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  • Silverlight Cream for April 01, 2010 -- #827

    - by Dave Campbell
    In this Issue: Max Paulousky, Hassan, Viktor Larsson, Fons Sonnemans, Jim McCurdy, Scott Marlowe, Mike Taulty, Brad Abrams, Jesse Liberty, Scott Barnes, Christopher Bennage, and John Papa and Ward Bell. Shoutouts: Tim Heuer posted a survey: What tools are the minimum to get started in Silverlight?... have you responded yet? Don't want to miss this discussion: Channel 9 Live at MIX10: Bill Buxton & Erik Meijer - Perspectives on Design Bookmark this... Jesse Liberty has moved his site: Silverlight Geek I stand with Tim Heuer on this: Congratulations to latest 2nd quarter Silverlight MVPs From SilverlightCream.com: Wizards. Prototype of sketching Wizard for WPF - 1 Max Paulousky is creating a SketchFlow WPF wizard in Expression Blend... looks like good Expression Blend and SketchFlow no matter what the target is Windows Phone 7 Navigation Hassan has another WP7 Video up, and this one is on Navigation and passing data from page to page. Silverlight 4 PathListBox Viktor Larsson is blogging about the PathListBox, and definitely had a good time doing so.. lots of fun examples. CountDown Clock in Silverlight 4 Fons Sonnemans has reworked his Sivlerlight 3 FlipClock to be this Silverlight 4 CountDown Clock utilizing the Viewbox control to make it scalable. Generic class for deep clone of Silverlight and CLR objects Jim McCurdy has a Silverlight 3 and 4-tested CloneObject class that he's using for creating a deep copy of an object and all it's properties... think drag/drop or undo/redo. Animating the Fill Color of a Silverlight Ellipse Scott Marlowe has a tutorial up that animates a pass/fail indicator with a smooth transition from a red to a green state... all with code. Silverlight 4, Blend 4, MVVM, Binding, DependencyObject Mike Taulty has a great tutorial up on Blend4 and binding... he's got a somewhat contrived example going, but it certainly looks good to me :) Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Authentication and Personalization Next up in Brad Abrams' series is Authentication and Personalization. RIA Services makes this easy to do... let Brad show you! An Annotated Line of Business Application Jesse Liberty is walking through the design and delivery of his HyperVideo project with this mini tutorial. Want to understand the thought process behind the LOB app, check this out. How to hack Expression Blend Seems like there was just some discussion about some of this today and here Scott Barnes posts this hack job for Expression Blend... pretty cool actually :) d:DesignInstance in Blend 4 Christopher Bennage has a follow-on post about using d:DesignInstance in Blend 4, and this is a very nice tutorial on the subject Silverlight TV 19: Hidden Gems from MIX10, UFC's Multi-Touch App John Papa and Ward Bell front and center for Silverlight TV number 19... and check out those threads! Stay in the 'Light! Twitter SilverlightNews | Twitter WynApse | WynApse.com | Tagged Posts | SilverlightCream Join me @ SilverlightCream | Phoenix Silverlight User Group Technorati Tags: Silverlight    Silverlight 3    Silverlight 4    Windows Phone MIX10

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  • Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Apr 15-18, 2010

    - by SanjeevAgarwal
    Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Apr 15-18, 2010 Web Development Guarding against CSRF Attacks in ASP.NET MVC2 - Scott Kirkland Same Markup: Writing Cross-Browser Code - Tony Ross Introducing Machine.Specifications.Mvc - James Broome ASP.NET 4 - Breaking Changes and Stuff to be Aware of - Scott Hanselman JSON Hijacking in ASP.NET MVC 2 - Matt Easy And Safe Model Binding In ASP.NET MVC - Justin Etheredge MVC Portable Areas Enhancement - Embedded Resource Controller - Steve Michelotti...(read more)

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  • New book in the style of Advanced Programming Language Design by R. A. Finkel [closed]

    - by mfellner
    I am currently researching visual programming language design for a university paper and came across Advanced Programming Language Design by Raphael A. Finkel from 1996. Other, older discussions in the same vein on Stackoverflow have mentioned Language Implementation Patterns by Terence Parr and Programming Language Pragmatics* by Michael L. Scott. I was wondering if there is even more (and especially up-to-date) literature on the general topic of programming language design. *) http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~scott/pragmatics/

