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Updating Lookup Fields From PHP – Force.com Toolkit for PHP

1-4-13

Utilizing a Force.com backend for your data can prove to be a very challenging project. Perhaps you are trying to minimize development costs, or you are trying to utilize the Force.com backend that you already have. Either way, you’ve got a website front end built in PHP and you want it to be able to [...]

Passing Data from one View Controller to Another through Segues. Xcode fundamentals.

12-21-12

Every application uses data in one ay or another. When you are writing an iOS native application there are two ways to transfer data that I find most straightforward and easy to use. One is passing data from one View Controller to another by utilizing the “prepareForSegue” method. This technique is good when you need [...]

Sencha Touch 2 – Dynamically Loading the Store of a List and Asking the Server for Data by Parameter

11-13-12

This example shows how to dynamically create and load a Store in order to query data by a parameter. We are going to define our View which will contain two components – a list and a button to trigger the store load. The view will be handled by a Controller The View: The Controller: The [...]

Building an iPhone/iPad/Android compatible HTML5 video player – Part 2: Support for Multiple Videos

8-25-11

In part one, I showed you how to build a simple HTML5 video player. In part two, I will show you a way to create a simple video player that can display multiple videos. Step 1: Processing the video covers and thumbnails First things first, let’s process everything we will need for our player. Go [...]

CSV / XLS Exporting in Adobe Coldfusion 9

8-19-11

Let’s talk about XLS Exporting in Adobe Coldfusion 9 (Excel Spreadsheets). ColdFusion has this neat little tag called cfspreadsheet. It allows the writing of, updating of, and reading of CSV/XLS files in ColdFusion. This is a handy tool for exporting dynamically generated queries. It can make XLS Exporting in Adobe Coldfusion 9 very simple and [...]