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Qt is a powerful cross-platform framework used for developing applications with intuitive user interfaces. It provides two main approaches for UI development: Q...

Building desktop GUI apps that work consistently across different operating systems presents several technical challenges. Dear ImGui combined with Glium and Wi...

Building desktop GUI apps that work consistently across different operating systems presents several technical challenges. Dear ImGui combined with GLFW provide...

A quick reference for translating common Rust features to JavaScript.

A quick reference for translating common Rust Cargo commands to Node.js NPM.

With the growing demand for more native-like web applications, companies are looking to desktop web container solutions like Electron, Tauri and OpenFin to evol...

I am the author of Desktop MP3 , an offline music player focused on simplicity and ease-of-use. The MacOS version is built using Objective-C with Storyboard, an...

Welcome to "Flutter Dart Cheat Sheet for TypeScript Developers". This article is meant to be a quick reference guide for software developers already familiar wi...

React Native iOS developers running out of space on your MacBook? Here are a few places specific to React Native iOS resources that you can check to free up som...

A comparison of app startup speed using Xamarin Native and Xamarin Forms.

A comparison of Xamarin Forms versus React Native. Topics include hot reload, fonts, code navigation, debugging and more.

I am happy to announce that Flag Capture Extreme is now available for iPhone devices. The iOS version was previously only available for iPad. Gather together wi...

I want to introduce you to my new open-source project called IWASNUTS: It's a Web App Starter for Node Using TypeScript and Sass This project is meant for for g...

I put together this spreadsheet to compare some of the more popular mobile app frameworks.

Today I finished converting ReactNativeJobs.io from using PHP over to NodeJS with EJS templates. The transition went smoother and faster than I had anticipated....

I was trying to launch a sample app on the newly released Ionic 2 Release Canditate . When I ran the command sudo ionic run ios --emulator , I encountered an er...

When choosing a mobile development you first need to decide what your goals are in the long run. There are two ends of the spectrum. The first being 100% cross-...

In Xamarin I created a Single View App targeted for iOS and Android with a Shared Library. I changed the scheme to Release and removed the button click logic fr...

When launching a Xamarin.Forms apps for Android it starts out on a regular Activity while it prepares and launches the Forms activity. This delay is not very pr...

I am pleased to announce the release of my latest app: Sensory Sand. It is a relaxing sensory sand game using gravity and physics. The app has multi-touch suppo...

I am pleased to announce the release of my latest app for iPhone: Cost Per Square Metre Calculator . This app helps real estate agents and home buyers quickly a...

I am excited to announce the release of one of my latest apps: App Vendor . App Vendor is a new platform designed for connecting software developers and investo...

The Ionic team announced the alpha version of Ionic 2 yesterday. According to the article , Ionic 2 has a "new animation system" as well as "dramatically improv...

Ionic CLI has the option of starting your app with live updates as you make changes in your code. Starting your app using live reload on a physical iOS device: ...

I am pleased to announce that Flag Capture Extreme, a multiplayer game for tablets is now available for Android. ( Previously it was only available for iPad.) D...

Hannes Nel with Microsoft New Zealand has written an excellent article on what to consider when choosing between Xamarin and Cordova .

Last year I released Cost Per Square Foot Calculator for iPhone in form of an ad-supported free version as well as a paid version with no ads. Today I am please...

I am pleased to announce that my new game for iPad, Flag Capture Extreme , has been approved for distribution. Gather your friends or family together for this 2...

Check out Wood Block Pinball for iPhone, my latest game made using Unity3d.

I have released a free, ad-supported version of Lightning List for iPhone. It can be downloaded here: Lightning List Lite

I have added checkboxes and updated the user interface on my Lightning List app for iPhone. If you have already purchased Lightning List, you can get the update...

Recently a friend of mine was in need of a solution to rotate banners on his website. He already had the images but needed a way to make them rotate while users...

I am happy to announce Brick Juggle , my recently published game that I built using Unity . The point of the game is to keep all three bricks in the air as long...

Announcing the recent release of one of my latest iOS apps: Cost Per Square Foot Calculator . I developed it using Appcelerator Titanium Studio . Download it fr...

I am making a video game called Planet Jump using Unreal Engine 4 . Unreal is amazing, especially since they provide you with awesome textures and sounds you ca...

I created another app for the iPhone called Lightning List . The app went live on the App Store two days ago. Lightning List allows you to create lists very qui...

I created a blank single-view application in three different IDEs and compared the file size and startup time of the resulting apps once deployed to my iPhone 5...

One of the requirements on a Mac for creating a Native Client plugin for Chrome is to have Make installed. A version of Make comes with Command Line tools for M...

