App

Apache Pivot is a modern framework to create rich clients as desktop applications or to run in a web browser. It offers nice GUI elements, supports XML/WTKX templates, data bindings, JVM scripting languages and much more. In the following short examples I’m going to create a desktop application to open a file browser, select a file and output the selected file’s name, first using a programmatic approach to create the user interface, and afterwards using XML/WTKX templates. ...

I’ve released a new plugin for the popular Confluence Wiki that extends the user profile with new tab that displays the user’s vcard as a QR code. This allows an easy import of address data from Confluence to your smartphone. Features Display of a Confluence user’s contact data as a QR code in a separate tab in the user profile More to be implemented .. Installation Just download the plugin from Atlassian’s Plugin Exchange and install it using the Universal Plugin Manager in your Confluence’s administration area That’s all .. nothing to configure here .. ...

Today we’re going to take a look at Google’s App Inventor feature that offers programming-novices a nice possibility to enter the fabulous world of Android App programming without deeper knowledge of the API or complex SDK installations. So lets build some stuff .. Prerequisites Java 6 JDK App Inventors Extras Software A Google App Inventor Beta Account – request one here What we are going to build We are building a simple GUI with a Textbox and a button A click on the button starts an event that queries the acceleration sensor for coordinates If the sensor is active and enabled then the coordinates are displayed in the text box ...