So in previous questions about iPhone development on Windows, the basic/easy answer has been "just get a mac." However, I noticed a comment that mentioned DragonFireSDK. But no one else said anything about it? Has anyone tried this? It look pretty legit to me, but I'm new to the iPhone world. I just find it weird that no one has discu...
Hi, can you advice me a book or something else containing good practices about how to build/structure a web application in a way that will be easy to extend it with an Android/iPhone version later. I am currently trying to get into Django so it will be nice if the practices are related to it, but every hint will be appreciated. ...
Hi am trying to learn web development using python. I have some previous experience using php but as such am a total amateur. I am using web2py after dabbling around with django,pylons,turbogears stuff etc and find myself quite productive with the framework. However I want to know what is the entire process in web development. I mean , t...
Hi, What would you advice to a development team that is about to move to a new technology (Let's say from asp.net application to SilverLight where no one in the team has an experience so far on SL development, or for a similar case)? How should be the learning, experiencing, planning, development and other phases should be orchestrated...
From the moment I faced python the only thing I can say for it is "It is awesome". I am using Django framework for it and I am amazed how quick the things happen and how developer friendly this language is. But from many sides I hear that Python is scripting language, and very useful for small things, experiments etc. So the question is...
Hello I develop iPhone applications and some of managers want to have development snapshot version on their devices. Does anybody knows how make it in right way? thank you ...
Hey, Because the the UISwitch is not so easy to customize i decide i wanna build one alone. that works pretty good except for one thing. i was subclassing UIView when i was building it and now i dont have the "ValueChanged" control that i need for the Interface builder. can some1 tell me how can i add ControlEvents to my custom control ...
I have an activity that calls a custom view when a button is pressed. The custom view runs fine until I try to add an ImageView to it. I have tried this in my xml that is called in my main activity with setContentView: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" andro...
Most(if not all) of the MVC frameworks provide an abstraction layer over the database and except in some very special cases you do not need to write SQL code by hand. Of course you need to know basic things to design your model but do we need deep knowledge how to optimize queries, make triggers and other db stuff. ...
Hi @ll I am currently searching for a good book about iPhone and iPad development. It should cover the current API and should also include best practice methods and some examples for developing apps. Also important for me is that not so common APIs like the AV Foundation are also handled in the book. A beginners guide is not needed (I c...
Actually i would like to modify the replaceWord function of the spellchecker. I tried (in my own firefox extension) onInit: original_replaceWord = InlineSpellCheckerUI.replaceWord; InlineSpellCheckerUI.replaceWord = function() { // things i would like to do (i.e. set the Cursor to another spot in the editor) // call of the o...
I would like to learn game programming. Just to give you a background I am a programmer and understand the concepts of programming and am very object oriented. I have worked with languages such as php, javascript, flash, java, and a little c++. Now from my understanding most of game programming is done in either python or c++. Now I hav...
Hey I'm pretty much working on a platformer and still starting out so I was curious about best practices/algorithms. I have in my background just a castle and about 200px high at the bottom some grass which slightly curves up and down. In the middle (which is part of the background png) I have a rounded rectangle rock. So nothing is its...
Seeing what it gives I see several huge advantages: Better approach to bug-free programming. Example. If you have to enable/disable a menu item with imperative programming, you should not only remember on what condition this item is enabled, but also don't forget to track all the moments where this piece of the code should be executed....
Greetings, I am a software developer and English is not my first language. I always thought English is really important to developers as most APIs and tech books are written in English. However, my friends don't think so. They say that as a developer, I don't need to talk to customers for example, so I don't need a high level of the ...
Hi, I'm an Objective C developer. The new announcement of the Flash for iphone got me kinda worried. can some 1 explain how good is that package and if the need of objective C developers/companies is gonna decrease ?? can you do really nice applications and games in a much easyer way ? please advise me in that matter Sincerely ...
Hi I want to create a custom Module for Footer which shows the news Headlines.Havent played with custom modules yet.How can i do that.can anyone tell me simple steps to craeate a custom module. Thanks ...
Hi, I am developing an app but have yet to get the optimal navigation flow working. To give you an idea of the structure of my app, I have a main view that allows the user to start a new game or view high scores. At the end of a game, I would like to give the user the choice of viewing high scores or going back to the main menu - I hav...
I'm in the process of fully automating our provisioning system, a system capable of deploying, updating, repairing and maintaining staging and production servers with a very little "human interaction". the person to achieve the task needs to be very acquainted with Linux systems and scripting languages. I'm using tools such Control Tier...
I am developing a django application on my MAC. The development server that comes with django is great. However, I installed the django-authopenid (combines django-registration app with openID) which follows the 3 step process: user signs up, app sends a confirmation email with link, and user clicks on link to confirm sign-up. Since ...