Cool: free starter is a PDF with chapters 1-4.
–jeroen
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Free Chapters 1-4 Professional Android Programming with Mono for Android and .NET/C# | Wrox P2P
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/27
Posted in .NET, Android, C#, Development, Mobile Development, Mono for Android, Software Development | Tagged: free chapters, free starter, gadgets, mono, pdf, technology | Leave a Comment »
Many more event videos available at Channel 9 (was: PDC10 – view Microsoft PDC 2010 sessions on your PC)
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/28
Dang; I thought this had long left the posting queue, but somehow it ended in the drafts (:
Since then, many more event videos made it to Channel 9, including Build 2011, and TechDays 2012.
Anyway, here it is:
Microsoft’s PDC 2010 was held at the end of October 2010 in Redmond, WA, USA.
For the people that could not attend, it is very nice to view the sessions using the PDC10 player (it seems still people didn’t learn and start stripping the century parts from years again!).
Even if you are not using Visual Studio, .NET Azure or other Microsoft Technologies, there are a lot of interesting sessions showing the directions that Microsoft is taking.
Comparing that to what you do today is always a good thing to do: it helps you reflect, an important part of your personal development.
A few things I found interesting (in no particular order):
- Asynchrony support in C# 5 and VB.NET 11 based on the Task Parallel Library
- The choice to favour HTML 5 over SilverLight, even though Internet Explorer 9 and Microsoft’s HTML 5 authoring/development tools are far from ready
- Azure reporting: is reporting the next big thing on clouds?
- Offline versus online in the cloud world
- NuPack – does it bring package management to the same level as Ruby or *nix?
- XNA for XBox, Windows and Windows Phone
Enjoy!
–jeroen
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Great session on how to prevent SQL Injection Myths and Fallacies
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/15
A few weeks ago, Bill Karwin did a must watch webinar on the prevention SQL Injection titled “SQL Injection Myths and Fallacies“.
Bill Karwin (twitter, new blog, old blog, Amazon) is famous for much work in the SQL database community, including InterBase/Firebird, mySQL, Oracle and many more.
He also:
- was product manager of InterBase (its screaming multi-generational database architecture – invented in the 80s by Jim Starkey, based on immutability now far more widespread and called MultiVersion Concurrency Control – still baffles many people)
- worked on Firebird
- is author of the book The Pragmatic Bookshelf | SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programmings, available on Amazon.
- is autohor of IBPerl
- is frequent answerer on many SQL related forums and QA sites, for instance Bill on StackOverflow
Anyway, his webinar is awesome. Be sure to get the slides, watch the replay, and read the questions follow up.
Watching it you’ll get a better understanding of defending against SQL injection.
A few very valuable points he made: Read the rest of this entry »
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Installing Eclipse, Android SDK and ADT on Mac OS X
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/24
Just in case I need to get my Android contacts issue solved by brushing off some Java knowledge and going for Java using Eclipse on my MacBook Air:
- Installing Eclipse on Mac OS X.
- How to Install the Android SDK (Software Development Kit).
(I already had an old version of this because of my MonoDroid experiments from the past, so I could upgrade to the latest by using the Android SDK and AVD Manager, in fact I was two versions behind the current, which means now there is are a separate Android SDK Manager for installing development stuff and AVD Manager for managing the virtual Android devices) - ADT Plugin | Android Developers, which integrates both the SDK and AVD managers (and a truckload of other stuff) into Eclipse.
(But oy, I wish they digitally signed their stuff like Eclipse expects;
the same holds for the Eclipse examples themselves; they are unsigned too).
All of the above was to try out this: Android-er: Create SD Card in Android Emulator and copy files into, in Eclipse, Emulator and DDMS..
Which in turn I needed for this: Current status on the “Android help needed: App that cleans up the Contacts mess that the LinkedIn app left behind” « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff.
–jeroen
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Embarcadero has some cool new Delphi iOS technology in the pipeline (via: Xcode – Debug iOS application on device without symbols – Stack Overflow)
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/06/27
Today exactly a month ago, Allen Bauer (Chief Scientist at Embarcadero) asked a really in depth question about debugging the startup sequence of iOS apps on a device not originating from Xcode on Stack Overflow indicating on what Embarcadero is researching.
Last week, he also answered the same question using manual steps for GDB. Not easy, but it works.
For a development tools company, getting your tools to work on a new platform is hard, and in this case it seems exceptionally hard.
I’m really looking forward to see what kind of cool tools come out of this, as the current developemt platform choices (Xcode or MonoTouch) can really use more competition to make it easier for us developers.
Exciting times ahead (:
–jeroen
via: xcode – Debug iOS application on device without symbols – Stack Overflow.
PS: I really love the comment by Danny Thorpe on using Periscope breakout switches – I remember those NMI days well (:
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There is a great Android Design – UI Overview site, but no great UI design tools for Android
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/02/15
Recently the Android Design site was launched with great explanation on how to properly design UIs for Android Apps.
Like Apple’s iOS Human Interface Guidelines and Microsoft’s User Experience Design Guidelines for Windows Phone they are a must for any mobile developer.
