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By chco  | Today, 03:39 AM | 0 Replies

The following excerpt from REST in Practice describes how to build a RESTful service that use hypermedia to model state transitions and describe business protocols. This particular example models the...

By Chuck Bell  | Yesterday, 01:11 PM | 0 Replies

If you need to include additional columns on the slave that the master doesn’t have—for example, to record timestamps or add routing or other localized data—you can add columns to a table on a s...

By blackbear  | 21 June 2010 - 05:56 AM | 6 Replies

One of the more useful (from a developer standpoint) features coming in iOS 4 (formerly iPhone OS 4) is the UIAutomation tool. This lets you run an automated set of tests against an application, and ...

By chco  | 12 October 2010 - 06:57 PM | 0 Replies

In the following excerpt from Javascript Patterns the author speaks to the use of object literals, their proper application, and offers a few examples. When you think about objects in Ja...

By BrianSawyer  | 09 June 2010 - 12:17 PM | 4 Replies

When working on Best Android Apps, we wanted to test as many apps on as many different devices as we possibly could. Now that the book is in print, we're adding new apps, updates, tips and tricks,...

By chco  | 11 October 2010 - 06:57 PM | 0 Replies

If you have a number of XML documents, all based on the same tags, you can make them look completely different just by using a different style mapping and page layout. The following excerpt from XML P...

By mike-loukides  | 26 October 2009 - 12:36 PM | 2 Replies

Given a longitude and a latitude, what's the great circle distance between them? The formula for this computation, and many others, is available at the Aviation Formulary, by Ed Williams: QuoteT...

By Maximiliano Firtman  | 11 October 2010 - 11:06 AM | 0 Replies

Remember: most mobile devices are also phones! So, why not create link-to-call actions? If you’re creating a business guide, or even for your own unique phonebook, most people will prefer to cal...

By chco  | 10 October 2010 - 06:07 PM | 0 Replies

The following excerpt from Javascript Patterns explains the different ways to use for loops in Javascript and recommends the best pattern to optimize your code.In for loops you ite...

By Doron Katz  | 10 October 2010 - 01:29 PM | 0 Replies

I like millions around the world love GMail and the new features keep coming and coming. But have you ever missed some of the features you get in Microsoft Outlook that you don't have generally in...

By chco  | 08 October 2010 - 05:43 PM | 0 Replies

There are many ways you can learn about Flex. This excerpt from Getting Started with Flex 4 highlights a few select resources. As you explore these resources, you will surely discover even more source...

By joshclark  | 08 October 2010 - 03:16 PM | 0 Replies

Awkward isn't always bad. The ease and sensitivity of touchscreen interfaces can also work against you. When it's too easy to trigger an action, mishaps ensue. Unlocked phones fire off surpris...

By adfm  | 17 February 2010 - 05:33 PM | 1 Reply

Keep your design consistent when using jQuery UI widgets. In this excerpt from jQuery Cookbook the authors introduce the ThemeRoller web application. To have jQuery UI widgets used in your websit...

So here was my problem: I needed to be able to produce hi-resolution movies of live screen presentations with audio.And because these presentations were two hours long people wanted chapter/section m...

By chco  | 18 August 2010 - 11:12 PM | 1 Reply

Here's a helpful listing of some of the keyboard shortcuts that you can use with the Kindle. This is an excerpt from Kindle: The Mini Missing Manual.The Kindle has a keyboard, so why not keyboard ...