In object oriented programming there is the concept of classes and/or objects. These are nice encapsulated bits of code that allow one to store data and/or functionality. One of the ways to add data to an object is to give it some properties. The “right way” of doing this usually involves adding some private data …
iPhone SDK and Apple Finally Listening — Apple Computer’s Steve Jobs just announced that Apple would (finally!) provide an iPhone SDK to 3rd party developers in order to enable them to create native applications for the iPhone (and, incidentally, also for the iPod touch). While the actual SDK won’t ship until February 2008, this announcement …
Peer code review is happening behind the scenes at your competitor’s shop. Are they wasting their time or gaining a competitive advantage? What type of review actually works? 10 practical essays from industry experts giving specific techniques for effective peer code review: Cisco: The largest-ever case study of peer code review Modern experiments: results of …
One of the great things about WordPress plugin development is the abundance of open source content to learn from. Ever see a plugin in action and wonder, “how does that work?” or “How can I modify the WordPress XML-RPC system?” Well, all you have to do is download it and see! Most plugins are licensed …
I’ve been doing WordPress plugin development for a little while now. I finally got around to setting up a development environment for this purpose. I wanted to have all of the version 2 releases available for testing so I went to the WordPress site to see how many there were. Seventeen. Hmmm, this could take …
Most programming languages that I know and can think of use conditional tests and comparison operators. This is one of the most basic concepts in programming. A conditional test at it’s most basic form is testing whether a variable’s value is less than, equal to or greater than a constant or known value. You then …
Most of us have heard that a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, sometimes an example is worth a thousand words. Examples are like pictures in that they give a clear and visible snapshot of something that you are talking about. I am a software engineer and so I blog about programming on occasion. …
An article over at TechCrunch reviews a new company called vlingo who is developing a mobile API that developers can use to put speech recognition on mobile devices. Their system starts with a basic statistical language model to make the best guess about what you say. It then improves upon that by taking into account …
If you haven’t checked out the site Worse Than Failure (yeah, we all know what WTF stands for), then you should go right now. Bookmark it or subscribe to their feed. Some of the stuff they post is absolutely hilarious… if you are a programmer / technical type. Anyway today’s post is about someone being …
In the first part of this series titled “Would You Like To Post To WordPress From Java?” I introduced you (hopefully) to the XML-RPC mechanism that WordPress implements. I also showed how it is quite simple to post to a WordPress blog using Java and the Redstone XML-RPC API. In this installation I’d like to …