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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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Create a transparent progress dialog on Android
A game development hobby project inspired this app developer to figure out a way to create a transparent progress dialog that animates an image. He describes how to do it.
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The three must-have tools for ASP.NET developers
Tony Patton lists the three tools he could give a new ASP.NET developer so she could be productive.
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Update your iOS app to support iOS 7
It's time to get your apps ready for iOS 7, and it'll take a little more effort than just compiling with the latest Xcode.
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Interview with 13-year-old MIT App Inventor winner Arjun Kumar
Teen developer Arjun Kumar talks about the inspiration for his 2012 MIT App Inventor award-winning Android app, his current project, and his advice to young people.
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Android loaders: We meet at last
William J. Francis gives you a tutorial on Android loaders that covers just what you need to know to make things work.
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Speed up your Android development cycle with Genymotion
William J. Francis shares how the free Android emulator called Genymotion greatly increases his productivity.
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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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iOS Tutorial Part 1: Creating a Web service
Many apps use data pulled from the web, so developers need to know how to get and manipulate that data.
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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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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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Use design patterns when developing iOS apps
Read about the advantages to using a design pattern to document an iOS app's characteristics. Also, find out which design patterns are considered fundamental for iOS development.
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A developer's wish list for 2010
Developer Justin James has weighed in on what he thinks will be the development trends for 2010, and now he offers his personal wish list for the new year.
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Create your own web service for an iOS app, part one
Follow the steps in this tutorial to learn how to create the web service backend for an iOS app called iGlobe.
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Streamline CSS development with LESS
LESS is a dynamic stylesheet language that extends standard CSS. The result is leaner code that is easier to maintain.
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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.