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  • It's Not TV- It's OTN: Top 10 Videos on the OTN YouTube Channel

    - by Bob Rhubart
    It's been a while since we checked in on what people are watching on the Oracle Technology Network YouTube Channel. Here are the Top 10 video for the last 30 days. Tom Kyte: Keeping Up with the Latest in Database Technology Tom Kyte expands on his keynote presentation at the Great Lakes Oracle Conference with tips for developers, DBAs and others who want to make sure they are prepared to work with the latest database technologies. That Jeff Smith: Oracle SQL Developer Oracle SQL Developer product manager Jeff Smith (yeah, that Jeff Smith) talks about his presentations at the Great Lakes Oracle Conference and shares his reaction to keynote speaker C.J. Date's claim that "SQL dropped the ball." Gwen Shapira: Hadoop and Oracle Database Oracle ACE Director Gwen Shapira @gwenshap talks about the fit between Hadoop and Oracle Database and dives into the details of why Oracle Loader for Hadoop is 5x faster. Kai Yu: Virtualization and Cloud Oracle ACE Director Kai Yu talks about the questions he is most frequently asked when he does presentations on cloud computing and virtualization. Mark Sewtz: APEX 4.2 Mobile App Development Application Express developer Marc Sewtz demos the new features he built into APEX4.2 to support Mobile App Development. Jeremy Schneider: RAC Attack Oracle ACE Jeremy Schneider @jer_s describes what you can expect when you come to a RAC (Real Application Cluster) Attack. Frits Hoogland: Exadata Under the Hood Oracle ACE Director Frits Hoogland (@fritshoogland) talks about the secret sauce under Exadata's hood. David Peake: APEX 4.2 New Features David Peake, PM for Oracle Application Express, gives a quick overview of some of the new APEX features. Greg Marsden: Hugepages = Huge Performance on Linux Greg Marsden of Oracle's Linux Kernel Engineering Team talks about some common customer performance questions and making the most of Oracle Linux 6 and Transparent HugePages. John Hurley: NEOOUG and GLOC 2013 Northeast Ohio Oracle User Group president John Hurley talks about the background and success of the 2013 Great Lakes Oracle Conference.

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  • Group Policy Trust Problem

    - by Scott
    Hi, I've setup a new group policy for our windows XP users but now when they run a link to a program they get a trust box which they have to click 'run' on. I think its a trusted locations thing ie, mapped drives, etc. Is there a quick way to stop this happening ? Any help would be very much appreciated. Regards Scott

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  • How can I forward all web traffic from my Cisco ASA 5100 to a checkpoint firewall?

    - by Scott Clements
    Hi, I currently have two Cisco ASA 5100 routers setup with a site-to-site VPN at different physical locations. They are successfully configured so that all traffic at our remote site is forwarded over this VPN tunnel to our router here, which is fine, however I need the web traffic that comes here to then be forwarded onto our Check Point firewall router. Can someone please tell me how I can configure this?? Many Thanks, Scott

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  • Aggregating Excel cell contents that match a label [migrated]

    - by Josh
    I'm sure this isn't a terribly difficult thing, but it's not the type of question that easily lends itself to internet searches. I've been assigned a project for work involving a complex spreadsheet. I've done the usual =SUM and other basic Excel formulas, and I've got enough coding background that I'm able to at least fudge my way through VBA, but I'm not certain how to proceed with one part of the task. Simple version: On Sheet 1 I have a list of people (one on each row, person's name in column A), on sheet 2 I have a list of groups (one on each row, group name in column A). Each name in Sheet 1 has its own row, and I have a "Data Validation" dropdown menu where you choose the group each person belongs to. That dropdown is sourced from Sheet 2, where each group has a row. So essentially the data validation source for Sheet 1's "Group" column is just "=Sheet2!$a1:a100" or whatever. The problem is this: I want each group row in Sheet 2 to have a formula which results in a list of all the users which have been assigned to that group on Sheet 1. What I mean is something the equivalent of "select * from PeopleTab where GROUP = ThisGroup". The resulting cell would just stick the names together like "Bob Smith, Joe Jones, Sally Sanderson" I've been Googling for hours but I can't think of a way to phrase my search query to get the results I want. Here's an example of desired result (Dash-delimited. Can't find a way to make it look nice, table tags don't seem to work here): (Sheet 1) Bob Smith - Group 1 (selected from dropdown) Joe Jones - Group 2 (selected from dropdown) Sally Sanderson - Group 1 (selected from dropdown) (Sheet 2) Group 1 - Bob Smith, Sally Sanderson (result of formula) Group 2 - Joe Jones (result of formula) What formula (or even what function) do I use on that second column of sheet 2 to make a flat list out of the members of that group?

