15 Dec

iPhone and AR development with CS5

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I wanted to get into iPhone development but it was a little hard to even get the environment needed to develop. The biggest issue was the need to develop on a Mac….well in Q1 of 2010..you will be able to develop iPhone apps with flash cs5…recompile the same code and use the resulting swf for the mobile Droid OS..for Blackberry, etc…That is pretty awesome…Check out a tutorial at IPhone App..

You can also build augmented reality apps..This stuff is really cool…again same site for the tutorial AR App

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9 Nov

Basics of web development

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Some people have asked about the basics of web development. I put together a quick overview. It is not the prettiest or the most complete. It is just a quick overview. I will try to work on it as time permits.

http://juanmchavez.com/WebDevelopment.php

Nevertheless, it gives you the basic idea. Some quick links on how to get started

1) Hosting:
This broken down into 2 types. Microsoft and Linux. They support different programming languages.

Microsoft:

  1. ASP  – VB Classic and C# – .Net
  2. PHP
  3. MSQL
  4. MYSQL

Linux

  1. PHP
  2. Ruby On Rails
  3. Java
  4. Python
  5. ColdFusion
  6. Perl
  7. MySQL

GoDaddy.com offers hosting for as little as $7/month..That is about $84/year. When you buy hosting you can buy a domain for $1.99/yr

It is a great way to have a platform to learn and try new languages. You just need notepad to code. Godaddy provides an FTP to upload your code.You can also get free IDE such as Eclipse and Netbeans.

http://netbeans.org/

http://www.eclipse.org/

or you can buy cheap IDE software on Ebay or http://oem-share.com/

I have purchased from both and had great results

To try PHP development…go to http://www.wampserver.com/…you can get Apache, PHP and MySQL for free..

What about open source projects to work on??? These are projects where you can start from an existing project.

sourceforge.com – mostly java and php prjects

http://www.codeplex.com/ – .net open source projects.

Try your coding skills at topcoder.com

According to the IEEE computer society the top 3 programming lanagues in demand are

  1. Java
  2. C#
  3. PHP

I know this lacks a little in details…please feel free o ask for more details about any particular topic.