notifications

Ruby on Rails: Notification System For Different Sets of Tags

I have a site with a tagging system but would like to enable users to be able to subscribe to different sets of tags of their choice so that when a new submission is made and has tags that match what the user is subscribed to they get a notification. For example, say a user is only interested in red, wallpapers that are considered large....

Apple push notifications and Emoji characters...

Hello, I recently found this very interesting article on APNS and Emoji characters: EASY APNS - Just for fun It contains a list with all supported Emojis. However, I couldn't get them to display in my push notifications. All I get is the code, not the image. For example, if I add \ue415 (a smiley) to my message, I never see the image,...

UITableView - listen to bounce?

Hallo all. Ist there a way to listen to the event when a UITableView bounces back? I want to be notified, when the User releases the Table and it scrolls back to the top, i.e. he/she dragged it down so far, that one can see the background behind the table. Is there a good way to 'listen' to this and be notified? E.g. via a listener, de...

Google API Hooks, is there a way to be Programmatically Alerted When a Google Doc is Updated?

Does Google have an API for registering hooks/callbacks for whenever a document is updated? That way, I could run a process on one of my servers every time a doc was updated. If they don't have that, what the recommended way to accomplish that? Cron? Anything else? ...

Close activity via click on Android notification list. Pendingintent?

Hello Stackoverflow, I'm looking to find out how to stop an activity instead of resuming upon the click of the item on the notification list. Any ideas? Thanks! ...

Any universal notification service like Adobe Wave

Any ideas for an universal notification service like Adobe Wave? I need to send status updates (more specifically, things like document change notifications and the like). I could stick to RSS but then I will need either long URLs or HTTP authentications on feeds which not all the clients like. Adobe Wave looked promising but they are on...

Desktop Notifications, aka Internal Alert System

It has become apparent that where I work needs, internally, a "notification system". The issue being that we are very spread out throughout multiple buildings and the bulk of the work force regularly keeps there email closed for hours at a time. I need to create a simple way to be able to push out a message and have it "pop up" on ever...

Notification to the end users about a newer version

Hi, I am having an application that will be installed on various machines. Now if i have a newer version than the installed one, i need to inform the users that an update is available. An update that shows up in Mozilla Firefox about a newer version,similar to that. Is this possible to implement?? Or how those Firefox guys implementing t...

IPhone app - invoke function on incoming call

I have a piece of code (my app) which I want to run for each incoming call in the iphone. So I'm looking for a function like: On Before Incoming Call (); is there anything like that? ...

Looking for a good database structure to achieve Facebook/SO like notifications

I want to be able to have notifications on my site, similar to the way SO does it. I have looked for a good table structure to do this, but I cant seem to figure it out. I was thinking something like this. Notifications id, notification_type_id, user_id, type_id Notification Types id, notification_text Where the notification type w...

Service broker with SqlNotificationRequest

I am in the process of evaluating a Service Broker with SQL noticiation for my project. My requirements is User places a order from System A and it will update Order Table. As soon as order is place i need to notify the System B. I have done a quick POC with Trigger , Service Broker and SQLNotificaiton ADO.NET. It is working as i expecte...

How to create a status bar icon on the right side? (Android)

Notification and NotificationManager are used to create icons to be placed on the top-left position of the screen. A Notification also need to have an entry on the status bar pull-down. However, icons on the right side such as the battery, signal strength, wireless indicators do not need any entry on the status bar. How do I make such...

Scheduling notifications in Android

Hi, I need to be able to schedule multiple Notifications at different times in the future. I tried doing this with an AlarmManager, but that isn't suitable, for the following reason. From AlarmManager.set(): "If there is already an alarm for this Intent scheduled (with the equality of two intents being defined by filterEquals(Intent)),...

Intercepting outgoing Exchange Server email and modifying it

I want to be able to intercept outgoing email on a specific domain in Exchange Server and modify the headers before it is actually delivered. Basically, my company has been bought by another and where we were using MDaemon and signing all our emails with DKim and DomainKeys, the new company uses Exchange Server which cannot and will not...

Winforms - what's a cool taskbar/system tray notifier approach?

Hi What's a cool taskbar/system tray notifier approach? To get that latest cool looking sliding windows type notifications can I stay WinForms, or do I need to go WFP? Which control/class/framework should I look at? Basically after a more fresher:modern looking UI than the old winforms popular bubbles etc ...

How to stop/override a Jquery TimeOut function?

Hi, I have a small jquery snippet that displays notification message at the top of the screen in response to user actions on a page. The notification is often displayed after Ajax actions with dynamic content inside it. For example: $("#mini-txt").html("Thank you!"); $("#mini").fadeIn("fast"); setTimeout(function() {$("#mini").animate...

Dequeue notification table in Oracle

I have implemented below sample. It is working fine. I am planning to integrate with this .net application. As soon i read the entry i would like to dequeue the entry. Can any one tell how i can achive that. http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/10g/dbms_change_notification_10gR2.php Meanwhile i am trying AQ. But it does not have good ...

Apple Push Notification: Sending high volumes of messages

Hi I am using PHP to connect to apns to send some notifications to multiple devices, although the question is more conceptual so it doesn't have to be specific to PHP. I will be sending to about 7000 devices (and growing) all at the same time. My process runs ONCE per day and broadcasts to all devices, so I am not constantly re-opening ...

Windows Phone 7 Notifications/Pop/Toasts

If there a way to display a normal Notification/Toast/Popup in Windows Phone 7, which is not a Push Notification? All I want to do is to be able to give the user a message when something occurs... ...

Notification framework for java

I'm in the process of developing a web application (java + jsp) that can send notifications to users. The user can subscribe to multiple events generated by the application and can choose to receive the messages associated with those events via multiple channels (email, sms, growl?, messenger); perhaps different messages through differe...