application-development

Does a newly produced mac application need to support 10.4, and can I both support 10.4 and prepare for 64bit?

My company is in the process of rewriting our software from scratch, and I'm the one who is going to be doing most of the work in rewriting the Mac client (The core of our software is Windows based, and the Mac client communicates with it through a webservice). This isn't a real heavy app, mainly does some background work tracking stuff...

How can I write apps for the latest Sony Ericsson phones?

For me in particular it's about Sony Ericsson W715. What languages can I use and what environment do I need? A tutorial recommendation would also be nice. ...

Which development platform should I use for desktop Windows application?

After doing web development for quite a while, I am faced with a new client who wants a simple database application to run outside the interweb. He is quite adamant about using Microsoft products. "We don't want no steenking open sources" was his stance. It's been quite a while since I actually did desktop development, and most of my ...

Web UI Development - Dead End Career Path?

Hey There, I've been involved in web application development for the last 2.5 years. I don't have a technical degree nor prior technical experience -- I've broken into the industry simply through freelance / personal projects. I spent a year as a PHP / MySQL application developer, and for the last year and half I've been employed as ...

Database - where should I start from?

I am new to programming (1 year of C#-winforms) and am from a non CS background. I have not worked with databases yet. As an application programmer, how much should I know? and where should I start from? EDIT: Specific topics, books, tutorials, blogs would be appreciated. ...

Software Engineering/Application Development Contests

There are a few threads on SO that discuss coding contents & competitions. Unfortunately, many of them are either contrived problems, or based entirely on theory, math, and/or algorithms. Where can I find some contests that focus on the application development process, wherein the competetitors deliver an entire, functional & usable prod...

ASP.NET developer trying to learn Drupal and PHP

Hi guys, I know ASP.NET C# very well. I make a lot of stuff like surveys and custom web applications. I'm having a lot of trouble wrapping my head around Drupal and figuring out how to do 'special' programmatic things, like searching a list of clients, or creating a web application. 1 - I've been reading books and drupal API but I'm ...

Android ==> Aplication development ???

1- I am an iphone application developer, all iphones have very similar Operating systems, and the size and everything is the same, so I don't need to create applications specific for each iphone. But with android there are different phones, different sizes, So How can i possibly know that my app works, and looks fine on all these device...

Application development with hotkeys

I'm writing application that will have global hot keys option and I need keys binding panel where user can define their own key shortcuts. I want something similar to Eclipse binding control in Windows - Preferences - General - Keys. I see that other applications use similar concept when typing keys in that control, for example "ctrl+" i...