Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Seeeduino ADK lets you build Android accessories on the cheap

For those of you who are also into hardware, here is a bit of good news.

You can start developing Android Open Accessories on the cheap, as in for about $80, as opposed to the $400 or so you'd need for the Google recommended dev kit.

Seeeduino ADK lets you build Android accessories on the cheap -- Engadget


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Re-skin your existing web app using jQuery Mobile

Here is an example of how to tweak your website to make it more mobile friendly.

Re-skin your existing web app using jQuery Mobile


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Monday, May 23, 2011

The Rise Of JSON

Interesting article and comments on the rise of JSON over XML.

Don't get your knickers in a knot if you are an XML evangelist.
It is horses for courses. It just seems that more horses are in the JSON course.

With the rapid takeup of javascript, JSON is a more natural fit for it than XML.


MIX Online: The Rise Of JSON


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Understanding JOINs in MySQL and Other Relational Databases

Understanding JOINs in MySQL and Other Relational Databases

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How does dynamic range compression change audio? How does distortion work?

For those of you who play electric guitar, or any other electric instrument, and are interested in how some of those effects work, here are 2 articles that shed some light into it.


http://www.howtogeek.com/64096/htg-explains-how-do-guitar-distortion-and-overdrive-work/

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In defense of CSS hacks — introducing “safe CSS hacks”

Mathias Bynens has created a nice article describing different ways of managing CSS for Internet Exploder.

It would had been great if IE never came to existence but, we are stuck with it, so we may as well find out how to live with it. 

(copious amounts of aspirin also help).

You can also look at my article or just pick all my IE articles by clicking on the IE label on the left side of this screen.

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