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  • SQL Server 2005, Huge LDF file.

    - by Scott Jackson
    Hi, I have a database running on SQL Server 2005. The database is 20Gb and the LDF file is 35Gb ! I'm now running low on disk space and want to shrink the log file. How can I do this and how can I stop this happening again ? Many thanks Scott

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  • Download ASP.NET MVC Source Code

    - by Editor
    From Scott Guthrie’s blog: Last month I blogged about our ASP.NET MVC Roadmap. Two weeks ago we shipped the ASP.NET Preview 2 Release. Phil Haack from the ASP.NET team published a good blog post about the release here. Scott Hanselman has created a bunch of great ASP.NET MVC tutorial videos [...]

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  • wireless router on LAN

    - by Scott
    Hi, Can I put a wireless router (for a laptop to talk to) which is configured to use DHCP on our work LAN ? I just need the laptop to be able to talk to the internet. Will it automatically get the gateway information when it is assigned an IP via DHCP ? Thanks Scott

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  • Untrusted Location

    - by Scott Jackson
    Hi, I've recently switched to roaming profiles in an XP and Windows 7 environment and also changed the login script. Can anyone tell me where I would find the info regarding messages that appear when people are launching various in-house apps : This program is from an untrusted location, Click Run or Cancel. The programs run but users need to click 'Run' first. Thanks Scott

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  • Junit test bluej [closed]

    - by user1721929
    Can someone make a junit test of this? public class PersonName { int NumberNames(String wholename) { // store the name passed in to the method String testname=wholename; // initialize number of names found int numnames=0; // on each iteration remove one name while(testname.length()>numnames) { // take the "white space" from the beginning and end testname = testname.trim(); // determine the position of the first blank // .. end of the first word int posBlank= testname.indexOf(' '); // cut off word /** * it continues to the stop sign because that is where you commanded it to end */ testname=testname.substring(posBlank+1,testname.length()); // System.out.println(numnames); // System.out.println(testname); numnames++; System.out.println(testname); } return numnames; } public static void main(String args[]) { PersonName One= new PersonName(); System.out.println(One.NumberNames("Bobby")); System.out.println(One.NumberNames("Bobby Smith")); System.out.println(One.NumberNames("Bobby L. Smith")); System.out.println(One.NumberNames(" Bobby Paul Smith Jr. ")); } }

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  • May 2010 Chicago Architects Group Meeting

    - by Tim Murphy
    The Chicago Architects Group will be holding its next meeting on May 18th.  Please come and join us and get involved in our architect community. Register Presenter: Scott Seely  Topic: Azure For Architects       Location: TechNexus 200 S. Wacker Dr., Suite 1500 Room A/B Chicago, IL 60606 Time: 5:30 - Doors open at 5:00 del.icio.us Tags: Chicago Architects Group,Azure,Scott Seely

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  • Syncing contacts to iOS device with Exchange

    - by flackend
    I set up a Microsoft Exchange account on my iOS device to sync my Gmail contacts. But Microsoft Exchange is ignoring phone numbers that are labeled as 'iPhone' or 'main'. For example, John Smith: On Mac and Gmail: John Smith main: 123-334-1212 home: 123-330-1002 work: 123-330-8211 iPhone: 123-778-5556 On iOS device (via Exchange sync): John Smith home: 123-330-1002 work: 123-330-8211 I'd like to sync my contacts from my Mac to iCloud and Gmail, but you can't do both: Is there a solution to sync iOS and Gmail contacts without using Exchange? Thanks for any help!

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  • Mass bulk add domains to web hosting service (possible?)

