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  • Les grandes nouveautés de l'iPhone OS 4.0

    Comme on vous l'avait annoncé précédemment, Apple avait invité certains journalistes pour leur présenter certaines nouveautés de l'iPhone OS 4.0. Voici un tout petit résumé des nouveautés introduites dans iPhone OS 4.0 : 1500 nouvelles API à disposition des développeurs 100 nouvelles fonctionnalités proposées aux utilisateurs Parmi les nouvelles fonctionnalités proposées aux utilisateurs, Apple a mis l'accent sur 7 nouvelles fonctionnalités : Le multi-tache, mais de façon limitée (on reviendra là dessus plus tard) Les dossiers : vous pouvez maintenant avoir plus de 2000 applications réparties dans les dossiers. Au lieu de 180 auparavant. iBooks disponible également sur l'iPhone. Messagerie un...

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  • My Feelings About Microsoft Surface

    - by Valter Minute
    Advice: read the title carefully, I’m talking about “feelings” and not about advanced technical points proved in a scientific and objective way I still haven’t had a chance to play with a MS Surface tablet (I would love to, of course) and so my ideas just came from reading different articles on the net and MS official statements. Remember also that the MVP motto begins with “Independent” (“Independent Experts. Real World Answers.”) and this is just my humble opinion about a product and a technology. I know that, being an MS MVP you can be called an “MS-fanboy”, I don’t care, I hope that people can appreciate my opinion, even if it doesn’t match theirs. The “Surface” brand can be confusing for techies that knew the “original” surface concept but I think that will be a fresh new brand name for most of the people out there. But marketing department are here to confuse people… so I can understand this “recycle” of an existing name. So Microsoft is entering the hardware arena… for me this is good news. Microsoft developed some nice hardware in the past: the xbox, zune (even if the commercial success was quite limited) and, last but not least, the two arc mices (old and new model) that I use and appreciate. In the past Microsoft worked with OEMs and that model lead to good and bad things. Good thing (for microsoft, at least) is market domination by windows-based PCs that only in the last years has been reduced by the return of the Mac and tablets. Google is also moving in the hardware business with its acquisition of Motorola, and Apple leveraged his control of both the hardware and software sides to develop innovative products. Microsoft can scare OEMs and make them fly away from windows (but where?) or just lead the pack, showing how devices should be designed to compete in the market and bring back some of the innovation that disappeared from recent PC products (look at the shelves of your favorite electronics store and try to distinguish a laptop between the huge mass of anonymous PCs on displays… only Macs shine out there…). Having to compete with MS “official” hardware will force OEMs to develop better product and bring back some real competition in a market that was ruled only by prices (the lower the better even when that means low quality) and no innovative features at all (when it was the last time that a new PC surprised you?). Moving into a new market is a big and risky move, but with Windows 8 Microsoft is playing a crucial move for its future, trying to be back in the innovation run against apple and google. MS can’t afford to fail this time. I saw the new devices (the WinRT and Pro) and the specifications are scarce, misleading and confusing. The first impression is that the device looks like an iPad with a nice keyboard cover… Using “HD” and “full HD” to define display resolution instead of using the real figures and reviving the “ClearType” brand (now dead on Win8 as reported here and missed by people who hate to read text on displays, like myself) without providing clear figures (couldn’t you count those damned pixels?) seems to imply that MS was caught by surprise by apple recent “retina” displays that brought very high definition screens on tablets.Also there are no specifications about the processors used (even if some sources report NVidia Tegra for the ARM tablet and i5 for the x86 one) and expected battery life (a critical point for tablets and the point that killed Windows7 x86 based tablets). Also nothing about the price, and this will be another critical point because other platform out there already provide lots of applications and have a good user base, if MS want to enter this market tablets pricing must be competitive. There are some expansion ports (SD and USB), so no fixed storage model (even if the specs talks about 32-64GB for RT and 128-256GB for pro). I like this and don’t like the apple model where flash memory (that it’s dirt cheap used in thumdrives or SD cards) is as expensive as gold (or cocaine to have a more accurate per gram measurement) when mounted inside a tablet/phone. For big files you’ll be able to use external media and an SD card could be used to store files that don’t require super-fast SSD-like access times, I hope. To be honest I really don’t like the marketplace model and the limitation of Windows RT APIs (no local database? from a company that based a good share of its success on VB6+Access!) and lack of desktop support on the ARM (even if the support is here and has been used to port office). It’s a step toward the consumer market (where competitors are making big money), but may impact enterprise (and embedded) users that may not appreciate Windows 8 new UI or the limitations of the new app model (if you aren’t connected you are dead ). Not having compatibility with the desktop will require brand new applications and honestly made all the CPU cycles spent to convert .NET IL into real machine code in the past like a huge waste of time… as soon as a new processor architecture is supported by Windows you still have to rewrite part of your application (and MS is pushing HTML5+JS and native code more than .NET in my perception). On the other side I believe that the development experience provided by Visual Studio is still miles (or kilometres) ahead of the competition and even the all-uppercase menu of VS2012 hasn’t changed this situation. The new metro UI got mixed reviews. On my side I should say that is very pleasant to use on a touch screen, I like the minimalist design (even if sometimes is too minimal and hides stuff that, in my opinion, should be visible) but I should also say that using it with mouse and keyboard is like trying to pick your nose with boxing gloves… Metro is also very interesting for embedded devices where touch screen usage is quite common and where having an application taking all the screen is the norm. For devices like kiosks, vending machines etc. this kind of UI can be a great selling point. I don’t need a new tablet (to be honest I’m pretty happy with my wife’s iPad and with my PC), but I may change my opinion after having a chance to play a little bit with those new devices and understand what’s hidden under all this mysterious and generic announcements and specifications!

