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By chco  | Yesterday, 01:52 PM

To get a good handle on all the data you can accrue for your Facebook pages, Facebook has provided its own system in Insights. The following excerpt from the O'Reilly publication The Facebook Mark...

By cricketliu  | 15 September 2009 - 10:20 AM

If you want to configure a name server to work through a firewall, or configure a firewall to work with a name server, configure your firewall to pass the UDP and TCP traffic that a...

By Ángel Manuel García Carmona  | 26 February 2011 - 12:57 PM

A geometric progression is a sequence of numbers obtained after multiplying the former by a constant called the rate of progression. For example: 5, 15, 45, etc., is a series whose ratio is 3. Then to...

By VandadNP  | Yesterday, 05:19 AM

This is the ultimate debug-killer! This is the third video in the series of videos that I've prepared, teaching iOS developers how to take advantage of some of the most awesome features and ma...

By chco  | 04 March 2011 - 12:31 PM

It's a good idea to maintain an identifiable uniform look when creating an application. The following excerpt from the recent O'Reilly publication Designing Interfaces, Second Edition can help...

By sarahkim  | 02 March 2011 - 03:18 PM

The following excerpt from PayPal APIs: Up and Running walks you through the steps required to setup Paypal's Mobile Express Checkout for your mobile app or mobile website.PayPal provides a Mobile...

By chco  | 03 March 2011 - 11:44 AM

This excerpt from Mining the Social Web will help you get up and running with Facebook's OAuth 2.0 implementation. As with any other OAuth-enabled app, to get started you’ll need to acquire an a...

By macslocum  | 26 April 2010 - 05:03 AM

Want to use your Android phone's data connection to access the Internet through your computer? There's a number of options, but one is easier that the rest: simply download a couple programs and twea...

By macnlos  | 03 March 2011 - 08:49 AM

Dual cameras, 33% thinner, accelerometer screen, HDMI output, faster processor, dual core processor, faster graphics (9x), magnetic cover, white version, new software OS, new applications (Garage Band...

By bjepson  | 04 April 2010 - 04:44 PM

Back when the iPad was announced, my friend Morgan and I talked about a concern some people have with the iPad. Because you can't program right on the iPad, we run the risk of depriving kids of wh...

By chco  | 02 March 2011 - 02:41 PM

Many Unix, Linux, and Mac OS X users enjoy using the powerful, platform-agnostic text editors vi and Vim, but there are far too many commands for anyone to remember. The following excerpt from the rec...

By chco  | 01 March 2011 - 12:08 PM

Should you need to observe memory usage for your app, the iOS 4 SDK contains a useful option. The excerpt below from Learning the iOS 4 SDK for Javascript Programmers explains how to use it....

By andyo  | 02 December 2010 - 11:11 AM

This excerpt deals with an apparently simple question: what is the most convenient office space layout for collocated software teams? Intuitively, we know that space and the distance and accessibility...