    - by Scott
    I was wondering if anyone does bulk adding of domains to your web hosting provider (Amazon, Linode, Rackspace, etc). I am thinking of creating a product that allows user to host their site on top of my web hosting and want something that can allow me to bulk add domains (and point DNS to my web hosting DNS) with as little manual work as possible. I am thinking of getting a VPS to do this. Is this possible even? Thanks Scott

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  • Visual Studio Extension: Web Essentials

    - by BizTalk Visionary
    To quote Scott Hanselman…. Visual Studio 2010 is really extensible and that's allowed many folks on the team to try out new features for Web Development without having to rebuild Visual Studio itself. One of those "playground" extensions is called "Web Essentials" by Mads Kristensen. Mads handles HTML5 and CSS3 tools for our team. You might remember Mads from when we released the Web Standards Update a few months back. Get it here: Scott Nanselman blog...

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  • Announcing the ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate

    In this article, Scott provides a detailed overview of the features included with ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate. He examines some of the key features such as Razor Intellisense within Visual Studio, NuGet Package Manager, Partial Page Output Caching, Unobtrusive JavaScript and Validation, Remote Validator and Granular Request Validation. He also provides the links to the PDC Talk rendered by Scott Hanselman regarding ASP.NET MVC 3 including new improvements shipped with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate.

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  • TeamSpeak3 libraries

    - by Scott
    I've downloaded the TeamSpeak 3 server from their official website (it's 64 bit, as my dedicated server is 64 bit too). This is what I get,when I'm trying to run the server: Starting the TeamSpeak 3 server TeamSpeak 3 server started, for details please view the log file /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: scott# /lib/libiconv.so.3: unsupported file layout Whats wrong? /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 exists, same as the second one, is there any solution for that?

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  • TeamSpeak3 libraries

    - by Scott
    I've downloaded the TeamSpeak 3 server from their official website (it's 64 bit, as my dedicated server is 64 bit too). This is what I get,when I'm trying to run the server: Starting the TeamSpeak 3 server TeamSpeak 3 server started, for details please view the log file /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: scott# /lib/libiconv.so.3: unsupported file layout Whats wrong? /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 exists, same as the second one, is there any solution for that?

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  • Oracle Text????~????????????????????????

    - by Yuichi Hayashi
    Oracle Text?? ????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????? Oracle Text ????????????????? ????? Oracle Text ??Oracle Database ????????????????????? Oracle Text ????????????????·?????????????? ???Edition???????? - Oracle Database Enterprise Edition(EE) - Oracle Database Standard Edition(SE) - Oracle Database Standard Edition One - Oracle Database Express Edition(XE) ?????? Oracle ??????? Database Configuration Assistant(DBCA)?????????????Oracle Text ?????????????????? ??????????????????????????????? ???????????????????(?????)????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????? (1) ~ (4)???????????????????? (1) ????? Oracle Text???????(ctxsys)???????????????(????? SCOTT)???? CTXAPP?????????? SQL connect ctxsys/ SQL grant ctxapp to scott; (2) ???? ? ?????? SQL connect scott/tiger SQL create table test ( 2 id number primary key, 3 text varchar2(80) ); SQL insert into test ( id, text ) values ( 1, 'The cat sat on the mat' ); SQL insert into test ( id, text ) values ( 2, 'The dog barked like a dog' ); SQL insert into test ( id, text ) values ( 3, '??????????' ); SQL commit; (3) ???????(??) ??????????????????? ?????????: test_lexer ???????? JAPANESE_VGRAM_LEXER????????? SQL connect scott/tiger SQL execute ctx_ddl.create_preference('test_lexer','JAPANESE_VGRAM_LEXER'); ???? ???? OracleText???????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???? ???????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????? ??????? - JAPANESE_VGRAM_LEXER:????2???????????????????? - JAPANESE_LEXER (Oracle Text 9.0.1???????):???????????????????????????? ??????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? (4) ????????? TEST?????????????????? SQL create index test_idx on test ( text ) 2 indextype is ctxsys.context 3 parameters ('lexer test_lexer'); (5) ????????? "??"?????????????????? SQL col text for a30 SQL select id, text from test 2 where contains ( text, '??') 0; ID TEXT ---------- ------------------------------ 3 ?????????? ¦???? ???????/???Oracle Text ?? ????????Oracle Text ????

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  • How to handle recurring dates (dates only) in .NET?

