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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Anyone who’s been involved in web development for any length of time has likely encountered the Developers VS Users situation. It’s a mistake that can often lead to expensive problems down the road. So what exactly is the problem? And how can you spot it–and solve it–before it derails you project and causes you to [...]
By: Michael Gray
Topics: Web Development
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Developers who have occasion to interact with YouTube videos should prepare for a slight (but important) change concerning video page URLs. They’ll be altered just enough to screw a few things up.
The change is as follows: a question mark in the URL will be replaced over time by an exclamation mark. And a post on [...]
By: Doug Caverly
Topics: YouTube
Monday, March 8th, 2010
Google has added Android development and Python programming to its Google Code University offerings.
“The content – developed by some of the best schools and professors around the US – is cutting edge. And since all of it is Creative Commons licensed, you can even download it and reuse it in your class,” says Google Education [...]
By: Chris Crum
Topics: Android, Google, Python
Friday, March 5th, 2010
Recently, there has been a lot of debate in the search engine marketing community about some of the more simple or basic elements of search engine optimization, a web page’s meta tags. When I refer to meta tags, I am specifically talking about the meta description tag and the meta keywords tag. Combined with the [...]
By: Bill Hartzer
Topics: SEO, Web Development
Friday, March 5th, 2010
This is not a trick question, but more of a pushback on the recent FUD that various people have been spreading. Quotes such as ‘HTML5 video uses 10% CPU while Flash uses 100%’ were both unprofessional and not backed up by any actual data. The short answer to the above question could in fact be [...]
By: Stefan Richter
Topics: Flash, Web Development
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Google introduced the Google PowerMeter API today on code.google.com. The API is for developers interested in integrating with Google’s home energy product, PowerMeter.
“This API will allow device manufacturers to build home energy monitoring devices that work with Google PowerMeter,” says Product Manager Srikanth Rajagopalan on the Google Code Blog. “We’re launching this API in order [...]
By: Chris Crum
Topics: APIs, Google
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Anyone who’s become discouraged about the prospect of becoming a developer on a full-time basis may gain some inspiration from Edward Kim. Kim, who’s behind the five-month-old Android app “Car Locator,” announced that sales are now in the neighborhood of $13,000 per month.
In a blog post, Kim gave a fairly complete overview of how he’s [...]
By: Doug Caverly
Topics: Android, Apps
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Swing Buttons provides many exclusive features that are not found in the Button class defined in the AWT package. Swing Buttons are the subclass of AbstractButton class,which extends JComponent. You can always associate an icon of your choice with a Swing Button. The Icons are set as program runs or set when some event is [...]
By: Vaibhav Pandey
Topics: Java, Web Development
Monday, March 1st, 2010
Microsoft has updated its exam for application development against the Bing Maps Platform, as part of “Microsoft Learning.”
“For those of you who are new to Microsoft Learn, it’s all about getting certifications,” says Chris Pendleton on a Bing blog. “Certifications lead to qualifications. Qualifications lead to being added to respective lists. Being added to respective [...]
By: Chris Crum
Topics: Bing, Bing Maps, Microsoft