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So I had some free time over Columbus Day weekend and figured why not spend it on a fun programming project. My politically-incorrectly named GhettoTCX project emerged after some quick fussing around with TCX (XML) file. Ghetto TCX GhettoTCX will parse a TCX file from Garmin, MapMyRide, etc. and generate some basic plots. The most…
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I can’t see this on my own Facebook profile yet, but we’ve gotten a number of tips in our inbox in the past 10 minutes so it’s safe to assume it’s not a hoax or anything: Facebook appears to have started enabling users to generate custom two-dimensional QR codes. From the looks of the screenshot…
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This is insane… wow, very cool. I wonder how long it really takes to generate a game from scratch… What is GameSalad? GameSalad is the world’s most advanced game creation tool for non-programmers. With GameSalad, game makers of all levels can bring their ideas to life without programming a single line of code. Build games…
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This is a great resource: Want to know how to write programs for the iPhone and iPod touch? Beginning this week, a Stanford computer science class on that buzzworthy topic will be available online to the general public for free. The 10-week course, iPhone Application Programming, is a hot ticket. It begins today and videos…
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Video on YouTubeEugene Lin wanted some iPhone App Store money. So he made one iPhone app that was eventually accepted, then another that was rejected and then he found a hit with the racy Peek-a-boo. Along the way he learned the ins and outs of the App Store approva process and made quite a lot…
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On Monday, Glen Murphy, a user interface designer for Google’s Chrome browser and the Chrome operating system based on it, pointed to image and video concepts of a Chrome OS-based tablet that went live two days before the iPad launch. Apparently nobody noticed initially, because only now did Murphy tweet, “Apparently our tablet mocks have…
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Been wanting to develop an iPhone app for a while.. either real app or a web app… Found these links helpful FROM IBM: Developing iPhone applications using Ruby on Rails and Eclipse, Part 1: Serving content for iPhones. IBM: This article shows how to build a Ruby on Rails application that dynamically recognizes iPhone or…
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Many are choosing wordpress as the base platform for their project. In fact, toady you will find many .gov and .org sites are based on wordpress. Here, I have collected Top 10 Government Sites Powered By WordPress. I love wordpress and didn’t realize America.gov and other important government websites were running wordpress too. Top 10…
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Creating a boolean radio button set while trying to build upon the source code samples in Beginning Rails book, but was having trouble with the radio buttons: selecting second one didn’t do anything, the first one would automatically get re-selected. Realized what the problem was: the label tags were messing me up. I needed to…
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Ok, so trying to get back into the (programming) swing of things, been spending my day re-configuring my laptop to become a lean, mean, programming platform. Of course my life would be easier with Mac OSX, but I’m stuck with my ThinkPad X60s laptop for now. (When is Apple going to come out with a…
David Mantilla 