Archive for the ‘Monologue’ Category
Monday, April 11th, 2011
Designers, Developers, System Administrators and companies spend a lot of time trying to optimize their networks and content delivery systems to achieve optimal performance with the minimum resources possible. At first, there was a simple browser/proxy cache schema, then the “If-Modified-Since” and ETags HTTP headers where introduced. Nowadays CDNs seem to blooming and all the […]
Posted in Apple, Featured, I'm an Idiot, Monologue, Personal, Security, Web | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
So, I’ve decided to add In-App-Purchase support for one of my apps. I’ve researched about the subject a few times but it always seemed quite a bit of code for a lazy-driven project until I found a quite nice tutorial that at the bottom included a utility library that packaged everything you need to do […]
Posted in Apple, Cocoa, iPhone, Monologue, Objective C | 2 Comments »
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
I recently started a new project called libanim (home page) which aims at providing support for animated file formats on the iOS and perhaps Android at a later stage. The problem doesn’t seem to be limited to any one platform, support for animated file formats is usually limited to gif files but on some places (e.g. […]
Tags: apng, Cocoa, gif, ios, ipad, iPhone, libanim, libpng, mng, Objective C, png
Posted in Apple, Cocoa, Development, Featured, iPhone, Monologue, Objective C | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
If you’re using the iOS 4 SDK then by default your app will be assumed to support multitasking even though you actually need to add support for it and you might not have done that (e.g. updating an old application). While multitasking seems nice it isn’t always the best scenario for your app, specially when […]
Tags: ios4, iPhone, multitasking
Posted in Apple, Featured, iPhone, Monologue, Objective C | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Apple just approved the Opera Mini iPhone app, which should be available on iTunes during the next 24 hours. This is excellent news specially taking into account the recent events. In you’ve missed the demo go check it now. Edit: Some users pointed it out to me something I couldn’t believe but it’s true. The […]
Posted in Apple, Cocoa, iPhone, Mono, Monologue, Objective C | 4 Comments »
Friday, April 9th, 2010
Up until now a few solutions existed if you wanted to avoid C/Objective C to code for the iPhone and specially to achieve some code portability/compatibility with other platforms. Examples of those solutions are Unity3D, Flash CS5, MonoTouch, HaXe and other static-compiters or trans-compilers like XMLVM. As reported by several sources (e.g. this Engadget article) […]
Tags: Apple, flash, Mono, monotouch, unity3d
Posted in .Net, Apple, Cocoa, Game Development, Games, iPhone, Mono, Monologue, Objective C, Physics | 15 Comments »
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
Due to a particular idea of mine I found myself in need of something I don’t believe possible today – to easily share data between desktop and web applications using the browser alone. This raised several technical, privacy and culture questions on my mind, as well as a couple suggestions of course. Many are already […]
Tags: Google, google gears, html 5, ideas, web storage
Posted in I'm an Idiot, Monologue, Web | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Microsoft has 3 .Net flavors, the complete stack, the .Net Compact Framework and the .Net Micro Framework for extremely resource-constrained devices. The later is being open sourced under the Apache 2.0 license. A copy of the full annoucemente can be read at Port 25. Unlike the other flavors of .Net frameworks the .Net Micro framework […]
Tags: .net micro, announcement, Microsoft
Posted in .Net, Mono, Monologue | 3 Comments »
Friday, November 13th, 2009
I was reading my fair share of feeds for the day and I found some links for a nice site that translates C gibberish to English like this: int (*(*foo)(void ))[3] gets translated to “declare foo as pointer to function (void) returning pointer to array 3 of int” – pretty cool on itself but what […]
Tags: blocks, gcc, gnome, llvm, objc
Posted in .Net, Apple, Cocoa, iPhone, Linux, Mono, Monologue, Objective C | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
I got tired of visiting the AdSense page all the time, well from time to time. I already have done an iPhone app so now I created a iGoogle gadget to display the most important stats and also a chart! So, with the help of Mono I was able to have everything setup and tested […]
Tags: AdSense, gadget, Google, Mono
Posted in .Net, ASP.Net, Cocoa, Featured, Mono, Monologue | No Comments »
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Lately I’ve been doing a lot of ASP.Net code developed on VS.Net and IIS and deployed (via a cool subversion hook I might add) to my server running mod_mono on Fedora. Usually there aren’t many issue except for the occasional OS specific thing. But today I’ve hit not 1 but 2 hard to figure problems. […]
Tags: bug, Mono, WebClient
Posted in ASP.Net, Mono, Monologue | 12 Comments »
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
I was looking for a piece of code to get the Page Rank of some urls. There is a lot of code and information on the subject, the hardest part beeing the fact that Google uses the Perfect Hash algorithm in the query. I found a nice solution over here and decided to package it […]
Posted in .Net, Mono, Monologue | 3 Comments »
Monday, August 24th, 2009
I’ve been developing a large application with ASP.Net Ajax and ExtJS. It all works great together and in fact ASP.Net is just a easy way to access my .Net code/web services because the whole UI done with ExtJS constructed/controlled by javascript/Ajax. When it comes to a 100% javascript UI there are some cases where you’ll […]
