development

Sharepoint 2010 Reference Resource Suggestion?

Anyone have a suggestion for a decent book / web resource for Sharepoint 2010 technical information? I'm looking for one that provides a technical breakdown of both the design and development aspects of the system (ie. C# library reference + code examples AND user level design tutorials). The resources provided on MSDN are pretty poorly ...

Formatting number as percentage

I don't understand how NSNumberFormatterPercentStyle works! Example: NSNumber *number = [NSNumber numberWithFloat:90.5]; NSNumberFormatter *percentageFormatter = [[[NSNumberFormatter alloc] init] autorelease]; [percentageFormatter setNumberStyle:NSNumberFormatterPercentStyle]; NSString *strNumber = [percentageFormatter stringFromNumbe...

Development cost versus maintenance cost

I'm trying to explain the ratio of development versus maintenance costs to our sales department, and currently I have mostly my gut feeling that we spend about 60% of the time with maintenance. We have some persons on the team who tends to sell custom solutions, that we have to build, and if the sales people doesn't understand the total...

how to Custom build a javascript API based on Jquery and some questions about the syntax used in Jquery.

Hi all, I come here with quite a bunch of questions so lets start: I want to know some things about the syntax used to make jquery as I wish to learn from it an use it for my self. Question 1: The starting of the jQuery library (function( window, undefined ) { // Define a local copy of jQuery var jQuery = function( selector, conte...

iPhone save data getting deleted on upgrade?

I have an app in the app store, and just got a message from a user telling me that upon upgrading to a newer version of the app, their saved data all disappeared. Is there a distinctly wrong way to save data on the iphone that would cause data loss upon upgrading the app to a new version? Here is the code I'm using to load & save, whic...

Joomla component development: Save, apply and cancel toolbar buttons not working

Hi, I am following the lessons on component development in the "Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development" book. I've followed the instructions in the chapter exactly, creating a component I call "carousel". I've only created the Admin back-end, and I'm able to view the form for creating a new entry or edit existing one, but cannot sav...

How to handle invalid CLHeading updates?

When there is magnetic interference the built in heading calibration message is displayed. Also I noticed that if location is not available, magnetic heading is valid but not true heading. So what is the standard or best way to handle invalid heading updates? Should I just keep waiting for a valid heading to be received or show some cu...

Sharepoint: how long would it take to add document management to an ASP.NET site?

Hi I am an experienced ASP.NET C# developer who is investigating using Sharepoint for document management for one of my clients. They want an intranet site with blogs and other stuff in addition but this will need to adhere to their brand guidelines. Apart from the faff of setting up a working development environment to what extent do ...

Cross-Platform Single-Instance IDE Setup

I like to carry software around with me on a USB flash drive. I also like to work in both Windows and Linux. Finally, I like to develop software using powerful tools. Bringing these three things together, I want to be able to carry an IDE around with me. My favorite choice is Eclipse. So, I tried to get an Eclipse install working on...

iphone redirect shell command

I am working on an jail broken iphone app that calls a shell command. To read the output I redirect the output of the command to file. That is where my problem lies. When I attempt to do the redirect sh reports that the operation is not permitted.this is the exact output of gdb: sh: ./tmp/tmp.out: Operation not permitted Also I call my c...

Problem with displaying Contacts like App on iPhone

Hi, I am trying to create a contacts like app for iphone where the name of contact is displayed on the top (to do this I am writing code in viewForHeaderInSection) and then the details follows in the grouped section. The problem is I am retrieving the values from database and if the first name is null it is displayed on the table. I wan...

STL on custom OS - std::list works, but std::vector doesn't

I'm just playing around with a grub-bootable C++ kernel in visual studio 2010. I've gotten to the point where I have new and delete written and things such as dynamically allocated arrays work. I can use STL lists, for example. I can even sort them, after I wrote a memcpy routine. The problem is when I use the std::vector type. Simp...

Which Android Development blogs you follow

Hi, which are the top Android development blogs that you follow. Please do not mention forums or general android products blogs ...

how to drag & drop buttons on Iphone

Hello I am developing for Iphone by using Netbiscuits tool. I need to use drag & drop functionality on IPhone. I have found a javascript code which locates at Drag Drop Javascript Library for iPad & iPhone. However I am not able to use drag & drop functionality by usng javascript code which was given at the website. Have you ever added ...

Local or Server Based Crawler that Detects the PHP version of a script

I have custom scripts that are were written near the change of php4 and php5 and I am looking to find all of the php4 versions easily so that I can rewrite them so that they work with php5.3. Is there a tool that can perform this on my local machine or the server? ...

Custom Ribbon button in SharePoint 2010 showing up as disabled

I've create a custom ribbon button that only shows up the Insert block for a blog post. On my dev environment, it shows up fine. When I deploy to another environment, it shows up, but is disabled. I can't figure out how to enable it. Button is enabled and okay on my dev environment Button is disabled on other environment, where I'...

Firefox extension development: How to find out if window has focus

Hey :) how can i find out if the active window has focus or no focus (means: hidden, minimized or what ever) ? I fetch the active window with "Application.activeWindow" but lets say i minimize the window or change focus to another program than firefox. How do i figure out that the window has no focus ? Example: setInterval(function() {...

Looking for Android Development Java Game Script

Hello everyone. I'm working on developing a game in Java for android phones and I was wondering if there was a place to view a complete game script so I could see all the components and how it's setup? Kind of like a dissection self-tutorial. Either a developer or website that offers game scripts in their entirety for android phones? I'm...

Uploading test iPhone/iPod application from iTunes ?

Hi, is there a way to upload application to registered development device from Windows PC with iTunes ? My boss want to see current beta version on one development iPod touch, but he uses Windows 7 and iTunes ... no OS X, no XCode. Is it possible ? 10x! ...

iPhone 3 v 4 v iPad ui. Raster vs vector

I'm the design guy on a new iPhone project and am curious on the eat practices for the up elements in the iPhone 3-4 dev. I know the dpi is different between the two and am curious how best to handle this with the dev guys. Do I need to make 2 of everything or do we need to figure how to make vectors of things like buttons , backgrounds ...