Ruby golf is the art of writing code that uses as few characters as possible. The idea originates in the world of Perl (where it is, unsurprisingly, known as Perl Golf). As a language, Perl is well... Read More
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Today I’m going to take a bit of a break from writing about Orny to discuss Apple’s APIs for Twitter integration, newly introduced in the iOS 5 SDK . Specifically, we’re going to cover the... Read More
Rey Bango has previously shown us how to overlay an icon for pinned sites to notify users of activity. Now, he demonstrates how to rotate the icon images used to convey more sophisticated information.Read More
Just how easy is it to use overlay icons with pinned sites? Rey Bango shows you the code that makes it happen.Read More
One of the most innovative features of Windows Phone is the Start screen with its Live Tiles. In the original release applications were limited to a single Tile that the user could pin to the Start... Read More
In this series of articles I am discussing the creation of charts and graphs using nothing more than Quartz 2D, a graphics rendering API created by Apple, which is a part of Core Graphics. You might... Read More
The potential for HTML5 video and audio to change our approach to using multimedia in websites is immense. Malcolm Sheridan looks at their practical application. Read More
To create a line graph, I am going to reuse the same project that we used for drawing bars in the previous part of the series. We won’t need the logic for drawing bars anymore, so comment out a... Read More
The previous post in this series was called Theory of a Cloud Based Photo Sharing App using Windows Phone and Azure . We went through the architecture for a simple image sharing application. Steps 1... Read More
Let’s make a collective decision here. We’ll stop treating A-grade mobile phones as aliens, and see them for what they are: powerful, capable devices, running powerful rendering engines.... Read More
Ever since Windows Phone first shipped almost a year ago there has been almost endless discussion about what the next update/version will include. The first major update earlier in the year saw the... Read More
When I joined the team I have been working with recently, they were trying to create a graph using Core Plot, a popular third party library. It didn’t go well though, there were two big problems.... Read More
In part one of this mini series, we tackled the question of implementing a slider when you want to create a range of values, not just one. If you haven’t read part one, you’ll be feeling a... Read More
One of the commonly used iOS controls is the slider control. It’s a great, all purpose slider, that allows you to quickly swipe your finger along the screen to set a value. Things get a little... Read More