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  • Why is Cocoa using an old version of Unicode? [closed]

    - by Randy Marsh
    While I was searching for something in the Apple docs, I stumble on this: illegalCharacterSet Returns a character set containing values in the category of Non-Characters or that have not yet been defined in version 3.2 of the Unicode standard. On the Unicode website, I find that the latest version is 6.1.0. That's a lot of major versions higher than what Cocoa supports. Does somebody know why Apple doesn't upgrade their framework? My more important question is: Are there problems for not doing having support for Unicode 3.2+? Will I have problems reading Unicode files created on other systems with a more recent version of Unicode?

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  • PASS: SQLRally Thoughts

    - by Bill Graziano
    The PASS Board recently decided that we wouldn’t put another US-based SQLRally on the calendar until we had a chance to review the program. I wanted to provide some of my thinking around this. Keep in mind that this is the opinion of one Board member. The Board committed to complete two SQLRally events to determine if an event modeled between SQL Saturday and the Summit was viable. We’ve completed the two events and now it’s time to step back and review the program. This is my seventh year on the PASS Board. Over that time people have asked me why PASS does certain things. Many, many times my answer has been “Because that’s the way we did it last year”. And I am tired of giving that answer. We need to take a step back and review the US-based SQLRally before we schedule another one. It would be irresponsible for me as a Board member to commit resources to this without validating that what we’re doing makes sense for the organization and our members. I have no doubt that this was a great event for the attendees. We just need to validate it’s the best use of our resources. Please keep in mind that we haven’t cancelled the event. We’ve just said we need to review it before scheduling another one. My opinion is that some fairly serious changes are needed to the model before we consider it again – IF we do it again. I’ve come to that conclusion after speaking with the Dallas organizers, our HQ team, our Marketing team, other Board members (including one of the Orlando organizers), attendees in Orlando and Dallas and visiting other similar events. I should point out that their views aren’t unanimous on nearly any part of this event -- which is one of the reasons I want to take some time and think about this before continuing. I think it’s helpful to look at the original goals of what we were trying to accomplish. Andy Warren wrote these up in August of 2010. My summary of these goals and some thoughts on each one is below. Many of these thoughts revolve around the growth of SQL Saturdays. In the two years since that document was written these events have grown significantly. The largest SQL Saturdays are now over 500 people which mean they are nearly the same size as our recent SQLRally. Our goals included: Geographic diversity. We wanted an event in an area of the country that was away from any given Summit location. I think that’s still a valid goal. But we also have SQL Saturdays all over the country. What does SQLRally bring to this that SQLSaturday doesn’t? Speaker growth. One of the stated goals was to build a “farm club” for speakers. This gives us a way for speakers to work up to speaking at Summit by speaking in front of larger crowds. What does SQLRally bring to this that the larger SQL Saturdays aren’t providing? Pre-Conference speakers is one obvious answer here. Lower price. On a per-day basis, SQLRally is roughly 1/4th the price of the Summit. We wanted a way for people to experience something Summit-like at a lower price point. The challenge is that we are very budget constrained at that lower price point. International Event Model.  (I need to write more about this but I’m out of time.  I’ll cover it in the next installment.) There are a number of things I really like about SQLRally. I love the smaller conferences. They give me a chance to meet more people than at something the size of Summit. I like the two day format. That gives you two evenings to be at social events with people. Seeing someone a second day is a great way to build a bond with that person. That’s more difficult to do at a SQL Saturday. We also need to talk about the financial aspects of the event. Last year generated a small $17,000 profit on revenues of $200,000. Percentage-wise that’s reasonable but on an absolute basis it’s not a huge amount in our budget. We think this year will lose between $30,000 and $50,000 and take roughly 1,000 hours of HQ time. We don’t have detailed financials back yet but that’s our best guess at this point. Part of that was driven by using a convention center instead of a hotel. Until we get detailed financials back we won’t have the full picture around the financial impact. This event also takes time and mindshare from our Marketing team. This may sound like a small thing but please don’t underestimate it. Our original vision for this was something that would take very little time from our Marketing team and just a few mentions in the Connector. It turned out to need more than that. And all those mentions and emails take up space we could use to talk about other events and other programs. Last I wanted to talk about some of the things I’m thinking about. I don’t think it’s as simple as saying if we just fix “X” it all gets better. Is this that much better of an event than SQL Saturdays? What if we gave a few SQL Saturdays some extra resources? When SQL Saturdays were around 250 people that wasn’t as viable. With some of those events over 500 we need to reconsider this. We need to get back to a hotel venue. That will help with cost and networking. Is this the best use of the 1,000 HQ hours that we invested in the event? Is our price-point correct? I’m leaning toward raising our price closer to Summit on a per-day basis. I think this will let us put on a higher quality event and alleviate much of the budget pressure. Should growing speakers be a focus? Having top-line pre-conference speakers helps market the event. It will also have an impact on pricing and overall profit. We should also ask if it actually does grow speakers. How many of these people will eventually register for Summit? Attend chapters? Is SQLRally a driver into PASS or is it something that chapters, etc. drive people to? Should we have one paid day and one free instead of two paid days? This is a very interesting model that is used by SQLBits in the UK. This gives you the two day aspect as well as offering options for paid and free attendees. I’m very intrigued by this. Should we focus on a topic? Buried in the minutes is a discussion of whether PASS should have a Business Analytics conference separate from Summit. This is an interesting question to consider. Would making SQLRally be focused on a particular topic make it more attractive? Would that even be a SQLRally? Can PASS effectively manage the two events? (FYI - Probably not.) Would it help differentiate it from Summit and SQL Saturday? These are all questions that I think should be asked and answered before we do this event again. And we can’t do that if we don’t take time to have the discussion. I wanted to get this published before I take off for a few days of vacation. When I get back I’d like to write more about why the international events are different and talk about where we go from here.

