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Developer's Corner / Re: Your First Programming Language vs Now
« on: September 28, 2017, 07:23 AM »
  • What was your first programming language?
BASIC running off the ROM of an IBM PC
  • Can you remember a snippet from that language?

10 PRINT "Hello World"
20 GOTO 10
  • What's your current language of choice?
Whatever gets the job done the quickest.

  • How would you rewrite that snippet in your current language?

while(1) printf("Hello World\n");


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Developer's Corner / Re: Anyone here do any mobile development?
« on: February 03, 2013, 06:53 AM »
I don't know about you, but what I recall was that iOS / Mac Apps requires a little "paradigm" shift on the developer's part at the beginning.

Objective C and the iOS framework hides the routing of messages and the loading of objects which I noticed confuses developers whom has a strong background in engineering (e.g. if you are used to knowing how control pass over from the event queue / message loop to your code, etc.).

The tool itself was fine for me, especially with the introduction of Xcode 4.


Haven't done much Mobile Apps beside iOS recently, but IIRC, it was less a pain to debugging with XCode than with Eclipse for Android / BlackBerry.
-hwtan (February 03, 2013, 06:27 AM)

Interesting. Last I used Xcode was a while ago, and it really left a foul taste in my mouth. But they have updated some -- could be worth a look at again. (I was really excited when I got my Mac and pumped up to get busy in Xcode, so I might have had some unrealistic expectations. Probably near about time to give it a shot again.)
-Renegade (February 03, 2013, 06:39 AM)

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Developer's Corner / Re: Anyone here do any mobile development?
« on: February 03, 2013, 06:27 AM »
Yes, I have done iOS 5, Android 3.0, BlackBerry 5.0 native apps,  WM5 (.NET Framework) apps, Symbian apps (way back when it runs on Psion 5MX and not Nokia) and PalmOS 5 (if anyone still remembers them).

Haven't done much Mobile Apps beside iOS recently, but IIRC, it was less a pain to debugging with XCode than with Eclipse for Android / BlackBerry.
Less "effortless" was WM5. Most fun was PalmOS (remind me of DOS where you get to hook pretty much anything) and major PIA was Symbian.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Must-have Windows Programs
« on: December 29, 2009, 11:14 AM »
Glad you like the program, Curt.

Just tested that it works on Windows 2008 Server 64 bit edition, so there's a good chance it might work on Win7 and Vista 64 bit.


As for my must-have Windows Programs :

- Total Commander
- FirstDefence ISR
- ESET Smart Security
- Sandboxie
- Editpad Pro
- SecureCRT
- Visual Studio 2005

(edit 1: add must-have programs, edit 2: added Sandboxie to list of must-have programs)

Yesterday I updated Desktop Icon Toy to version 4, and when I tested it, I saw all the icons on my desktop and was reminded of a small but necessary, well, a must-have program for Windows: deskicons. On 2000 and on XP it was fairly easy to hide the desktop icons, but on Vista it isn't. Except if you have this program. One Run, and they are hidden, one more Run and they will show. The program closes when the job is done.

I don't know if hwtan wrote this program himself, but I have not been able to find deskicons.exe anywhere else, so maybe he did.

:up: _ (see attachment in previous post)

Edited:
I am using it on Vista 32-bits.
[hint] It would be nice to know if it also works on Win 7, and on 64-bits. [/hint]
-Curt (December 28, 2009, 03:38 AM)

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Living Room / Re: Android phone - anyone using it?
« on: March 29, 2009, 10:24 AM »
I'm using the Android Developer Phone (ADP), which replaces my Sony Ericsson M600i. Never use the iPhone, so unable to do a comparision. However, compared to the M600i and WM5 device before that, it has a very nice Webkit-based browser with Javascript support. The Half-VGA screen provides more real estate for display and combined with the trackball which allows you to scroll from part of a page to another both vertically and horizontally, provides a pretty good browsing experience.

The keyboard is pretty good as well once you get used to it. I have my email hosted with google, so the synchronization provided by Android was a plus, though somewhat disappointing because the native gmail apps was kind of restrictive compared to accessing gmail mobile using the webkit browser.

As mentioned by david, there are other bits and pieces that could be improved for a better user experience, but overall, I did rate it pretty awesome as it is.

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