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Mobile Confusion

With last week’s release of the 3G iPhone, things are really heating up in mobile software development. My inbox is flooded with announcements–Nokia going open source, Google phone rumors, Windows

How to Calculate the Alignment in C++

Use the following class to help calculate the alignment in C++: template&lttypename T&gtclass Alignment{ struct Align { char align; T t; };public: int alignment() { return sizeof(Align) – sizeof(T); }};

Turn Off Auto-Commit for Better Performance

When you first establish a connection to a database, the connection is in auto-commit mode, by default. For better performance, turn auto-commit off. You can do this by calling the

New Web Fonts for Windows Vista

Microsoft has released a number of new Windows Vista fonts, for use in web development. They are described on the Microsoft Typography site, with examples shown in XPS files. If

Create the “Night” Filter Using the RGBImageFilter Class

The following code uses the RGBImageFilter class to create the “night” effect on an image: import java.awt.image.*;public class NightFilter extends RGBImageFilter { double frac; //0.0&lt=g>=16; int green=rgb & 0x0000FF00;green>>>=8; int

Probe and Modify Your Types’ Alignment Programmatically

he alignment requirement of your target platform is usually transparent. However, when you need to send or receive objects via a network connection, serialize objects, design heterogeneous containers, or construct

Semantic Technologies with Functionality

When I started with DevX, I knew nothing of the Semantic Web and the technologies that surround it. As I researched the subject, I realized that while a segment of

Getting Started with OpenCalais and SearchMonkey

any digital documents reside on the web and other networks, but few of them have sufficient metadata to accurately identify the content. Adding metadata to a document has typically been

Using the innerHTML Property

To change the text that appears when users click on a button in your program, use JavaScript’s innerHtml property. &ltscript type=”text/javascript”&gtfunction changeText(){ document.getElementById(‘boldStuff’).innerHTML = ‘Fred Flintstone’;}Welcome to the site, dude

Create a “Night” Filter Using RGBImageFilter

This following code shows you how to create the “night” effect for an image using the RGBImageFilter: import java.awt.image.*;public class NightFilter extends RGBImageFilter { double frac; //0.0&lt=g>=16; int green=rgb &

Prevent Inheritance from a Base Class

Use code such as this to prevent subclasses from deriving from a base class: class myclass; class my_lock { friend class myclass; private: my_lock() {} my_lock(const my_lock&) {} }; class

Introduction to the Live Search API

ave you ever wanted to implement search capabilities on your own Web site but didn’t want to implement the logic and deal with issues such as storage and indexing? Now

Beyond XML and JSON: YAML for Java Developers

espite all the buzz generated by dynamic languages (Ruby, Groovy, Python, etc.) and their related frameworks (such as Ruby on Rails), the vast majority of Java developers reading this article

Mastering the Windows Mobile Emulators

icrosoft owes a large part of its success to the various development tools it has offered to the developer community. If you have experiences developing on other platforms, you would

Are Expectations of Privacy Age-Related?

An interesting split is becoming obvious in computing today; older people (among them those who were instrumental in empowering computing and the modern web), are increasingly worried about privacy, while

Search Google via Email

For all those people who cannot access internet from the office, there is no need for it. You can search and receive Google search results through email. Simply send an

Use UNION ALL Instead of UNION

To improve query speed, use the UNION ALL statement. UNION ALL looks for and discards duplicate rows in the result set, whereas the UNION statement does not.

Create a “Fog” Filter Using the RGBImageFilter Class

This following code shows you how to create a “fog” filter for an image using the RGBImageFilter class: import java.awt.image.*;import java.awt.*;public class FogFilter extends RGBImageFilter{ int fogg; //0

Getting Started with Windows Live Admin Center

hen developing with Windows Live services, you open your application to a whole new world of software integration. In this fascinating realm of mash-up mania, developers can find tools for

Eight Key Practices for ASP.NET Deployment

his article presents some best practices that you can follow to deploy ASP.NET applications in production mode. These practices help you avoid problems both during and after deployment. 1. Version

Java ME User Interfaces: Do It with LWUIT!

ne of the hardest things about developing Java ME applications, especially for Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC)/Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) apps, has been trying to figure out how to

Bringing Semantic Technology to the Enterprise

s seen at the recent 2008 Semantic Technology conference in San Jose, serious interest in corporate use of semantic technology continues to grow rapidly. Semantically-enabled applications are increasingly seen as