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  • iOS build machine setup: problem with certificates

    - by cbrulak
    some background: work with multiple team mates each work on our own MBP I'm setting a build machine that we can git push to in order to generate a build (aim to allow anyone to push to the build machine and then generate an archive, upload to testflight and send on its way) problem: getting my apple developer certificates on the build machine. I installed Lion, XCode, etc and I signed into my developer account through Xcode organizer, provisioning profiles download,etc. but beside each one it says: valid signing identity not found I also download my certificate from the developer.apple.com page, imported it into keychain, etc but no luck. Anyone else have a similar issue? Or maybe hints to fix? Thanks

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  • Google Play détrône l'App Store en nombre de téléchargements, mais pas encore en termes de revenus

    Google Play détrône enfin App Store en nombre de téléchargements, mais pas encore en termes de revenusLa start-up App Annie, qui analyse de façon quotidienne les chiffres de nombreux magasins d'applications, a publié un rapport sur les activités de Google et Apple. Google Play aurait dépassé l'App Store d'Apple en nombre de téléchargements d'environ 10 % durant le second trimestre de l'année en cours. Un juste retour de situation pour ceux qui n'ont pas manqué de signaler que le marché des consommateurs est constitué majoritairement d'Android. Toutefois, App Store demeure plus rentable que son homologue chez Google puisque la boutique affiche des revenus 2,3 fois supérieurs. « Bien que Google Play soit ...

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  • Do you think Windows 8 will be a success? [closed]

    - by Sean Dexter
    I'm a c# developer so far and just about to head into getting my skills up to date in WinRT. However, I'm having a crisis of faith and wondering if it might be a better career move to jump on the Objective-C bandwagon. The way I see it, Windows 8 might be a success or it might not. Apple technologies are a sure bet. Honestly, I don't want to get into Apple development. I'd prefer to pretend AAPL doesn't exist, but, unfortunately, that's not possible.

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  • Success function not being called when form is submitted

    - by Tom Hartman
    Hi, I've been trying to figure out why the following script's success function isn't running. Everything in my form works perfectly, and the form contents are being emailed correctly, but the success function isn't being called. If anyone could review my code and let me know why my success function isn't being called I would very much appreciate it! Here is the HTML form with notification divs, which are hidden via css: <div id="success" class="notification"> <p>Thank you! Your message has been sent.</p> </div> <div id="failure" class="notification"> <p>Sorry, your message could not be sent.</p> </div> <form id="contact-form" method="post" action="" class="jqtransform"> <label for="name">Name:</label> <input name="name" id="name" type="text" class="validate[required] input" /> <label for="company">Company:</label> <input name="company" id="company" type="text" class="input" /> <label for="phone">Phone:</label> <input name="phone" id="phone" type="text" class="input" /> <label for="email">Email:</label> <input name="email" id="email" type="text" class="validate[required,email] input" /> <div class="sep"></div> <label for="subject">Subject:</label> <input name="subject" id="subject" type="text" class="validate[required] input" /> <div class="clear"></div> <label for="message">Message:</label> <textarea name="message" id="message" class="validate[required]"></textarea> <div id="check-services"> <input type="checkbox" name="services[]" value="Contractor Recommendation" /> <div>Contractor Recommendation</div> <input type="checkbox" name="services[]" value="Proposal Review" /> <div>Proposal Review</div> <input type="checkbox" name="services[]" value="Existing Website Review" /> <div>Existing Website Review</div> <input type="checkbox" name="services[]" value="Work Evaluation" /> <div>Work Evaluation</div> <input type="checkbox" name="services[]" value="Layman Translation" /> <div>Layman Translation</div> <input type="checkbox" name="services[]" value="Project Management" /> <div>Project Management</div> </div> <div class="sep"></div> <input name="submit" id="submit" type="submit" class="button" value="Send" /> <input name="reset" id="reset" type="reset" class="button" value="Clear" onclick="$.validationEngine.closePrompt('.formError',true)" /> </form> Here is the javascript: // CONTACT FORM VALIDATION AND SUBMISSION $(document).ready(function(){ $('#contact-form').validationEngine({ ajaxSubmit: true, ajaxSubmitFile: 'lib/mail.php', scroll: false, success: function(){ $('#success').slideDown(); }, failure: function(){ $('#failure').slideDown(); $('.formError').animate({ marginTop: '+30px' }); } }); }); And here is my PHP mailer script: <?php $name = $_POST['name']; $company = $_POST['company']; $phone = $_POST['phone']; $email = $_POST['email']; $subject = $_POST['subject']; $message = $_POST['message']; $services = $_POST['services']; $to = '[email protected]'; $subject = 'THC - Contact'; $content .= "You received a message from ".$name.".\r\n\n"; if ($company): $content .= "They work for ".$company.".\r\n\n"; endif; $content .= "Here's the message:\r\n\n".$message."\r\n\n"; $content .= "And they are interested in the services below:\r\n\n"; $content .= implode("\r\n",$services); if ($phone): $content .= "\r\n\nYou can reach them at ".$phone."."; else: $content .= "\r\n\nNo phone number was provided."; endif; $headers = "From: ".$name."\r\n"; $headers .= "Reply-To: ".$email."\r\n"; if (mail($to,$subject,$content,$headers)): return true; else: return false; endif; ?>

