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Wikipedia reveals how Facebook's hip hop can pep up PHP sites
How Wikipedia halved the time it takes to make edits to its pages by switching to Facebook's Hip Hop Virtual Machine.
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How to add a dashed line in an Android layout
Save yourself hours of consternation by using this workaround to add a dashed line to your Android layout.
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Play with code in the .NET Fiddle sandbox
C# and VB.NET developers can use .NET Fiddle to play with code within a browser window and to share code via URL.
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Use Dreamweaver to find and fix your website's broken internal links
See why Dreamweaver is the ideal tool for locating and fixing broken internal links on your local websites.
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Three must-have web development tools
Tony Patton starts each web development project with a certain set of tools. See what's in his toolbox.
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Android developers, prepare for fine-grained user permissions
William J. Francis fills you in on the Android App Ops privacy feature and explains why he believes it's good for users and developers.
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A solution to our Android refactoring code challenge
Android developer William J. Francis presents one way to solve TechRepublic's recent coding challenge for members.
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Create an ASP.NET Web Forms website with Visual Studio 2013
Tony Patton describes what's included in a new ASP.NET Web Forms site created with Visual Studio 2013.
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Pro tip: Use Android's ObjectAnimator class to flip a view
Follow the three steps in this Android animation tutorial to learn how to achieve a wrap around the y-axis.
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Create your own web service for an iOS app, part three
This installment in our iOS development series explores creating and storing tags in order to exchange them.
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Microsoft Enterprise Library helps .NET developers be more productive
The Microsoft Enterprise Library offers reusable software components to assist with building .NET applications. Learn how to contribute to one or more of its projects.
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Best practices for developing an Appcelerator Titanium iOS app
When developing a Titanium mobile app for iOS, learn these best practices so you don't waste time being frustrated with performance and behavior issues.
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Pro tip: Customize the Android search view widget
This easy hack allows you to customize the text color and background of Android's search view widget.
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Code challenge: Use Android's updated animation APIs for a chance to win swag
We'll send TechRepublic swag to the reader who submits the most elegant refactoring of this Android sample. Get the details.
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Visual Studio Online: a nice companion to the full IDE
Tony Patton offers a first look at Visual Studio Online, which brings many of Visual Studio's features to modern browsers.
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Unit testing Android apps with Robolectric: advanced use cases
Learn how the Robolectric API is useful for various Android unit tests, such as when you're working with delayed and background tasks.
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Poll: Do you have access to essential development tools?
Do you feel like you have access to supplementary development tools and systems to do your job? Answer this poll question to let us know.
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Code concepts: LINQ's expression trees
In this overview about LINQ's expression trees, Justin James shows how you might use expression objects in your projects.
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An introduction to iPhone app development
Download the first chapter of iPhone for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach looks at iPhone functionality, the Cocoa frameworks, Objective-C programming and the iPhone SDK 3, and more.
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Review of dotTrace 3.1 performance profiling tool
Developer Justin James says that, if you're looking for an alternative to the Visual Studio profiler, give the dotTrace 3.1 performance tool a look.
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Create efficiency with centralization in distributed development
If you're interested in learning how centralization can help distributed development teams be more efficient and save time and money, register for this TechRepublic Webcast.
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What the iPad means to developers
Developers who want to leverage the Apple iPad to drive additional application downloads should read these key considerations.
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Use custom keyboard views for customized text field input
Replace the system keyboard with a custom keyboard view to customize text field input for your iOS App.
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Better Code: Add email functionality to your Apple iOS apps
Build in a feature that provides a way for users of your iOS app to send an email.
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More classic software development mistakes
There are more iOS development project mistakes than can be told in one list, be we try our best.
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Quantify the impact of Agile app development
Some expert guidance on how to effectively measure Agile development.
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Motion Events Part 1: Orientation and Shake-motion Detection in iOS
Motion information for iOS apps is made available through the use of motion events. This tutorial explains how it works.
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Understand memory management under ARC
Automatic Reference Counting does not change how memory management works, it only changes what you do as a programmer.
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Crowd source testing your iOS App
You can expect customers to find unanticipated problems with your app so the app should be tested in the real world before it's released.
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Build it yourself iOS Twitter client Part 2
Learn how to use refactoring and a third-party resource API to retrieve information for your custom Apple iOS application.