development

Vim setup for Android development

Can anyone describe a good vim setup for Android Development? I'm using Eclipse for now but I would really like to use vim because it's faster and I like it better. I'm not interested in Eclim for example. I'm interested in what vim plugins are used (for java, autocomplete etc.), how the vimrc looks like and how the whole process of bui...

What are the difficulties encountered when development teams work on incompatible platforms?

And what are some ways that they can minimize them? Thanks! ...

What is Developer in the Settings App?

I updated my iPod touch to iOS4, and connected it to my Mac. I opened Xcode's Organizer, and clicked 'Use for development.' Since then, when I open te Settings App on my iPod, there is an extra section between 'Safari' and 'Nike+' called 'Developer' (it is not Safari's debugging console!). When I select it, the awesome navigation contro...

UI presentation control across many discrete web apps

Our company currently has 7 separate large Internet facing web applications. They all have the following have different look and feels that represent the branding style of the time when they were built have different UI and backend frameworks based on when they were built separate teams supporting and developing each built over differe...

ipnoe development ..need to fade text over a back ground image

i wish to have a lable with text that appears and the slowly fades over a background image. and have a lable on the image with text but i wish it to stay for i second and then gradualy fade im using xcode and utalising interface builder. thanks ...

Structured Programming Environment

A frequent question I get during an interview is whether I'm a lone programmer who shoots from the hip or whether I like a structured work environment. I think I'd prefer a structured work environment, but my jobs thus far have been under a non-technical boss who gives me a vague requirement and modifies the project ad hoc. So I guess ...

Are you responsible for deploying your code to a live environment?

...or do you have to go through someone else (a person who manages the servers) to get your code deployed? I understand the policy of not letting everyone log onto a live production server but I would like the ability to have access to my code, database and files once they are live. How is it for everyone else? ...

RESTful uploading of a file in PHP

Hello Everyone, So I'm working on a script that's going to upload a video to a server via a RESTful interface. The documentation tells me that I should pass the data (including the binary video file) as part of a POST request. I know how to set my POST variables, but I'm not sure how to do the binary data. The API says I should have a ...

Mac development - Start with MacRuby or Objective-C?

I want to dive into developing applications for the Mac and later also for the iPhone. For me as a Rubyist it is clear that I learn both, MacRuby and Objective-C. The question is only in which order I should do that. Is it easier to learn Objective-C first and then combine the knowledge of both worlds and start learning MacRuby, or is it...

How long can it take to develop an iPhone application like pocketMoney??

Hello everyone, how long do you guys think it should take to develop an app similar to pocketMoney? This is my first iPhone App and my Objective-c knowledge is pretty much academic, I'm the only developer, I had never touched Core Data or Core Animation before. ...

Is it important to setup a SVN server for one man web project?

I know that SVN Server is very useful for version control, but it is necessary for a one man project to do a web application? (it may invite more member to join in the future, but at this time, just a one man job. ) if it is necessary, any setup manual or recommendation on this? Thank in advance. ...

What would you consider a decent spec for a developer desktop?

What would people assume is a good development pc spec? I'm not looking for how cheap can I get away nor for what would be the ultimate machine. We speaking java server side development and Ajax web development. Some DB work. ...

planning to create a website - help needed

Hi, I want to create a website, just out of passion. I do not have much web programming experience( zero experience ) but I do have good Java programming skills. I am planning to do my development on WAMP stack so that it would be easier to migrate at a later stage if needed. I have the following questions: 1) How to design a good dat...

Cocos2d iPhone sdk: removing background from tilelayer when running an action?

I am try to apply an action to a tilelayer of a cctilemap, but when it starts, the layer adds a black background below the tile layer, which covers anything below it. How would I go about removing this background, or changing it to transparent? ...

mod_python for python 2.7

I recently downloaded python 2.7 on my computer (x64) and I would like to install mod_python for it (I have apache 2.2), however, I can't find a mod_python release supporting python 2.7. Has development stopped? If so, what should I use instead? ...

User View Profile

Hi All, I am building an application for my client and I am not using any frameworks . Question came up when building viewing user profile My client wants to see the user profile URL like mywebsite.com/Johnd - should give Johnd profile mywebsite.com/KJohns - should give KJohns profile I have implemented URL mapping like http:/...

How can I search in other apps using global search

I'm new in Android programming and want to know if it's possible to search in other apps. I mean, I want to find all notes which have #yellow inside the text. Something like when I use the QuickSearchBox, but I don't want to open the notepad app. Instead I want to read this note inside my own app. Or the same with the calendar, I want ...

Reference file outside of Web site directory

How do I reference a file outside my web site's root directory? For example my website is located at C:\dev\TestSite I am using ASP.NET with XSP. The webapp will be deployed on Apache using mod_mono. I have images in C:\images and I would like to do this: <img src="C:\images\logo.gif"/> ...

Grails cannot find plugin provided view after modifying controller

I created a grails plugin in which some domain classes, controllers and views were added. After creating the plugin, I imported it in a grails application by using "grails.plugin.location.'...' = '.....'" in BuildConfig.groovy. Everything is okay when the application starts up. And, everything is nice when online modifying the view GSP...

What is the common solution to setup Eclipse for team development?

Should every team member create his or her own workspace and import project stored under source control? Or is there a way to put workspace under source control too? How to avoid using absolute paths in workspace configuration? Are there other bottlenecks in this task? ...