Build mobile apps faster with PhoneGap

Native mobile apps within hours, not weeks?  How so, you say? For example you need to built a company directory, a calculator, a webapp that uses GPS, camera or accelerator, just like a native app would do. Yes, it is possible with PhoneGap, a native app living on your smartphone and running HTML, CSS and […]

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PHP Search records from file

The task: Write a PHP script to do the following: Read the class list in a text file, Store the records in some data structure that allows the user to search the records by ID, first name, or last name. The script provides the user with three options to input either the ID, first name, […]

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iOS App Icon Photoshop template

As you might know, I’ve recently released a game for iOS, it is called “Bubble Scramble Lite”  and I’ve learned quite a bit while developing the game for iPhone / iPod. One of the things that I found incredibly useful and necessary was a way to create icons for my application quickly and efficiently. Otherwise it […]

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Is a Windows 7 handset worth it?

A lot of people took to the Windows 7 phone market when it initially launched, but nowhere near the amount who leapt onto the iPhone bandwagon, laughing at other platforms as iOS became the most popular destination for applications on the market. However, there are remains a dedicated userbase, so let’s take a look at […]

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PHP script to create thumbnails for images

The task: Write a PHP script to get images from database (database table “PHOTOS”), resize them and output them in the browser. Here’s my quick solution(not optimized): thumb.php [sourcecode language=”php”] <?php require_once(‘dbconfig.php’); // file that stores our database connection variables require_once(‘functions.php’); // resize script try { if (!isset($_GET[‘id’])) { throw new Exception(‘ID not specified’); } […]

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