Category Archives: Developement

Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers

The Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos designed to help you learn how to build applications that are compatible with and shine on Windows 7.

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Take a Look at the Windows API Code Pack for the Microsoft .NET Framework

The Windows API Code Pack for the Microsoft .NET Framework provides a source code library that can be used to access some new Windows 7 features (and some existing features of older versions of the Windows operating system) from managed code. These Windows features are not available to developers today in the .NET Framework.

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NetBeans IDE 6.8 Beta Available for Download!

The NetBeans team is pleased to announce the availability of NetBeans IDE 6.8 Beta.

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Dive Into HTML5: Video on the Web

“HTML5 defines a standard way to embed video in a web page, using a video element. Support for the video element is still evolving, which is a polite way of saying it doesn’t work yet. At least, it doesn’t work everywhere. But don’t despair! There are alternatives and fallbacks and options galore.”

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Zend Framework 1.9.4 Released

The Zend Framework team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
the 1.9.4 release. This release is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.9
series.

You may download it from the Zend Framework site .

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nWire for PHP Released: Real-Time PHP Code Visualization and Exploration

Ever got lost in a sea of code, overwhelmed by the complexity of your application? Good news, there’s an app for that!

Visualize, navigate and search PHP code with nWire for PHP, a plugin for Eclipse PDT and Zend Studio 7. nWire provides innovative code analysis for large scale and enterprise PHP applications, enabling significant development cost reduction.

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Android Application Development

stoolpigeon writes “Google’s mobile OS Android has received plenty of press. As with a lot of Google products, there was much anticipation before any devices were even available. Now a number of phones are available, with many more coming out world-wide in the near future. Part of the lure of Android is the openness of the platform and the freely available tools for development. The SDK and accompanying Eclipse plug-in give the would be creator of the next great Android application everything they need to make their idea reality. The bar to entry in the official Google Android Marketplace is very low and it doesn’t seem to be much of a stretch to predict that the number of developers working on Android is only going to grow. As with any hot technology the number of books will grow as well and O’Reilly’s Android Application Development has jumped into the fray, promising to help budding Android developers what they need to get started.” Read on for the rest of JR’s review.

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Internet Explorer 8 Developer Series Overview

In this video, Matt Hester describes the main topics covered in the video series, including CSS 2.1 and 3.0 features, HTML 5, native JSON, selectors, AJAX navigation and developer tools.

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PHP in Action Blog: Bad code is good for you?

In a new post to his PHP in Action blog Dagfinn asks the question “is bad code good for you?” He wonders if bad code really is a good thing and how it can be split out from the good parts of your application.

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Rafael Dohms’ Blog: PHP Security: Are you paying attention?

In a recent post to his blog Rafael Dohms reminds readers to not forget about the security of their applications because it can be “a huge mistake which can take a turn for the worse.”

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