    - by Wayne M
    I am trying to figure out a good way to handle recurring events in .NET, specifically for an ASP.NET MVC application. The idea is that a user can create an event and specify that the event can occur repeatedly after a specific interval (e.g. "every two weeks", "once a month" and so on). What would be the best way to tackle this? My brainstorming right now is to have two tables: Job and RecurringJob. Job is the "master" record and has the description of the job as well a key to what customer it's for, while RecurringJob links back to Job and has additional info on what the occurrence frequency is (e.g. 1 for "once a month") as well as the timespan (e.g. "Weekly", "Monthly"). The issue is how to determine and set the next occurrence of the job since this will have to be something that's done regularly. I've seen two trains of thought with this: This logic should either be stored in a database column and periodically updated, or calculated on the fly in the code. Any thoughts or suggestions on tackling this? Edit: this is for a subscription based web app I'm creating to let service businesses schedule their common recurring jobs easily and track their customers. So a typical use might be to create a "Cut lawn" job for Mr Smith that occurs every month The exact date isn't important - it's the ability for the customer to see that Mr Smith gets his lawn cut every month and followup with him about it. Let me rephrase the above to better convey my idea. A sample use case for the application might be as follows: User pulls up the customer record for John Smith and clicks the Add Job link. The user fills out the form to create a job with a name of "Cut lawn", a start date of 11/15/2009, and selects a checkbox indicating that this job continually occurs. The user is presented with a secondary screen asking for the job frequency. The user indicates (haven't decided how at this point - let's assume select lists) that the job occurs once a month. User clicks save. Now, when the user views the record for John Smith, they can see that he has a job, "Cut lawn", that occurs every month starting from 11/15/2009. On the main dashboard when it's one week prior to the assumed start date, the user sees the job displayed with an indicator such as "12/15/2009 - Cut lawn (John Smith)". A week before the due date someone from the company calls him up to schedule and he says he's going to be out of town until 1/1/2010, so he wants his appointment rescheduled for that date. Our user can change the date for the job to be 1/1/2010, and now the recurrence will start one month from that date (e.g. next time will be 2/1/2010). The idea behind this is that the app is targeting businesses like lawn care, plumbers, carpet cleaners and the like where the exact date isn't as important (because it can and will change as people are busy), the key thing is to give the business an indicator that Mr. Smith's monthly service is coming up, and someone should give him a call to determine when exactly it can be scheduled for. In effect give these businesses a way to track repeat business and know when it's time to followup with a customer.

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  • App crashes after a few seconds

