Archive for the 'Programming' Category

Integrate SMS in your web application using TextMarks, Part 2

This article will explain more specifically how you can interact with TextMarks, including using your own web application to send and receive text messages.

Android Introduction and First Impressions

Android is a recently-announced, open source mobile-phone operating system and development platform from Google. The Android software stack could be installed on any number of handsets, from various cell providers around the world. I’ll take a first look at Android, with an Eclipse project and an Android plug-in, to create and debug a simple Hello World application.

Amazon Web Services Minneapolis presentation

Mike Culver, evangelist for Amazon Web Services (AWS), visited the University of Minnesota Wednesday September 5th, to describe services Amazon has made available to programmers looking to leverage large data sets and world-class infrastructure.

RSS feeds from scratch

RSS is a form of content syndication, excellent for tracking a large number of sites or for simple notifications.

With the surging popularity of “blogging” tools, such as WordPress and Movable Type, many users underestimate (and take for granted) the inclusion of RSS capabilities.

This article will show you how to create your own RSS feed, from scratch - to track any type of data or information.

There are many different types of syndication formats available, but this article will only focus on RSS 2.0.

A quick overview