Video Tutorial: Android Application Development - StatusData

Class 4, Part 1. This video comes from Marakana's 5-Day Android Bootcamp Training Course which Marko Gargenta taught in San Jose, CA earlier this yearIn the previous tutorial, Class 3, Part 3, you learned how to create a local database for your Android app. Now, Marko will show you how to create the service (UpdaterService) that pulls data from the cloud and then inserts it into your local

Danger, Will Robinson!

As long-time readers of this blog know, I am often asked why a particular hunk of bad-smelling code does not produce a compiler warning."Why not?" questions are inherently hard to answer because they turn causation on its head; normally we ask what caused a particular thing to happen, not what caused a particular thing to not happen. Therefore, rather than attack that question directly I like to

Microsoft Press free ebook roundup, eight ebooks, one post, zero cost

We haven’t posted this in a while and I thought that it might be time for a refresh. This is a list of all of our free ebooks. We’ll have more coming up in 2011, so stay tuned. Read more: Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day Posted via email from Jasper-net

WCF Credentials Manager in WPF (MVVM)

Project DescriptionThis is a WPF (MVVM) version of the IDesign WCF credentials manager. It provides a more responsive user interface for managing users and roles in applications that use the ASP.NET membership and role providers. The project Overview contains details on setup and use, as well as acknowledgements.Read more: Codeplex Posted via email from Jasper-net

What size icon am I supposed to use my for app/toolbar/menu/dialog/etc? The "Icon Reference Chart" might be just the icon cheatsheet you've been looking for..

Looks like a handy chart... (I always forget what size Icon I can/should use where...) Read more: Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the DayRead more: Icon Reference Chart Posted via email from Jasper-net

Android Developers Union makes Google demands

AN ANDROID Developers Union has been set up to fight Google over allegations of poor Android Market conditions.Apparently a disgruntled Android developer has compiled a list of demands that he believes will improve the Android Market. The demands include renegotiation of the 32 per cent Google tax on apps sales, public bug tracking, increased payment options, and a removal appeals process. He

Understanding and Using Parallelism in SQL Server

Many experienced database professionals have acquired a somewhat jaded view of parallel query execution. Sometimes, this is a consequence of bad experiences with older versions of SQL Server. Just as frequently, however, this view is the result of misconceptions, or an otherwise incomplete mastery of the techniques required to effectively design and tune queries for parallel execution. This is

Improve Website Speed With mod_pagespeed

Few months earlier, Google announced about their new developed Apache module, mod_pagespeed on their googlewebmaster's blog post. This is a apache module, which can be installed just like other apache modules and its command directives can be used on .htaccess file(If you don't know anything about using htaccess command directives, you are gladly invited to my another tutorial about apche

Creating a Silverlight Out-of-Browser Splash Screen

Implementing the Splash ScreenThe implementation is really very simple. At its heart, you’re simply loading in a very lean user control. After this lean view is loaded you then inject your first view, only setting it up so it’s not seen, but the views/controls/subviews/viewmodels all living in XAML get constructed. Once you’re ready, ripping out the splash screen and replacing it with the full

Getting Started with Shader Effects in WPF

IntroductionHardware accelerated effects for WPF were first introduced in .NET 3.5 SP1. Very complex effects and graphically rich applications can be created with little impact on performance, thanks to the huge computing power of modern graphic cards. However, if you want to take advantage of this feature, you first need to learn a thing or two. The purpose of this article is to provide all the