Updated: 22 May 2012 I've done some research into the different Mobile Development Platforms, as there's now so many different offerings from different manufacturers. Here's the current state of play:- iPhone / iPad Objective-C using iOS development platform Android Java using Android SDK development platform BlackBerry [...]
Next book to work through is 'Android for Programmers' - from the Deitel Developer Series. This book contains 16 fully coded Android apps, giving explanations of how various functionality has been achieved. Apps areas include - Twitter searches, slideshow, quiz, games, calculator, drawing, weather and pizza [...]
I've now finished working through my first book on Android Development - 'Beginning Android Application Development' by Wrox. This book has given me a good introduction to Android development and I'd definitely recommend this book to those beginning Android Development. I really like the way its [...]
Continuing learning Android Development using the book 'Beginning Android Application Development' from Wrox. Today, completed Chapter 11 - Publishing Android Applications. This featured: - How to prepare your apps for deployment - Exporting your app as an APK file and signing it with a new certificate [...]
Continuing learning Android Development using the book 'Beginning Android Application Development' from Wrox. Yesterday, completed Chapter 10 - Developing Android Services. This featured: - Reasons for needing a service - Creating services that run in the background - How to perform long-running tasks in a separate [...]
Continuing learning Android Development using the book 'Beginning Android Application Development' from Wrox. Just completed Chapter 9 - Location-Based Services - This featured: - displaying Google Maps in your Android application - obtaining a Google Maps API key - using MapView in your app - from [...]
Continuing learning Android Development using the book 'Beginning Android Application Development' from Wrox. Now working on Chapter 8 - Messaging and Networking - currently looking at Networking and downloading binary data, such as bitmaps. This Chapter also features Web services, so that will be good to [...]
A collection of various Development News links. News at Developer.com http://www.developer.com/ Java News at Developer.com http://www.developer.com/java/ Android News at Developer.com http://www.developer.com/ws/android/ Mobile News at Developer.com http://www.developer.com/ws/ .NET News at Developer.com http://www.developer.com/net/ Apple Developer News https://developer.apple.com/news/ The Register Developer News http://www.theregister.co.uk/software/developer/ Web Developer News http://webdevnews.net/ MSDN Developer News http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ff972295 [...]
Currently learning Android Development using the book 'Beginning Android Application Development' from Wrox. Have worked through Chapter 2 - Activities and Intents - quite a lot of information to cover there, including:- - Creating an activity - Life cycle of an activity - The function of [...]
Now learning another aspect of Java development - this time for Mobile devices - and specifically Android devices. Working through the book 'Beginning Android Application Development' from Wrox. Have got the Android SDK and Platform downloaded and setup, using Eclipse plus the Android Development Tools plugin. [...]
Setting up development env on Linux, for Java/Hibernate/Spring development (continued...) Next step is to install/setup Spring Framework - Installed an older version of Spring Framework in order to match more closely the version used in the book. Copied the spring.jar file to lib directory for the timex project. [...]
Now setting up my development environment on Linux (Ubuntu on an Oracle Virtualbox) for use with the 'Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse' book. So far, have set up the Linux boot with:- Java - Due to issues with Oracle and Linux had [...]
Now getting the sample application up-and-running, which is an online Timesheet system, built using Spring Web MVC Framework. Have worked through chapters 5 - Using Hibernate for Persistent Objects, 6 - Overview of Spring Framework, 7 - The Spring Web MVC Framework and 8 - Eclipse. [...]
Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse Have just started working through this book, it seems a good introduction to the world of Agile Java Development: covering the Spring Framework, Hibernate, Eclipse, also Java dev tools like Ant and JUnit, plus the methodologies Extreme Programming [...]
Can download a free trial version of IBM Websphere MQ from this URL http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/download/search.jsp?pn=WebSphere+MQ
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Managed to get the Uniface 9.4 APS Trial working on Windows7 - took 2 tries. Here's the full details and steps followed:- - Install Solid 4.5 database - Add the Solid license file to the bin directory of Solid (should have got an email from Compuware [...]
