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By chco  | Today, 12:49 AM

The following excerpt from the O'Reilly publication DNS and BIND on IPv6 offersa practical look to adopting IPv6 and how you'd set up a Dynamic Resolver to work with it. IPv6 supports several ...

By chco  | 12 May 2011 - 04:56 PM

There are two ways to create a user interface (UI) in Android. One is declarative, and the other one is programmatic. They are quite different but often are used together to get the job done. The foll...

By msilver  | Yesterday, 05:41 PM

If you work at a company which uses a “everyone in the company” catch-all address for internal announcements, you may occasionally receive a deluge of email due to your coworkers’ abuse of the R...

Phone and credit card may soon become phone or credit card thanks to near field communication (NFC). And that's just the beginning — NFC could very well usher in the long anticipated "Internet of Th...

By blackbear  | 01 August 2011 - 07:44 PM

Until recently, the only want to do UI testing of your iOS applications was to use the UIAutomationFramework, which was buggy, very difficult to code for, and could not be run in an automated fashion,...

By chco  | 01 August 2011 - 04:58 PM

The exhaustion of the IPv4 address space wasn’t unexpected, of course. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) developed IP version 6 in the 1990s largely in anticipation of this day. Likewise, t...

By chco  | 01 August 2011 - 02:35 AM

Once you have created your application, it is time to publish it to an Android installer file, which is an archive file with an .apk extension. Flash Builder provides all of the tools to accomplish th...

So I was wondering - do I have to upgrade my Dell XPS 420 PC to install a new SATA III SSD? The motherboard support only SATA II and I wondered if I purchased a cheap SATA III PCI-e x2 card and used ...

By chco  | 29 July 2011 - 01:30 PM

This excerpt from the O'Reilly publication Developing Android Applications with Flex 4.5 will walk you through building your first AIR on Android application using Adobe Flash Builder 4.5. If you ...

By chco  | 29 July 2011 - 04:08 AM

The excerpt below from the O'Reilly publication HTML5 Geolocation offers a few examples on what you can do with Geolocation and the different ways you can exploit it to your benefit. There is no d...