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  • Mac OS dépasse Linux chez les développeurs d'après un cabinet américain qui souligne la progression du développement mobile

    Mac OS aurait dépassé Linux chez les développeurs D'après une étude américaine qui pointe le rôle de la progression du développement mobile Mac OS et Apple auraient dépassé Linux dans la communauté des développeurs américains. C'est en tout cas ce que croit savoir Evans Data, un cabinet d'analyse spécialisée californien. D'après ce rapport, les développeurs Nord-Américains seraient aujourd'hui 7,9 % à travailler sur la plate-forme d'Apple contre seulement 5,6 % pour Linux. Il s'agirait d'une première. L'importance grandissante du développement mobile et le succès de l'iPhone ne sont certainement pas étrangers à ce résultat plutôt polémique. L'étude note d'ail...

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  • Install Ubuntu on iMac 21.5" (mid 2011)

    - by Mystic Mark le Maverick
    I has a dual boot system with MacOSX 10.8.2 and Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium x64. I would like to install Ubuntu alongside the two existing operating systems for cross platform development purposes. My System specs are listed below. iMac 21.5-inch (mid 2011) Intel Core i7 @2.80GHz AMD Radeon HD 6770M Facetime HD Internet Camera Thunderbolt port Wireless Airport adapter card Apple 8x Superdrive Apple Magic Mouse and wired keyboard with numeric keypad Will rEFIt install properly on my machine too? Thanks you very much for the help.

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  • Smartphones : la guerre des brevets est lancée, Google protège-t-il assez HTC et ses partenaires And

    Mise à jour du 30.04.2010 par Katleen Smartphones : la guerre des brevets est lancée, Google protège-t-il assez HTC et ses partenaires Android ? Alors qu'Apple s'emploie déjà depuis plusieurs mois à mettre des bâtons dans les roues d'Android, Microsoft se joint à la danse. Le marché des smartphones est en plein essor et attire de plus en plus les groupes informatiques qui voient en lui un atout stratégique très important. La compétition fait rage et les grands groupes commencent a faire feu de leurs brevets dans cette bataille. Les avocats d'HTC ont été asticotés de toute part, d'abord par Apple puis par Microsoft, à propos de ses téléphones Android. La quatrième ...

