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Well, if you are willing to wait until Apple provides the ability to run their SDK-based applications on actual hardware. Until then, you are forced to go through a quite long list of steps. While I've updated this process somewhat, it's still anything but "easy". Even then, when you get the whole thing working, you still have to know Objective-C. To some extent there is no getting around that without someone writing a giant abstraction for you: Apple's frameworks are all written in Objective-C, and their APIs are documented in it. This same issue came up on the desktop, and spawned a number of projects that connect Objective-C with other languages. The effort for porting this turned out to be minimal, and the maintainer of the project (Ronald Oussoren) has contacted me about merging my changes, which means that its support that is likely to stay around for quite a while.

A Sample Application A Quick Introduction The weirdest part, though, is NULL.

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» Tips for Everyone Doing the #codeyear ACRL Tech Connect

If you are a librarian interested in learning how to code, 2012 is a perfect year for you to start the project. Thanks to CodeAcademy ( free JavaScript lessons are provided every week at The lessons are interactive and geared towards beginners. So even if you do not have any previous experience in programming, you will be able to pick up the new skill soon enough as long as you are patient and willing to spend time on mastering each lesson every week. A great thing about this learn-how-to-program project, called #codeyear in Twitter (#libcodeyear and #catcode in the library-land) is that there are +375,443 people (and counting up) out there who are doing exactly the same lessons as you are.

The greatest thing about this #libcodeyear / #catcode project is that librarians have organized themselves around this project for the collective learning experience. Now, if you are ready to dive in, here are some useful resources. Resources for Collective Learning. Mobile. With Podio you'll send less emails and use less spreadsheets.

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Work is social and structured, enabling your team to do more together. You communicate by sharing status messages, files and links in your team's activity stream - there's no cc-mayhem or missing attachments here. Your workflows are managed with Podio Apps, flexible structures that you control - replacing the need for separate web-tools and spreadsheets. Everything is connected, online and mobile. Powerful integrations also make it easy to add Google Docs and content from Dropbox, ShareFile and more to your workflows on Podio. "The implementation of Podio has completely revolutionized the way we work. " 12 Stars Media is a video production company based in Indianapolis, USA. Smartsite: la inteligencia en la presencia online de tu negocio. Using PhoneGap in Eclipse to develop applications for Android or other mobile platforms. If you have been hearing a lot about this new kid on the mobile development block - PhoneGap ( and are as confused as I was when I started diving deeper, you've come to the right place to sort out your understanding a bit. 1)What is phonegap?

Using PhoneGap in Eclipse to develop applications for Android or other mobile platforms

According to the website, "PhoneGap is an open source solution for building cross-platform mobile apps with modern, standards-based Web technologies. Based on HTML5, PhoneGap leverages web technologies developers already know best... HTML and JavaScript. " The definition itself does not make things very clear though. 1) How can you query the platform's contact book from within your web application which is being written in javascript(or Dojo) and has no knowledge of the platform's APIs. 2) How can you do so in a platform agnostic way, so that your web app works not just on Android but also on iPhone, notwithstanding the different ways of using the contacts book in both. Phonegap aspires to be the answer to both of the above questions.

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