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Solution: Visually Inspect Backbone.js View/Templates + Application Logging...
A look at an open source tool that help to manage a plethora of View.js and Template.js files by mouse over identification & inspection, as well as logging support.
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Android, iOS and Windows Mobile…Oh My: An Introduction to PhoneGap
An introduction on how to get started with PhoneGap, an open source framework that allows you to develop for multiple mobile platforms using languages you're already familiar with, like HTML5,...
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Tutorial: RabbitMQ With Spring
A quick tutorial on how to create a RabbitMQ Template to send messages to an exchange with a routing key. Post also covers creating AMQP listeners to listen for messages in the same exchange using the...
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What They Didn’t Teach Me In College
"Looking back more than a decade later (having gained a not insignificant amount of real-world experience), there are certain bits of information that, since they were lacking in the classroom, left my...
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Introduction to MonoTouch Library sqlite-net
Introduction to third party library sqlite-net that can aid in mobile application development. The sqlite-net library provides simple, easy-to-use object relation mapping for the SQLite database.
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Writing Games With Unity 3D in JavaScript and C# – Part 1
An introduction and tutorial for getting started with Unity 3D for Game Development, with particular time spent on JavaScript and C# implementations and using multiple cameras to implement a visual...
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Writing Games With Unity 3D in JavaScript and C# – Part 2
An tutorial for getting started with Unity 3D for Game Development, focusing on implementing high score table using PlayerPrefs, a dialog with text fields to collect user data & cheat codes.
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Messaging with RabbitMQ
An introduction into RabbitMQ, a messaging software built on the AMQP protocol. Learn its relevant concepts, how you might use it, and how to avoid some of the more common "gotchas" in Mark...
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Gamification Overview
Todd Horn on how and why gamification works, the areas it is most effective, tools available, and what the limits are to help you determine the best approach.
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A Little HTML5: Using JSON and File API to View Starred Google Reader Posts
I typically used my Google Reader starred items as an 'I’ll read this later' group. But with Google Reader's cancellation, I have a huge file of saved items and no easy way to read them. So I created a...
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Building Young People’s Soft Skills Through Robotics
Good read for developers who are parents - also hypothesizes agile's effectivity for this high school domain.
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Trailing Commas in JavaScript
A quick tutorial solution for detecting trailing commas in JavaScript.
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Introducing Marionette-Require-Boilerplate for Your Single Page Application
Interested in Backbone & Marionette but not sure where to start? Check out this Marionette-Require-Boilerplate to build your single page application with solid foundation. The best tools + best...
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Writing Games With Unity 3D – Mobile!
Blog tutorial on mobile game development with C# & Unity 3D. How-to on supporting accelerometers, touch screens, and keyboards, using dynamic fonts to make resolution-independent UIs, gathering...
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Friends Don’t Let Friends Use String States
A suggestion for best practice. Sure, string representations of states are important. But don’t let the string be the entire implementation of your state.
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MongoDB Geo-Spatial Mobile Demo
MongoDB is a scalable NoSQL document-oriented data store that has built-in geo-spatial indexing. Let’s look at its characteristics and then check out a mobile geo-spatial demo application.
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Intro to MongoDB + Geo-Spatial Mobile Demo
MongoDB is a scalable NoSQL document-oriented data store that has built-in geo-spatial indexing. Let’s look at its characteristics and then check out a mobile geo-spatial demo application.
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What’s up with WITH?
The basic uses of the WITH statement. There are many ways it can be used as building blocks for simplifying potentially complex SQL statements, all while keeping code as efficient as possible.
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An argument against defaulting to auto-increment primary keys
The “easy” primary key for ages has been the auto-incrementing integer. In my Android App, I immediately, without even thinking about it, constructed all of my Entities using auto-generated Long IDs....
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