notifications

Gold Bar in Winforms

I need to create a Gold bar for my windows form similar to what is shown when asked to install Active X controll. Is there one available? Thanks ...

Ideas for web application with external input and realtime notification

Hello everyone, I am to build a web application which will accept different events from external sources and present them quickly to the user for further actions. I want to use Ruby on Rails for the web application. This project is a internal development project. I would prefer simple and easy to use solutions for rapid development over...

Cocoa - Notification on NSUserDefaults value change?

Let's say I have a key @"MyPreference", with a corresponding value stored through NSUserDefaults. Is there a way to be Notified when the value is modified? Or could it be done through bindings? (But this case, instead of binding the value to a UI element, I wish my object to be notified of the change, so that I can perform other tasks....

Symbian Power Status Notification

Hi, I have an application that uses memory card and I need to do some save/restore state operations when the power of the card reader is turned off and on back again. This usually happens after some time of activity and phone goes to a power save mode. In Windows Mobile I solved the same problem by receiving power notifications from the...

Suggestions for a user notification system in MySql and PHP

I am implementing a notification system and seeing if these suggestions are valid to set up, if one is better than the other or a better solution is available: A notification is added to the database. A guest / identifiable user logs onto or uses the site. They are greeted with notifications they haven't seen before with the option to c...

How do I add multiple commits in SVN into one Post-Commit HOOK ?

Hi, I have successfully implemented the post-commit email notification for the post-commit hook. Now I'm looking at a bigger problem, I don't want the hook to send email for every commit. Is there a way to use the hook to maybe write the content of the email to a text file and maybe use another hook or something to send the text file? ...

How to send parameters from a notification-click to an activity?

Hi I can find a way to send parameters to my activity from my notification. I have a service that creates a notification. When the user clicks on the notification i want to open my main activity with some special parameters. E.g an item id, so my activity can load and present a special item detail view. More spesific, im downloading a ...

Sending a notification from a service in Android

Hi, I have a service running, and would like to send a notification. Too bad, the notification object requires a context, like an Activity, and not a service. Do you know any way to by pass that ? I tried to create an Activity for each notification bu it seems ugly, and I can't find a way to launch an Activity without any view. ...

Is there some database-independent way get data change notifications at the field level?

Currently, using SQL Server 2005, I poll a "windows events" database to determine changes in a table called WINDOWS_EVENTS, which has a timestamp field. Looking at the timestamp I can determine if the row changed, but not what field in that row changed. Is there some generic (i.e. database independent way) to detect field level changes?...

Notification/messaging software for news/updates?

I think a package that would be quite useful is a centralised notification/news system. This would run on a web server and client libraries could send messages to the server. Examples of messages might be: Commits to version control. Continuous build server failures (including logs). News from project management. Users could create...

iPhone icon - Red # indicators.

Anybody know how to implement the red number indicators (like the email count notification)? I cant seem to google this up anywhere. Thanks! ...

How to send out email notification for Maven build

Hi, Is there a simple way to send out email notifications in Maven for each build without outside CI tools, just like Ant? ...

User-configurable signalling mechanism in Django

The question here is whether something like this already exists or, if not, whether there's a better way to achieve it than what I describe below. I need to allow an arbitrary Principal (User, Group, Site Admin) to add Event Sinks (like email addresses, Webhook URLs, etc.) to the system (through the web interface) and, for each one, spe...

PHP technique to query the APNs Feedback Server

Hi all, Can someone clarify what the APNs (Apple Push Notification) wants as far as how you query it? The docs say it starts sending as soon as the connection is made. Does this mean that I don't do an fread() on it? Here's my current code to try and read it. I did NOT put the fread() in a loop as I do not know what response indicates...

How to be notified a program execution and termination in c#?

Hi, is there a way to be notified when a program is executed or terminated by a user in c#? I am talking about all the programs that a user can execute, not just a certain program. I would like to be notified whenever a user execute .exe files. I can't even think of a keyword to google. any suggestions would be appreciated! ...

Best way to serialize a NSData into an hexadeximal string

Hi all, I am looking for a nice-cocoa way to serialize a NSData object into an hexadecimal string. The idea is to serialize the deviceToken used for notification before sending it to my server. I have the following implementation, but I am thinking there must be some shorter and nicer way to do it. + (NSString*) serializeDeviceToken:(...

Why the Observer in NSNotification called twice.... ?

If the class is a custom class, after posting the notification, the selector corresponding to the observer is called twice.. Is there any better solution so that the selector is called only once? ...

How to distribute: Notification service, ASP.PAGE, Workflow

Hello, I'm developing a distributed application I have a web page (ASP.NET) to submit information. This information needs to be handled on a specific way, so I'm using Windows Workflow Foundation. Let's call this WK1 (Workflow 1). During this flow I need to notify certain users and get info from them aswell, so I choose to notify the...

Cannot pass message (or Call a function) using the outlet of a customized class

When a class is customized, by using its outlet , you cant access its method. Is there any better solution to access the method of a customized class? without posting notification? To be more specific, sometimes when a Controller Class having outlets of other classes, could access the method of the corresponding classes. But the revers...

How to notify my JS client without polling?

Context: From my javascript web UI, I launch a long-running (several minutes) operation that is conducted on the .NET2.0 backend. The call returns immediately with operation ID while the long-running operation run parallel. The operations are not CPU intensive, but conduct slow network calls. Once the operation is completed, I want to se...