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  • L'App Store génère toujours quatre fois plus de revenus que Google Play, mais la galerie d'Android augmente rapidement son CA

    L'App Store génère toujours quatre fois plus de revenus que Google Play Mais la galerie de Google augmente rapidement son chiffre d'affaires d'après App Annie Les études sur les galeries applicatives se suivent et se ressemblent toutes un peu. L'Index de App Annie ne fait pas exception. En résumé, d'après cette analyse, Google Play est en très forte croissance? mais reste beaucoup moins rentable que l'App Store d'Apple. En octobre, le chiffre d'affaires (CA) de la galerie de Google a certes triplé (+ 313 %) par rapport à janvier quand celle des iDevices ne progressait « que » de 12.9 %. Mais au final c'est bien un Apple qui qui génèrerait le plus de revenus a...

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  • Adobe jette l'éponge sur l'iPhone, «Puisqu'on ne veut pas de nous, on va voir ailleurs» déclare le r

    Mise à jour du 21.04.2009 par Katleen Adobe jette l'éponge sur l'iPhone, «Puisqu'on ne veut pas de nous, on va voir ailleurs» déclare le responsable de Flash Suite à la situation qui s'envenime entre Adobe et Apple, Mike Chambers, le responsable du produit Flash pour la firme a décidé de s'exprimre publiquement dans un long billet, publié sur son blog. Pour contrer la compagnie de Jobs, il expose ses projets avec sa rivale de Mountain View. «Heureusement, Apple n'est pas le seul acteur. Les téléphones sous Android connaissent un succès croissant et de nombreuses tablettes Android doivent sortir cette année. Nous travaillons main dans la main avec Google pour amener Flash Player et Adobe Air s...

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  • Croissance de 544 % pour l'Android Market et percée de l'iPhone en entreprise confirmée sur 2010, d'après Distimo

    Croissance de 544 % pour l'Android Market Et percée de l'iPhone confirmée en entreprise sur 2010, d'après Distimo Distimo, spécialiste hollandais de l'analyse des « AppStore », vient de publier son rapport annuel sur les galeries d'applications des OS mobiles. On y apprend, sans surprise, qu'Apple et l'iPhone domine encore et toujours le marché, du haut de ses 300 000 applications. Mais l'Android Market connait, lui, une croissance nettement supérieure. En 2010 l'Apple App Store a connu une croissance de 111% de son nombre d'application, contre une progression de 544% pour la galerie d'Android (dont le catalogue compterait environ 130.000 applications, chiffre officieux).

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  • Ne dites plus iPhone OS 4, mais iOS 4 : le nouveau système d'exploitation pour terminaux mobiles d'A

    Comme on vous l'avait annoncé précédemment, Apple avait invité certains journalistes pour leur présenter certaines nouveautés de l'iPhone OS 4.0. Voici un tout petit résumé des nouveautés introduites dans iPhone OS 4.0 : 1500 nouvelles API à disposition des développeurs 100 nouvelles fonctionnalités proposées aux utilisateurs Parmi les nouvelles fonctionnalités proposées aux utilisateurs, Apple a mis l'accent sur 7 nouvelles fonctionnalités : Le multi-tache, mais de façon limitée (on reviendra là dessus plus tard) Les dossiers : vous pouvez maintenant avoir plus de 2000 applications réparties dans les dossiers. Au lieu de 180 auparavant. iBooks disponible également sur l'iPhone. Messagerie un...

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  • UIDocumentInteractionController in iOS for Whatsapp Integration

    - by Smitha
    I was looking for a way to share my application created files through Whatsapp. I found we can chat using custom URL scheme provided by whatsapp : https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/iphone/23559013. But, to share files of my app, read that I have to use DicumentIntercationController. So, is there any smaple available? Also, when I read about apple docs, it says, "Create an instance of the UIDocumentInteractionController class for each file you want to interact with" (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/DocumentInteraction_TopicsForIOS/Articles/PreviewingandOpeningItems.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40010410-SW1). So is it necessary to create instance for each file? I just want to share the files as and when i receive it through my service to my app. Thanks for the help in advance.

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