Writing software for several languages is an ever recurrent challenge. Ruby on Rails provides solutions to most of the standard problems in web development. But it needed time until the version 2.2. for the “Internationalization API ” to become an official part of Ruby on Rails. .
The Jad check is a quality assurance tool for providers of mobile Java software.
The check examines the so-called Jad file on frequently occurring errors. Some errors are otherwise very hard to find, so you save time during troubleshooting. Other errors leads to installation problems on only a few phones. According to Murphy Law, typically the phones of the most important customers. As a provider the test helps to avoid trouble and increases your customer satisfaction.
Our culture determines what we like, much more than we think. You notice it when you come across a very different culture. There is a interesting report about chinese design for classic and mobile internet. Continue Reading →
In my programming work I often switch between different programming languages. It’s not so difficult, but problems sometimes appear just at very simple things.
Strings in PHP are really easy to compare, there is the “==” operator. But there lurks a trap: Continue Reading →
Slip Danger
Slip DangerMost website owners want their pages to be well found through Google. So Google needs to be aware of each of your web pages and “understand” them. In order to help Google to find each important page, you can create a special file called “Google Sitemap”. So far so good.
A use case for the mobile web.
Summer with friends at Flensburgs beach. In the late afternoon we get hungry. How about pizza? W. says, that the pizza service “Joeys” would deliver here. However, we have no flyer of them, not to mention a phone book. What we have are many phones. Continue Reading →
You can use the App Engine to retrieve web pages or other information from foreign servers and process them in your python program.
This must obviously be limited, because the abuse potential is very high. Therefore you can not call all possible Internet services. You can retrieve only “web pages” or everything that a Web server is offering on port 80 or 443.