Elephantsquared. » development http://elephantsquared.com hypertext & software Sat, 19 May 2012 10:59:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Gowalla now available at the Android Market http://elephantsquared.com/2010/03/gowalla-now-available-at-the-android-market/ http://elephantsquared.com/2010/03/gowalla-now-available-at-the-android-market/#comments Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:59:24 +0000 George T http://elephantsquared.com/?p=1259 It’s been a couple of weeks since Gowalla released a beta version for Android. Now it’s time for the first release which is available at the Android Market. Just go to ‘Market’ and search for ‘Gowalla’. Obviously this is a slightly better version than the beta one. (Note: I had to uninstall the beta version first because I kept getting an installation error ‘Package file was not signed correctly’)

On the other hand, Foursquare now has a new person leading the Android app development, Mark Wyszomierski. There are already some nice new features added to the latest foursquare app like adding friends, managing friend requests and global search.

What do you think? Who will eventually win? Foursquare or Gowalla?

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The “recording” period starts in April 2006 and ends in January 2010. Enjoy!

Did you noticed the music playing? Have you played the Braid game?

P.S. Project code_swarm is also available on Google Code and github.

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]]> http://elephantsquared.com/2010/02/twitter-project-code-swarm/feed/ 0 Appcelerator Titanium 0.7 is here! http://elephantsquared.com/2009/10/appcelerator-titanium-0-7-is-here/ http://elephantsquared.com/2009/10/appcelerator-titanium-0-7-is-here/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:50:38 +0000 George T http://elephantsquared.com/?p=733 Great news for all developers out there! Appcelerator Titanium 0.7 is here and this time better than any other time. 0.7 version offers great new features including Facebook Connect Integration for the iPhone, the ability to dynamically set control values and much more.

For those wondering what Appcelerator Titanium (Mobile) is:

Titanium Mobile offers you a way to create native mobile applications using your favorite web technologies, like HTML and Javascript. You get access to all native features, like geo-location, local filesystem and database access, and multi-touch and accelerometer controls, but without having to write a single line of native code. And because it’s cross-platform, your single codebase will work for both the iPhone and Android Phones.

Here are some highlights included in the latest version of Appcelerator Titanium.

  • Composite Views (mobile): display exactly what you want, where you want it by dividing up a single iPhone or Android view into multiple views.
  • More UI controls (mobile): scrollable views and native pickers give you more UI options. Combine with composite views to create an app that is uniquely yours.
  • Yahoo, Facebook, and Twitter integration: tap into over 300 APIs enabled by Yahoo Query Language (YQL) or build the next great social networking app powered by native Facebook or Twitter integration.
  • PHP Support (desktop): If you’re looking to hit backend services using PHP, Titanium Desktop now fully supports this language alongside Javascript, Python, Ruby, HTML, and CSS.
  • Debugging Enhancements: several improvements made to aid in your debug and QA efforts.
]]> http://elephantsquared.com/2009/10/appcelerator-titanium-0-7-is-here/feed/ 0 Google Web Toolkit 2, Milestone 1 is here http://elephantsquared.com/2009/10/google-web-toolkit-2-milestone-1-is-here/ http://elephantsquared.com/2009/10/google-web-toolkit-2-milestone-1-is-here/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:19:34 +0000 George T http://elephantsquared.com/?p=687 Amit Manjhi, a Google Web Toolkit developer announced two days ago the availability of the first milestone build for GWT 2.0. You can download it here but keep in mind that this is an early view, which means lots of bugs and stability issues. According to the announcement, many things are changing in GWT 2 that might otherwise be confusing without explanation. Some of the functionalities that are coming to GWT 2 include:

  • In-Browser Development Mode: Prior to 2.0, GWT hosted mode provided a special-purpose “hosted browser” to debug your GWT code. In 2.0, the web page being debugged is viewed within a regular-old browser.
  • Code Splitting: Developer-guided code splitting allows you to chunk your GWT code into multiple fragments for faster startup
  • Declarative User Interface: GWT’s UiBinder now allows you to create user interfaces mostly declaratively.
  • Bundling of resources (ClientBundle): GWT has shipped with ImageBundles since GWT v1.4, giving developers automatic spriting of images.
  • Using HtmlUnit for running GWT tests: GWT 2.0 no longer uses SWT or the old mozilla code (on linux) to run GWT tests. Instead, it uses HtmlUnit as the built-in browser.

As always, remember that GWT milestone builds like this are use-at-your-own-risk and we don’t recommend it for production use.

– Amit Manjhi, on behalf of the Google Web Toolkit team

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