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Building an Application with the Twitter API

he Getting Started with the Twitter API article described how Twitter’s founders see it as more than simply a web site where people can send short messages to those who

The Mono 2.0 Offerings for Debian GNU/Linux.

ebian GNU/Linux and Mono are two leaders of open source software. Debian is a Linux distribution with a social contract that places it among the best examples of free and

Have It Your Way

love to say that I hate to whine, when referring to things about Windows Vista that drive me nuts, but clearly, I don’t hate to whine. I apparently love to

Legitimize Your Mobile App: Get It Signed

f you’re just setting out to develop your first mobile application, you may still be grappling with the fundamentals of installing SDKs, obtaining hardware, and scaling your application to the

Getting Started with the Twitter API

When I first heard about twitter.com, a service that lets people publish messages of up to 140 characters at a time and subscribe to other twitterers’ message feeds, I wasn’t

Find and Generate Missing Values in an Access Table

equential values can represent a lot in a database. Sometimes they uniquely identify records (as primary key values). Often they’re part of the natural data, such as a purchase order

Changing the Style of a String in JavaScript

JavaScript’s String object provides functions that display style of the text: big() blink() bold() fixed() fontsize(&ltsize&gt): This function takes a parameter to specify the font-size in pixels. fontcolor(““): This function

Encode and Decode URLs Using UTF-8

This tip shows you how to encode and decode your URLs using the UTF-8 character encoding: import java.net.*;public class URL_Encoder_Decoder{ public static void main(String[] args){ String url = “@sir de

Flexible and Powerful Data Binding with WPF

hough ata binding is pervasive in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), it’s also different enough that you’ll need to rethink the way you use it in your applications. .NET 3.5 SP1,

Laying the Foundation of a Semantic Web Application

The article Why Migrate to the Semantic Webdescribed the benefits of the semantic web for applications that deal with real world objects. It outlined how an existing web application (CDMS)

Smoothly Blending Java and SQL with pureQuery

Modern software development is, famously, a collaborative process. Unfortunately the tools we use to develop software don’t always reflect that home truth. Consider an application written in Java that uses

SQL Techniques for Performing Operations on Matrices

atrices are very useful mathematical objects that science and technology professionals use to describe real-life scenarios and build abstract models for those scenarios. You will find matrices used in economics

Build Composite WPF Applications

hen you build complex UI applications, it is all too easy to end up with a messy, tightly coupled, interwoven mess that is difficult to develop and maintain; and impossible

Inside the iPhone: Getting Started

y now, you should already know that Apple has lifted the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) that bound developers to confidentiality regarding their work with the iPhone SDK. Developers are now free

Measuring Enterprise Architecture’s Value Proposition

As enterprise architecture (EA) matures into an established discipline in most moderate to large scale IT organizations, EA is increasingly being challenged to demonstrate objective evidence of its contribution to

Calling a SOCKS Proxy Server from Java

This tip shows you how to call a SOCKS proxy server from Java code using the Socket class: SocketAddress addr=new InetSocketAddress(?socks_server_proxy?, socks_port);Proxy proxy=new Proxy(Proxy.Type.SOCKS,addr);Socket socket=new Socket(proxy);InetSocketAddress final_addr=new InetSocketAddress(?final_server?, final_port);socket.connect(final_addr);?

PHP and SMIL: A Happy Combination

n this article you will see how to use the Synchronized Multimedia Integration language (SMIL) and PHP to add great slideshow presentations to your web sites. If you’re not already

Managing Your WPF Splash Screen’s Lifecycle

splash screen is created upon application startup and is ended after the the main Window class’s initialization code executes. Professional-looking applications geenrally use splash screens to let their users know