May 17th, 2013
Matthew Delmarter's insight:
The IntelliJ platform was made open source in 2009. Google has selected it as the base platform for their Android Studio and is working with JetBrains to optimize support for Android development based on the IntelliJ platform. As a user of PhpStorm, also based on the IntelliJ platform, I can vouch for the platform and will be interested to see what Android Studio is like.
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April 16th, 2013
Matthew Delmarter's insight:
Want to install the latest version of PHP on Mac OS X? Maybe you want to try PHP 5.4 or even 5.5 beta? I have found the easiest way to do this is to use the one-line installation packages found at http://php-osx.liip.ch/.
Enjoy.
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March 31st, 2013
Matthew Delmarter's insight:
It was not encouraging to read that Google Reader is being dropped as part of Google's "spring cleaning". Unfortunately this has a massive spin-off effect as most useful RSS Readers – mobile and desktop – use Google Reader to manage the feeds underneath. This interesting article steps back in time to show how Google has basically built the RSS feed reader industry to what it is today, only to turn around and crush it.
The question I am left with is who is going to step up and fill this space?
See on www.zdnet.com
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March 30th, 2013
For the last several weeks, speculation about what Google Glass could mean to the world has been rampant, but access to the wearable technology has been incredibly scarce. Until a week ago…
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March 23rd, 2013
Google’s Android platform is powered by a novel technology that transcends conventional hardware and software.
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March 6th, 2013
The numbers are in and they don't lie. Windows 8 market adoption numbers are well behind Microsoft's greatest previous operating system failure, Vista.
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March 4th, 2013
Matthew Delmarter's insight:
The new REST client toolset coming in PhpStorm 6.0 could have interesting possibilities…
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February 15th, 2013
The New Zealand police department will be rolling out 10,000 iOS devices to frontline officers within the next few months as part of a new technology overhaul, with the force opting to go with Apple's iPhones and iPads after testing a rage of platforms.
See on appleinsider.com
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February 5th, 2013
Apple quietly unveils AppStore.com vanity URLs – first noticed during an add for the upcoming Star Trek during the Super Bowl.
Matthew Delmarter's insight:
A much nicer way of linking directly to App Store content, rather than the long-winded itunes.com links. Using an AppStore.com URL that includes the app or company name, you can create links to a single app or all your companies apps. These links are accessible worldwide and will automatically direct users to their country’s respective App Store.
Examples:
AppStore.com/Pages
AppStore.com/Apple
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January 31st, 2013
Single page web applications – or SPAs, as they are commonly referred to – are quickly becoming the de facto standard for web app development. The fact that a major part of the app runs inside a single web page makes it very interesting and appealing, and the accelerated growth of browser capabilities pushes us closer to the day, when all apps run entirely in the browser.
Technically, most web pages already are SPAs; it’s the complexity of a page that differentiates a web pagefrom a web app. In my opinion, a page becomes an app when you incorporate workflows, CRUD operations, and state management around certain tasks. You’re working with a SPA when each of these tasks take place on the same page (using AJAX for client/server communication, of course).
Let’s start with this common understanding, and dive into some of the more important things that should be considered when building SPAs.
Matthew Delmarter's insight:
An excellent review of considerations for building any modern web UI – not just SPAs…
See on net.tutsplus.com
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