This Saturday, October 22, 2011, is the day for Columbus Code Camp. The event is hosted at Tech Columbus and will feature a full day of code centric presentations. The event is sponsored by a number of large tech corporations, which means that it is totally free to attend. As a working developer I greatly [...]
I came across this compilation of papers recently. Although I have yet to read any of them, maybe one of these days…
Last night, The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon.com Inc. is in talks with several publishers about launching a subscription service for their Kindle line of e-book readers. The service would charge users a monthly fee to access a digital library of e-books, similar to Netflix’s current video-streaming library. This would prove to be great [...]
Q: What is Google plus? What does it offer? What’s the difference between Facebook and Google+? A: Circles, Hangouts, Sparks, Photos sync with Google docs, Google apps calendar and more. It’s way better… Don’t believe me see for yourself… sing-up for a Gmail Account now.
PHP 5 provides us with the ability to introduce magic into our code via its set of Magic Methods. These methods get called automatically (depending on the situation) and allow the developer to add extra capabilities to their scripts. I am going to focus on a set that I found to be useful in creating [...]
Although the smart phone Easton application has been available since 2009, it’s new to me. I have to admit I’m impressed by its functionality. The Easton Town Center shopping district developed a store directory application that offers directions, phone numbers and operating hours of its tenants. With a variety of mobile applications available, it is [...]
When developing a web services portion of a mobile targeted API, there are several key features that can make a developer’s task much easier. The WCF platform provides a developer with many such features, as well allowing the framework to be written in a familiar – and in my opinion, excellent – language. In addition [...]
Ever wonder how change the page layout of all your products in Magento through the admin back-end with one fell swoop? I did recently and came to the conclusion that you can’t. The only option is to make changes directly to the database, which seems simple enough. However, to a developer that is fairly new [...]
Seagate announced today that they will now be offering a mobile wireless storage device for iOS devices. According to their press release it is “the first battery-powered external hard drive to wirelessly extend the storage capacity of any Wi-Fi enabled mobile device.” The device can store 500 gigabytes of data. It has enough [...]
Google held it’s annual I/O Developer Conference this year on May 10th and 11th, holding sessions ranging from that’s-what-we-expected to I-want-it-now. Being stuck in Ohio, I wasn’t able to attend, but here are some key points that I found to be interesting. You get a car! And you get a car! The freebies alone would [...]