    - by Declan Scott
    when i launch my app, on trying to do something, it will crash after a couple of seconds. I have warnings of warning: incorrect implementation of "downloadTextViewCOntroller. I also have "method definiton for -timerFinished not found and"method definiton for -timerFinished not found" this is my .m plese help me. the .h is also t the bottom // // downloadTextViewController.m // downloadText // // Created by Declan Scott on 18/03/10. // Copyright MyCompanyName 2010. All rights reserved. // #import "downloadTextViewController.h" @implementation downloadTextViewController @synthesize start; -(IBAction)tapit { start.hidden = YES; } -(void)accelerometer:(UIAccelerometer *)accelerometer didAccelerate:(UIAcceleration *)acceleration { if (fabsf(acceleration.x) 2.0 || fabsf(acceleration.y) 2.0 || fabsf(acceleration.z) 2.0) { UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:nil message:@"This app was developed by Declan Scott and demonstrates NSURLConnection and NSMutableData" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil]; [alert show]; [alert release]; } } (NSString *) saveFilePath { NSArray *pathArray = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES); return [[pathArray objectAtIndex:0] stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"savedddata.plist"]; } (void)applicationWillTerminate:(UIApplication *)application { NSArray *values = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:textView.text,nil]; [values writeToFile:[self saveFilePath] atomically:YES]; [values release]; } (void)viewDidLoad { UIAccelerometer *accelerometer = [UIAccelerometer sharedAccelerometer]; accelerometer.delegate = self; accelerometer.updateInterval = 1.0f/60.0f; NSString *myPath = [self saveFilePath]; NSLog(myPath); BOOL fileExists = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:myPath]; if (fileExists) { NSArray *values = [[NSArray alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:myPath]; textView.text = [values objectAtIndex:0]; [values release]; } // notification UIApplication *myApp = [UIApplication sharedApplication]; // add yourself to the dispatch table [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(applicationWillTerminate:) name:UIApplicationWillTerminateNotification object:myApp]; [super viewDidLoad]; } // Implement viewDidLoad to do additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib. - (IBAction)fetchData { loadingAlert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Loading…\n\n\n\n" message:nil delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel Timer" otherButtonTitles:nil]; [loadingAlert show]; UIActivityIndicatorView *activityView = [[UIActivityIndicatorView alloc] initWithActivityIndicatorStyle:UIActivityIndicatorViewStyleWhite]; activityView.frame = CGRectMake(139.0f-18.0f, 60.0f, 37.0f, 37.0f); [loadingAlert addSubview:activityView]; [activityView startAnimating]; timer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:10.0f target:self selector:@selector(timerFinished) userInfo:nil repeats:NO]; NSURLRequest *downloadRequest = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://simpsonatyapps.com/exampletext.txt"] cachePolicy:NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringCacheData timeoutInterval:1.0]; NSURLConnection *downloadConnection = [[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:downloadRequest delegate:self]; if (downloadConnection) downloadedData = [[NSMutableData data] retain]; else { // Error } } (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)downloadConnection didReceiveData:(NSData *)data { [downloadedData appendData:data]; NSString *file = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:downloadedData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]; textView.text = file; // get rid of alert [loadingAlert dismissWithClickedButtonIndex:-1 animated:YES]; [loadingAlert release]; /// add badge [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setApplicationIconBadgeNumber:1]; } (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning { // Releases the view if it doesn't have a superview. [super didReceiveMemoryWarning]; // Release any cached data, images, etc that aren't in use. } (void)viewDidUnload { // Release any retained subviews of the main view. // e.g. self.myOutlet = nil; } (void)dealloc { [super dealloc]; } (NSCachedURLResponse *)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection willCacheResponse:(NSCachedURLResponse *)cachedResponse { return nil; } @end // // downloadTextViewController.h // downloadText // // Created by Declan Scott on 18/03/10. // Copyright MyCompanyName 2010. All rights reserved. // import @interface downloadTextViewController : UIViewController { IBOutlet UITextView *textView; NSMutableData *downloadedData; UIAlertView *loadingAlert; NSTimer *timer; IBOutlet UIButton *start; } - (IBAction)fetchData; - (IBAction)tapIt; - (void)timerFinished; @property (nonatomic, retain) UIButton *start; @end

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  • Is there an IDE that can simplify the process of creating a game matchmaking website?

    - by Scott
    Yes, I'm an old guy. And I'm well versed in "C" and have written several games which I have been selling on the web for a number of years. And now, I would like to adapt one of my games to be "online". Sounds simple. I'm sure I can use the thousands of lines of "C" code that I've already written. Right? So my initial investigation begins. First, I think I'll need a server program that lives on a dedicated server (or a VPS probably) that talks to a bunch of client applications that live on individual devices around the world. I can certainly handle that! (I think to myself). I'll break up my existing game into two pieces, a client piece that is just the game displays and buttons, and a server piece that does everything else. Piece of cake, right? But that means that the "server piece" must be executed on a remote machine somewhere and run 24/7. Can I do that? [apparently, that question is so basic, so uneducated, and so lame, that nobody has ever posed it before. Because hours of Googling does not yield an answer. Fine. I'll assume I can do that and move on.] I'll need a "game room", which to me means a website where you log in and then go to a lobby of some kind where you can setup your preferences, see if any of your friends are connected, and create or join games. Should be easy, but it's not. No way. Can I do all this with my local website builder? (which happens to be 90 Second Website Builder, a nice product, btw). It turns out, I can not. I can start with that, but must modify each page, so I can interact with my sql database. So I begin making each page a "PHP" page and dynamically modifying the HTML code with PHP code. I'm already starting to get a headache. Because the resulting web pages looked terrible, I began looking at using JQuery. I want to user a JQuery dialog on my website to display a list of friends and allow the user to select one to invite to the game. [google search for "how to populate a JQuery dialog from a sql database" yields nothing but more confusion.] Javascript? Java? HTML? XML? HTML5? PHP? JQuery? Flash? Sockets? Forms? CSS? Learning about each one of these, and how they interact with each other and/or depend on each other is too much for my feeble old brain. Can anyone simplify this process for me? Is there an IDE that will help me do all this without having to go back to college for a few years? Thanks, Scott

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