implement a small app that will allow creating properly packaged data files for an online service, which will then be uploaded by an administrator. More specifically, the user will create a collection of input and output data pairs, by d...

jquery screen size alter filename

Hi I'm struggling in getting the end bit of this jquery correct and I'm not sure if it'd work - want to add to a image filename if the screen is a certain size here's the code <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { if ((screen.width>=1024) && (screen.height>=768)) { var re = new RegExp("(.+)_hover\\.(gif|...

Alternative for Google AppEngine?

Hi, I recently had to realize a project on Google AppEngine. At the beginning I was sceptic. But there a some really nice approaches on Appengine: No server setup. Everything works out of the box. Gzip, libaries, etc. One-Click-Deployment. Fire up GAE Launcher on the Mac and klick DEPLOY. Done. Low costs Easy in-production-logging B...