notifications

Blackberry - How to use notification icon in statusbar

In RIM Blackberry OS 4.6+ there is a new feature - ability to show notification icon in statusbar. Integrated application use it to give quick and informative information for user: Dealler - missed calls, Messages - unread messages etc. Possible use of notification icon: missed events RSS updates object status (ex. weather/a...

Notification Service for Blackberry OS 4.5 application

Hi, I am developing an application similar to email application. Whenever new message is received my notification service should indicate change to user...by updating icon, also, the notification service should continuosly listen to server for incoming events. How do I achieve this? I am developing in os version 4.5. Please help. Tha...

iPhone App - Generate Alert Popups when App is Closed

In creating an iPhone app, is it possible to generate a popup alert on the iphone (similar to a Push notification) when the app has been closed. A simple example would be to have an app that can set a reminder at 5:00PM January 5th, 2010. The app can be closed and the reminder will popup at that time. I don't think this is possible bu...

Sending Notifications from a SQL Server 2000 Job without SMTP Server on the Box

I have SQL Server 2000 installed on Windows 2003 Server. We do not have SMTP installed on the box, so when creating a notification for a failed SQL Agent job, the email is not sent. Is there a way to send out a notification without installing SMTP on the box? ...

Good open-source Swing/Java component for doing MSN-like popup notifications

Hi there, I am looking for a good open-source Java component for implementing popup notifications in a Swing desktop application. The component should be able to function like the ones commonly seen in instant messaging applications such as MSN Messenger, so that just as someone sends you a message, a little ontop window slides up from...

subversion e-mail notification

I would like my subversion to send me an e-mail (and my co-workers) on every commit. There are many solutions to this, but I didn't find any that will enable me to use wildcard/regexp match on svn URL and use it to notify different group of people. Anyone done that? ...

What are some techniques to push changes from tokyo cabinet in a multi-service setup?

Let's say I have N > 1 TCP-based, connection-oriented (read: not a website) services handling connections from end users in some load-balanced/sharing configuration. These users do things that cause updates to one or more keys in the centralized Tokyo Tyrant datastore. What do you recommend to push these changes to interested users c...

Determine on iPhone if user has enabled push notifications

I'm looking for a way to determine if the user has, via settings, enabled or disabled their push notifications for my application. Thanks. ...

With a web app, how should I trigger jobs like, notifications, state changes, general repetivite tasks and checks

I am building a web application in asp.net MVC and am thinking how I can get certain conditional tests to happen regularly. Currently I am planning on having a page such as /utility/runJobs that will have a function in it that will test the whole site for dates meeting certain conditions etc.. I would then trigger this page from a serv...

Key value Observing during UIView Animations

Hi, I'm animating the center property of a view in my program. During the animation, I need notifications when center hits a particular value. I tried adding the myself as a key value observer for the center property of the view . However, I only get notified when the animation begins. So I'm unable to detect if/when the object passes ...

How to conditionally send svn commit email, based on commit message keywords?

Howdy, I've got VisualSVN running with svnnotify sending notification email via post-commit (the common setup), but I'd like to not send email when certain keywords are included in the commit message, such as "#noemail" or something similar. Anyone have an example of what I can add to my post-commit hook to look at the commit message a...

Keep track of read/unread User Messages with a MessageClicks table?

I'm trying to implement a simple Inbox system for users of my app so that can send basic messages to each other - just like in many forum systems. If User has_many :messages, how do I keep track of and notify the User of messages unread since last time they were read? I'm thinking clicks on the link to the Messages screen need to be re...

detecting windows shell changes

There is a whole host of components that I am trying out to better understand how to detect when a file or folder has changed. I want to write a delphi application to also do this but delphi Unicode(Tiburon) doesn't seem to ship with any component that can accomplish this. At least not anymore. I found a curious component on the palette...

detecting windows shell changes

I have very limited knowledge of using C Builder, could you give me an example or point me to tutorial showing how to use FindNextChangeNotification in Delphi or ,if it is possible, how to use the C component in delphi? ...

Non-standard UI in C#

Hey, I'm still learning C#, and I know don't know about WinForms yet but I will very soon. However I want to know how I would create an application which shows a customized notifier, like Growl on a Mac. Here's a mock up: Could anyone point me in the right direction? And I know I should learn more about C# before trying this, but I'v...

Disable all notifictions of incomming messages in Symbian S60v3

How do I programmatically disable these notifications when a message is arriving on my symbian S60v3 phone: Message tone (I think I got that one) The led flashing The phone vibration The screen lights up The message icon (I think I got that one too) and what SDK can I use? I prefer to use Python, but I do not think the Python SDK for...

Java: List<E> decorator implementation with notification

Hi, I need to implement List decorator class, which notify registered listeners in case of any change in list. I have subclassed AbstractListDecorator from org.apache.commons.collections15 and override methods like add(), addAll(), remove(int), remove(E) and so on with my notifying. But there are some holes in -- for example when iter...

Caching data and notifying clients about changes in data in ASP.NET

Hi, We are thinking to make some architectural changes in our application, which might affect the technologies we'll be using as a result of those changes. The change that I'm referring in this post is like this: We've found out that some parts of our application have common data and common services, so we extracted those into a Globa...

change notification on domain objects (Hibernate/Java)

Is there a solution available to subscribe for domain object changes for Hibernate or any other mainstream O/R mapping framework? For example if I have a table in a database called "Apple" I'd like to be able to say "notify me when any Apple object changed" or "notify me when field "colour" of any Apple object changed". Of course I'd exp...

Sending multiple iPhone notifications

Hi Guys, My code works ok when I need to send one notification, but each time when I need to send more than one, it only sends the first one. Here is the code: <?php $device_token = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'; $apnsHost = 'gateway.sandbox.push.apple.com'; $apnsPort = 2195; $apnsCert = 'apns-dev.pem'; $...