Together with sites like Android UI Design Patterns, and mockup stencil tools, more Android UI mockup sketch tools and stencils allow you to give prospective users an impression on how an app might be looking like when developed.
What is lacking is a set of real Android GUI design tools. The kind of tools like the Xcode Interface Builder for iOS, or Expression Blend for Windows Phone that – together with iOS PSD templates or Windows Phone design templates (and more templates) – give you a killer start.
Also note Delphi XE2 that has a great UI designer which has consistently covered Windows UI design for 15+ years, including multi-touch and gesture support, and now covers Mac OS X and iOS for HD and 3D apps (but not yet with multi-touch or gesture support).
The only design tool for Android I could find is DroidDraw that emits the XML needed for Android UIs. It is painfully slow and lacks basic things like a property window to edit properties of UI elements.
Given the number of Android app developers, there is much room for improvement.
- Am I missing something here?
- What kind of tools are you using?
–jeroen
via: Android Design – UI Overview.
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Allocating 4Gb+ of memory in x64 using Delphi XE2 Update 2: Unofficial fix for QC#100726 …
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/11/09
If you are creating x64 applications using Delphi XE2, have Update 2 installed, and are (potentially) allocating more than 4Gb of memory (QC report 100726), then you need the Unofficial fix for QC#100726, or use the latest version of FastMM (see below).
If you use Delphi XE2 (original release) or Update 1, then you don’t have problems in this scenario.
Thanks to FastMM author Pierre le Riche for providing this fix so quickly.
Note that the latest 4.x release of FastMM is now FastMM 4.99 and contains the same fix.
–jeroen
Via: Embarcadero Discussion Forums: Unofficial fix for QC#100726 ….
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MonoTouch 5.0 released: iOS 5 support for Mono on the iOS 5 release day
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/10/13
With the and iOS 5 release today and the MonoDevelop 2.8 release last week, there is also a new MonoTouch 5.0 released that binds the two and allows you to develop iOS 5 using Mono.
Almost like a mirracle: on the iOS 5 release day, MonoTouch 5 gets released. Lot’s of new stuff to play with, just read the announcement :)
Quote: “If you already have MonoTouch, simply launch MonoDevelop and you will be prompted to update – it’s that easy!”
Be sure to also read the new MonoTouch 5 documentation on new iOS 5 features and the comprehensive API diff between MonoTouch 4.2 and 5.0.
–jeroen
via: MonoTouch 5.0 – MonoTouch.
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Bring back support for Smart Device Extensions – Customer Feedback for Microsoft
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/10/11
Having done quite a bit of Windows CE development work in .NET, I totally support the below UserVoice request: re-add support for Windows CE in Visual Studio 2010.
Please vote both the underlying Microsoft connect request, and the uservoice entryif you support it too!
Bring back support for Smart Device Extensions
Microsoft caused outrage when without warning or explanation they dropped support for the Smart Device Extensions. Meaning that there is no support for both managed (Compact Framework) and unmanaged (C++) development for the Windows CE platform.
Microsoft promised support would be added by the time VS2010 was released but then back tracked, to date the official line is use VS2008. This product is nearly 4 years old, it is becoming increasingly more impractical to use VS2008 solely for the purpose of developing for the Windows CE platform. Many development teams invested heavily in the benefit of having a single UI for both embedded and desktop development, with the advent of the Compact Framework skill sets and more importantly the code base could easily be shared across platforms. This is now no longer true, as the desktop development/source control/build/test environments have moved on the embedded development environment is stuck in the past. This means duplication of code, duplication of effort and increased cost.
Anyone wanting to start developing for Windows CE has to first buy an MSDN subscription because you can no longer buy VS2008 retail.
As support for Smart Devices has been inherent in VS since VS2003 many people have been caught out when upgrading to VS2010, in many cases those who make their living in the embedded world are now stuck with no upgrade path. Microsoft has refused to comment or discuss the future of embedded development, this silence has forced many to look at alternative platforms.
One of the top voted suggestions on the Connect site was to restore Smart Device Extension support in VS2010, Microsoft has ignored this in typical fashion.
See the Connect Item.
–jeroen
via Bring back support for Smart Device Extensions – Customer Feedback for Microsoft.
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.NET based iOS development: MonoTouch 4.2.2 is out
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/30
While starting MonoDevelop this morning, I found out that MonoTouch 4.2.2 is out.
New Features in MonoTouch 4.2.2
This is a minor update to MonoTouch 4.2, with the following bug fixes:
Changes in MonoTouch 4.2.2
Bug fixes:
- #587 – Full-AOT failure when *not* linking the application
- #923 – UISegmentedControl: -[NSCFString BridgeSelector]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0xe084860
- #931 – UITapGestureRecognizer fails with “unrecognized selector sent”
- #942 – Wrong binding for CGPDFArray.GetDictionary()
- #975 – CGPDFDictionary.GetString() returns invalid strings
- #980 – Cannot use ABPeoplePickerNavigationController after update to 4.2
–jeroen
via: MonoTouch 4.2 – MonoTouch.
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