For those who are not ready to take the plunge and buy the paid version, I am pleased to announce the availability of the Lite version for iOS. This version all...

If you are considering developing cross-platform mobile apps, two of the platforms you may encounter are Xamarin and Delphi XE5. I created the starter applicati...

Today I used the demo version of Delphi XE5 to get a cross platform test app working on a Galaxy Note 2, an iPhone 5, and an iPad 4 all using the same source co...

Today I started developing a jQuery plugin which is designed to eliminate the delay that the browser experiences on click events within mobile web apps. I wante...

If you are considering making an app, then there are several options available to you. It basically comes down to how much time and money you want to spend in d...

These aren't perfect statistics, but the basic idea of how my experience went when testing mobile web development on 5 mobile devices went something like this: ...

A while back I did a File Size and Startup Time Comparison of Android Apps using App Inventor versus the Android SDK. Android SDK was the winner. Now I have don...

I have developed and released an iPad game called Moon Tug. It is a two player game where you try to pull the moon to your own planet before the other player do...

A few months ago I built another iPhone app called Carb or Calorie Counter. It gives you a week view of entries where you can track how many carbs (or calories)...

Selenium WebDriver lets you write code to perform automated tests of web pages. Unlike Selenium IDE (which records clicks that you perform in the browser and pl...

Selenium IDE is a plugin for Firefox that allows Quality Assurance representatives to test web based software or websites. It works similar to how macros work. ...

You are all excited because you finished developing your iPhone App and you have performed the necessary steps in the iOS Dev Center and in iTunes Connect. You ...

I made an app for iPhone , iPad and Android that helps you calculate the cost-per-ounce of products when you are grocery shopping. It is great for comparison sh...

Smart Phones Galaxy Note 2 (My second one) (May 29, 2013 to Present) Galaxy Note 2 (My first one) (Oct 26 - 29th) Galaxy S3 (September 2012 to May 29, 2013) iPh...

Are you wondering how to move your WordPress blog to Blogger? Thanks to the help from David Haime' blog post , I have exported my WordPress blog entries and imp...

While Microsoft has not released a native app that allows you to edit Microsoft Office documents on an iPad, there are multiple tools that allow you to use Word...

I am developing a web browser for the iPhone. It will use the UIWebView control for rendering the web pages. I am using Objective-C to dynamically create UIButt...

Here is a list of web-based programming IDEs: ShiftEdit IDE PHPAnywhere Koding OrionHub CodeRun Cloud9 IDE

The Challenge I challenge web developers to come up with a cross-browser solution that uses DIVs to reproduce my layout that uses a Table that uses 100% height ...

You can use an Android phone without having to be on a two-year contract and without having to pay for an expensive data plan. The Benefits Inexpensive monthly ...

Follow these instructions to get free blog hosting: Go to FreeHostia.com and sign up for the free plan. Login to your account. At the top choose: Web Tools Elef...

Yesterday I decided I wanted to get at least something out on the Android Market. So I put together a very very simple app called Shopping Assistant. Currently ...

I listed my Android app "Auto Respond By Text" on GetJar.com and it went active on October 14th. Two days later when I checked at about 5:05 PM it was showing t...

I noticed that the apps I was making using App Inventor for Android were ending up being about 4MB in file size. So I decided to find out what size an app is wh...

TinyWebDB is a component in App Inventor for Android that lets your app communicate with a web page in order to set or retrieve values, rather than storing them...

"Auto Respond By Text" is an Android app I made by using App Inventor for Android . This app is a tool that will send an automatic response to whoever who sends...

"Auto Respond By Text" is another Android app I made by using App Inventor for Android . This app is a tool that will send an automatic response to whoever who ...

I bult a Tic-Tac-Toe game for Android phones tonight using App Inventor . I didn't have to write a single line of code but I was still able to use logic such as...

I bult a Tic-Tac-Toe game for Android phones tonight using App Inventor. I didn't have to write a single line of code but I was still able to use logic such as ...

I went to my wordpress site today using my phone. The site displayed using the mobile theme and I noticed a link at the bottom to "Download WordPress for Androi...

If you have added a ScrollView to your layout in Android, you might get this error showing up in your IDE: error: Error parsing XML: unbound prefix The problem ...

I took these photos of the inside of a laptop. Photo of Inside of a Laptop Photo of Inside of a Laptop

Resource 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/TechOff/165618-Ruby-on-Rails-vs-ASPNET-Deathmatch/ What I Left With: Use the programming platform that is best for yo...

It is great that Google is entering the desktop Linux scene, but check out this comparison to see what is already available today. Google Chrome OS Available: 2...

I found out about Leigeber Web Development Blog tonight. If you are a web developer, you might want to check out some of the goodies that are presented such as:...

