There are a lot of cases where you will want to notify your user of some event of reminder without actually setting a formal alarm in their Alarm app. The standard solution most developers seem to take in these situations is to setup something like Urban Airship and...
At the time of this draft I am lying in bed watching The Avengers and I've just gotten through the scene where Loki makes the German civilians kneel and one elderly man stands up and refuses – he states that there are "always men like you" to Loki. What's my point...
Recently, there has been some debate regarding what sort of responsibility we have as developers when we open-source our software. There has been some suggestion that when you open-source something you are obligated to maintain and care for it, as a parent would a...
I am pretty religious about keeping sharp with my coding skills and keeping up to date with the software industry as a whole. I spend a lot of time keeping up to date with the latest tech and programming techniques in an effort to become a more productive developer....
I’ve been doing a good deal of C# WinRT development recently and for the most part it hasn’t been bad. This week, however, I found a pitfall that is not only so simple it’s silly but also managed to waste an hour or so of my time. WinRT has a class called MediaElement...
Android developers will know that there are some serious issues of fragmentation on the platform. These issue have been well recorded and, at times, greatly exaggerated. The truth is that in the last year Google has taken great steps toward making the Android...
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