development

Android: Reusable code to create multiple DatePickers

Hi all, Still early days on my Android development journey but I'm wanting to streamline the creation of DatePickers as outlined in the "Hello, Date Picker" tutorial (link to tutorial). I've created a class which extends Activity that accepts a few layout references in a bundle and is then supposed to handle the DatePickers. I then st...

How to build an Operating System for Motorola L7 phone?

Is there a way for me to build my own Operating System for Motorola L7 phone? How do I go about building it? Are there any Online resources that can help? ...

iPhone development time...

I have been asked to develop a relatively simple iPhone application. However, it would be my first application. I am a fairly competent programmer and can turn my skills to a new language fairly quickly... what my question is, is... How long has it taken some of you guys to make your first iPhone application and what was your experien...

Advice needed: the most fitting web development solution for me

Hello, Recently I've been asked to develop a small web site/application. The site should have some code behind it as in any web application, and the client also needs CMS editing capabilities. He is familiar with Joomla, so he wants the same experience. I have vast experience in writing ASP.NET (C#), and almost no experience in PHP. ...

Is it possible to write an OS for a mobile phone?

Is it possible for me to write a OS for a mobile phone? How do I go about building it? ...

Is it possible to develop Mac OSX apps on Windows?

If so, how would one get started? Basically, I'd like to port a Windows app to Mac without having to purchase a costly Apple computer. ...

Autogenerating WPF/Silverlight Views (scaffolding)

Are there any tools out there to autogenerate the different components used to make up a WPF application? Model, View, View Model, XAML form? ...

How do I implement audioStreamDesc.mSampleRate = audioStreamDesc.mSampleRate * 1.2; into my code?

I'm trying to make a sound mixer iphone app, but I can't seem to do speed control. I've looked over the posts, and this seems like the thing to do, but how do I implement it into the program? ...

iPhone/Android app development tutorials?

Hi, I'm looking at jumping on the band-wagon and knock out a couple iPhone and Android apps. I'm not a complete beginner as I have programmed in quite a few languages, with my current focus on PHP and Drupal development, but I have not developed for either the iPhone or Android before. I have downloaded the respective SDKs, but I was ...

How to locally test Django's Sites Framework

Django has the sites framework to support multiple web site hosting from a single Django installation. EDIT (below is an incorrect assumption of the system) I understand that middleware sets the settings.SITE_ID value based on a lookup/cache of the request domain. ENDEDIT But when testing locally, I'm at http://127.0.0.1:8000/,...

Running C# app inside browser as a plugin

I have a small 2D game engine written in C#, using DirectX. Is it possible to somehow run it in a browser as a plugin? Like for example Flash and others, where you go to a site with a game and it will ask you to install a certain plugin and then you can play the game in the browser, with mouse and keyboard input. I have searched around f...

What has your experience been like developing for the Netbeans platform for cross platform development?

I am familiar with the Netbeans IDE, but I want to know about people's experience with using Netbeans as a development platform (i.e. using its prebuilt modules for fast gui development). I have a program that I want to write, and I am thinking about using this platform. ...

What language makes a strong developer these days?

What modern language is good at creating strong developers these days? Python, Ruby, C++, C sharp ... developing for the iPhone? ...

SharePoint Custom Module Development and Deployment

Good Day, We're working on custom module (Information Management System) for SharePoint. The project file of this module is a Class Library which contains User Controls. The User Controls was based upon SmartPart and AJAX Extension Toolkit. The module has a separate database which has tables/views/stored procedure. On development envir...

Multiple environment (Development, Staging, Live) in Drupal

Hi guys, I am sure the title is pretty much the question but I would like to explain a bit more... Drupal is great CMS but it lacks of process to achieve multiple environment (Development -> Staging -> Live) Why I need multiple environment? For example, the site live and you want to add functionality or amend something, of course u do...

Customized right click Menu in a Web Page text area!

Hello there, I'm developing an application in C# using visual web developer. I'm displaying some text for reading and I want the user to be able to select a word or fragment, and then right click it to display a customized menu (One that has for example define, search, show grammar...). I I don't know how to do it. I'm fairly new to th...

Android dev, SmsManager and double SMS

Hi, I am using following code to send sms message: SmsManager sms = SmsManager.getDefault(); sms.sendTextMessage(phoneNo, null, message, null, null); But when this code is executed two sms messages are sent. Does anybody have idea what can be a problem? I am using HTC Tattoo with android 1.6 I have tested this code on HTC Hero and e...

My Account link in most e-commerce sites . reason to have one before log in ?

I am developing a new e-commerce website in java. My index page has links such as Login etc. I had gone through other e-commerce sites such as ebay where they have option of My Account. My question is before signing in to the account ,why do they need this link My Account. what is the significance of this. can any web designer let me kno...

SPGridView and SP Menufield for approving list items from SPlist

I am using spgridview for showing listdata,also using spmenufield. I need to perform approve operation on any selected/clicked item from spgridview. Can you please help,how can i achieve this? ...

Equivalent of Mongrel/Webrick for PHP Development?

Hi all. Is there an equivalent in PHP development to using Mongrel/Webrick during Rails development? I normally use Mongrel on port 3000 to serve up my Rails app during development. Its been a couple of years since I've done PHP development. From what I recall, the method was to run Apache on the dev machine during PHP development (w...