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My Goals 2012 - NI Developer - A software developers blog from Belfast, Northern Ireland

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What is this article about? A lot of people have been setting their goals for the next year and I know this is a bit late but I have decided to set my goals for the next year. Firstly - Build a Windows Phone 7 App and have it in the Marketplace. I would like to build a Mango app that uses all of the latest features including live tiles, toast notifications and location awareness. Edit - Achieved 22/02/2012 - Link. Second - Build and Android app and have it in the market. Fourth - Use the Play!

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Play Framework 1.2.x tips and tricks - NI Developer - A software developers blog from Belfast, Northern Ireland

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Play Framework 1.2.x tips and tricks. Passing variables to the controller while Routing. In the routes do? It specifies that the previous character is optional. Specifying variables in the URL. Then in the method signature you simply add them as parameters. Render a template different to the default for that method. RenderTemplate("path/to/template/page name.html");. Same concept as @Before only it runs after any method that is called in the controller but before any output is rendered to the browser.

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Responsive Web Design - NI Developer - A software developers blog from Belfast, Northern Ireland

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What is responsive design? Responsive web design is about creating a site that adapts to the users screen resolution rather than designing for a fixed desktop width and then creating a mobile site to handle smaller screen sizes. It looks something like below:. Responsive design image from Mashable.com. Why should I make my site responsive? How do I make a site responsive? Frameworks exist such as Twitter Bootstrap. Wrote a great article on using media queries. Are there any disadvantages? The one disadva...

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Writing a Windows Phone 7 App - NI Developer - A software developers blog from Belfast, Northern Ireland

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Writing a Windows Phone 7 App. I launched the NI Developer windows phone 7 app into the marketplace this week found here. The code is opensource and so you can find it here. If you want to have a look, or even fork and improve it! The IDE - Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. The Development Language - Silverlight. Decoding a JSON Response. I know I just talked about the language but I loved the way I was able to set up my models in a way where I set up DataContracts and DataMembers, this meant that I was able ...

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This is a blog set up so I can post all of the things that I have been developing to help other people in the community. It will eventually contain tutorials for most languages I know. Please check back soon to see if I have some new posts up. Software Development By VS-Software. Site Designed By : Matthew Coulter.

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Decoding JSON in Windows Phone 7 - NI Developer - A software developers blog from Belfast, Northern Ireland

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Decoding JSON in Windows Phone 7. What is this article about? This is a knowledge sharing article on how to decode JSON to populate your models in WP7. We need to start by doing a small amount of preparation in our models:. Note the Using System.Runtime.Serialization, the [DataContract] and the [DataMember] additions to the model. This tells the serializer / deserializer what to include or ignore. Now Write the deserialize code. In the file where you want to do the deserialization use the following code :.

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NI Developer - A software developers blog from Belfast, Northern Ireland

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I am a software developer who graduated from Queens University Belfast with an Meng Computer Science degree. I have been programming now for about 6 years and worked as an Assistant Software Developer in Liberty I.T. for 14 months. I have now returned to Liberty I.T. as a Software Engineer focusing on User Experience and have been working there from 27th June 2011. I like to do projects in my spare time so who knows I might stumble upon something interesting someday. Codeigniter, Wordpress, Play.

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C / C (1). What is responsive design? Responsive web design is about creating a site that adapts to the users screen resolution rather than designing for a fixed desktop width and then creating a mobile site to handle smaller screen sizes. It looks something like below:. Responsive design image from Mashable.com. Why should I make my site responsive? How do I make a site responsive? Frameworks exist such as Twitter Bootstrap. Wrote a great article on using media queries. Are there any disadvantages?