Does it take a long time to actually open a tab in Microsoft® Internet Explorer®?

Do you think that Windows® 7 will run faster than Windows Vista® or run on an older laptop from the early 2000's?

Visit the links below to learn how to make your own custom asp.net server control with child elements. StackOverFlow.com ASPCode.net

Free WPF Controls Xceed DataGrid (Express Edition) Not Free WPF Controls Xceed DataGrid (Pro)

Scott Hanselman has posted a good article introducing using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) to write web-based applications that will run on Internet Expl...

This tutorial explains how to get sites like WordPress , PHPBB , and Kayako's eSupport's help desk area to use your website's look-and-feel so that when you cha...

This article provides: A link to MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) where you can see some of the ColdFusion® to .net translations that Microsoft has provided S...

The SyntaxHighlighter Evolved plugin for Wordpress will allow you to show code examples on your WordPress blog. See examples in this post.

If you visit Google.com today with a Windows Mobile browser you might encounter an ad that reads "Dont forget: Brain Search". (I have not tested it with other m...

Head on over to HowToGeek.com to see lots of screenshots of the recently released beta version of Microsoft® Windows® 7 . Copyright Notice: Windows is either re...

If your Eclipse seems to go slow, you might want to read this article on MXUnit.

In Adobe Flex, in order to select an item in a ComboBox, you use the .selectedIndex property. However, there might be times that you want to specify the item to...

The Adobe® AIR™ Software Development Kit comes with a command-line utility that will let you create a free digital certificate. Download and unzip the free Adob...

Here is a list of free photo gallery systems that you can install on your website: Gallery Coppermine Gallery Plogger JetPhoto Studio Flash Gallery If you know ...

Here are some online multiplayer games you might enjoy. TankMania Tribal Wars Globulos TrackMania Nations (Huge download, but worth it.) If you know of any othe...

T-Mobile is set to unveil the phone running the Android platform today. PC World has a couple pictures you can take a look at to get an idea of what the HTC Dre...

Online Tech Tips has an article about how to prevent others from shutting down your computer running Windows® XP .

Here are links to sites devoted to Android.

Follow these links if you are looking for icons to use in your projects. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/06/35-really-incredible-free-icon-sets/ http://...

I just ran across this very comprehensive list of web operating systems at Mashable.com. Go check it out! Also check out these reviews of 10 web operating syste...

I ran across a very interesting program last week. Balsamiq Mockup makes it easy for users to create mockups of web pages or software interfaces.

Adobe® AIR™ is a runtime environment that lets you use your HTML, CSS and JavaScript skills to make desktop applications as well as web applications. You can al...

If you have a website but you don't know how to update it and you don't have anyone else to manage it for you, then you might be interested in this article.

Thanks to BetaNews for reporting on Protocol Buffers. Head over to Google to read about this alternative to XML.

Using Javascript you can show display your email address on your website in a way that humans can read it but web spiders can't. (That is my argument anyway.)

You can remove the space that gets put before and after an HTML form tag by simply adding some CSS like this: form style="margin:0px;" .

Firebug is an addon for the Firefox web browser. It is a useful tool for web-developers. You can use it to debug javascript, CSS issues, observe AJAX requests a...

3D window managers allows for your computer desktop to become 4 (or more) virtual desktops which you can rotate around as a cube. You simply rotate the cube aro...

In this tutorial you will learn how to process a form using ASP.NET. You should have already been through the first tutorial at this point.

Here you will learn what to do to setup your computer to begin developing ASP.NET web pages.

Using shortcuts can save you time and frustration. Use these ones while you work on the computer. Remember to bookmark this page so you can come back to it easi...

In Windows®, every once in a while a program might freeze up on you. There are two ways you can close a program that is not responding. Next time a program free...

I found out about Desktoptwo, an online desktop with a file manager, music player, and more; while checking out the Web 2.0 awards at SEOmoz.org .

Here is a handy tip for when your computer gets too bogged down. You can disable some programs from starting up when your computer starts up.

Here are some handy ways to speed up or make your Internet browsing experience better.

Here is a video of Dan Morrill explaining how to use Eclipse to develop a simple Android application that lists contacts and lets you click one to make a phone ...

Read an article on BetaNews.com .

In this lesson you will learn how to use PHP for processing a form that could be used in real-life scenarios.

This is the first of a series of PHP tutorials. This first lesson explains how to setup your computer to begin programming PHP.

Using shortcuts can save you time and frustration. Use these ones while you work on the computer. Remember to bookmark this page so you can come back to it easi...

Here are some handy ways to speed up or make your Internet browsing experience better. Refresh Quickly with the F5 Key F5 refreshes the page. Don't waste time m...