Tags: ajax, ASP.Net, ExtJs
Posted in .Net, ASP.Net, Featured, Mono, Monologue, Web | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
ASP.Net Ajax features are very good, even great if you consider the useful integration with other ASP.Net constructs. PageMethods are one of the easiest ways to implement an AJAX call without too much trouble or the need to implement a complete web service page if you’re only going to use this particular Ajax call from […]
Tags: ajax, ASP.Net, PageMethods
Posted in .Net, ASP.Net, Featured, Mono, Monologue, Publish, Web | 4 Comments »
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Nowadays there are little news related to new (and really exciting) developments in search engines, natural language parsing and similar stuff. For most people, the only news related to those subjects come from new Google features or one or another project that eventually fails, like that search engine by the Wikipedia founder that was so […]
Tags: Google, News, Search Engines, Wikipedia, WolframAlpha
Posted in .Net, iPhone, Monologue, Objective C, Personal | No Comments »
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
During the past week I’ve been writing a tutorial about Chipmunk, a physics engine very popular among 2D games. The article’s focus is mainly for the iPhone but the Chipmunk code itself is portable to any platform because it’s pure C. I’m thinking about giving the new preview of Monodevelop for OS X release a […]
Tags: Article, Chipmunk, Game Development, iPhone, Mono, Monodelop, Tutorial
Posted in Apple, Cocoa, Featured, Game Development, Games, I'm an Idiot, iPhone, Monologue, Objective C, Physics | 7 Comments »
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
I’ve been working at a new project that requires me to save a whole lot of data into a database. Without giving too much details right now (I’m not quite ready for that yet :)) I would say a good replacement would be to think I’ve developing something like Google Analytics. So, there are a […]
Posted in .Net, Development, Featured, Linux, Mono, Monologue, Web | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Updated on 23/10/2009: I’ve updated the code to fix the bogus regex expressions (wordpress editor striped some bits from them) and also to fix the code since Google changed the signin process slightly. For the more interrested, Google now has 2 cookies/hidden vars instead of 1, the code is almost the same though. A simple […]
Tags: AdSense, C#, Cookies, HttpFox, Login, Objective C, Sign in, WebClient
Posted in .Net, Featured, Linux, Mono, Monologue, Security, Web | 9 Comments »
Monday, November 17th, 2008
ASP.Net provides out-the-box several nice (although not new) features to manage your application’s state, the Session and Application objects. The Session and Application objects are also among the first things learned by students of almost any web programming framework but while they are true in their usefulness it doesn’t mean you should use them directly, […]
Tags: application, ASP.Net, session, state management
Posted in .Net, ASP.Net, Featured, Mono, Monologue, Security, Web | 5 Comments »
Monday, November 10th, 2008
How does diff/patch work? When I first started to do research on this problem I had no idea about the complexity of the math involved and the lack of C# examples around. It turns out that finding the right resources can make life easier, and in the end the Wikipedia entry and this screencast did […]
Tags: .Net, C#, Diff, LCS, Longest Common Subsequence, Mono, Sample Code
Posted in .Net, Featured, Mono, Monologue | 10 Comments »
Monday, September 29th, 2008
Looks like jQuery in .Net isn’t the only news today. Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2010 and the .Net Framework 4.0. Looks like the focus of those releases will be: With Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0, we are focused on the core pillars of developer experience, support for the latest platforms spanning client, […]
Tags: .Net, Microsoft, visual studio
Posted in .Net, Monologue | 1 Comment »
Monday, September 29th, 2008
A few days ago if you asked me if Microsoft would ever include an open source piece of code in one of their products, I would say you were insane just for asking! There’s no way! Well, Microsoft is planning to amaze me along with everyone else. ASP.Net and Visual Studio will start shipping with […]
Tags: .Net, ASP.Net, jQuery, Microsoft, open source, release
Posted in .Net, ASP.Net, Design, Mono, Monologue, Web | 1 Comment »
Saturday, September 20th, 2008
For some strange reason my box’s Xorg stopped working after a clean install and installation of the handy NVidia packages from Livna. The box would boot but when it was time to enable X it just flickered 10-20 times and a console login appeared. With some luck the problem was easy to fix, I just […]
Tags: fedora, nvidia, sli
Posted in Linux, Monologue | No Comments »
Monday, August 25th, 2008
I wanted to hash a lot of files and soon I found how painful it was not knowing how much time it would take because some of the files were huge. I also soon found out there is no support for this on Mono but luck smiled upon me when I found HashAlgorithm.TransformBlock and HashAlgorithm.TransformFinalBlock. […]
Tags: .Net, async, C#, hash, md5, Mono, sha1, tool
Posted in .Net, Linux, Mono, Monologue | 9 Comments »
Monday, August 18th, 2008
One of the problems with ASP.Net when trying to keep a degree of separation between project components is that you can’t easily implement a page or a user control inside a library project and simply reference it from the main ASP.Net project. This, I think, its not entirely by lack of vision or interest from […]
Tags: ajax, ASP.Net, Embed, User Control
Posted in .Net, ASP.Net, Development, Monologue, Publish, Web | 1 Comment »