A few days ago we came across two really helpful tools for web development. It is very important that a website loads fast, so it is obvious that you should compress all your images to a minimum of its size.
A lot of people (we too) just saved the pictures via Photoshop and “Save for Web”. But unfortunately this compression is not very good. You can save up to further 40-70% of the size.
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Windows Phone 7 provides three different opportunities for data storage. The persistent storage on the phone is managed by the IsolatedStorageSettings-Class.
This storage, which is a simple Dictionary, is the perfect way to save different individual user settings. Those settings are saved permanently, independent of whether the app is running or not. Read more…
Most mobile applications need access to the internet to get data from a webservice. The WP7 PowerHour App receives its data from the PowerHour webservice and hence needs to check whether there is internet connection available. Checking the availability of an internet connection on Windows Phone 7 is quite easy, you can just realize that with a few lines of code: Read more…
As we plan to provide our services for more countries, we need to translate our website in several languages. The Zend Framework already includes several adapters for translation like e.g. Array, Csv, Gettext, etc. As we already had a basic knowledge about the gettext version, and it is also used by wordpress, we decided to use this type:
To translate the page with gettext it is necessary to install Poedit (Download here: http://www.poedit.net/download.php)
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You changed the values for your Open Graph tags on your website but Facebook still shows an old (obviously cached) version of your shared or liked page?
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As I explained already in this blog entry, we came across a problem as we wanted to use a Google Map on our mobile website. Read more…
As we developed our mobile WebApp we came across some minor problems. One of them was that we need a Google Map in one of our pages. But all pages are loaded via AJAX. So the Google Map did not load, we had to refresh it, with custom data which was provided via PHP. Read more…
The official TinyMCE website offers a documentation/tutorial to develop a plugin for the popular WYSIWYG Editor. Unfortunately the tutorial is quite poor and we’d love to have a template instead of a step-by-step tutorial. Read more…
In our new mobile WebApp for our website www.powerhour.at which we realized with the popular jQuery Mobile Framework, we included some cool stuff. One of them is the possibility to scroll through the result entries with an easy swipe to left on the mobile phone. Read more…
Making a phone call with your Windows Phone 7 App
Calling a phone number from your App is really easy. You just need a text field (in our case: txtTelephone) with the value of the number you want to call. Read more…