Following his recent victory in Florida, Mitt Romney has reason to be optimistic about guessing the mood of nearly 18 million people in the Sunshine State. In reality, this is a pale shadow (roughly 6% of the country) compared to the impression he needs to leave to win the Republican nomination in August. However, Romney might have another trick up his blue Oxford shirt: to encourage mobile users to donate via the Square iOS app. Read the rest of this entry »
The 2012 US Presidential Election: Time to Crunch the Numbers with Mobile Payment App
Posted by nicole.barbosa on February 8th, 2012
Debugging PHP with Eclipse and XDebug
Posted by Dan Martin on February 7th, 2012When I returned to PHP development after a couple of years working with .NET, one of the things I found most frustrating was losing the excellent debugger incorporated into Visual Studio. From having breakpoints, watches and interactive consoles, I was reduced back to print statements and log files. That wasn’t fun, so I set out to find a better way.
Fortunately, as is almost always the case with these things, clever people have worked hard to come up with better ways and all I had to do was use what they’ve created. I used three tools to achieve something approaching the debugging power of Visual Studio: Read the rest of this entry »
Connecting Your Social Media with ifttt.com
Posted by chrismarsh on February 6th, 2012
I love getting involved with new social networks, and seeing how they interact and inform each other. Most social networks now include tools to link up with your Facebook or Twitter account, and cross-publish your activity. However, it’s not always that straightforward.
For example, if I’m on the train reading my Twitter stream, and I see an interesting link, I’ll often favourite the tweet to read later. My phone isn’t the ideal device to read an article and poor reception can mean it takes ages to load. Read the rest of this entry »
Converting Mobile Searchers – Back to Basics
Posted by S Baker on February 3rd, 2012Over the Christmas period, my home laptop finally gave up the ghost. In fairness, it’s been a shocker since my old one was replaced due to a dodgy cooling fan.
There is a point to my waffle. I have been forced to use my iPhone more and more for searching online. I wouldn’t say I’m a late adopter, just that I haven’t ever been that impressed by brands’ mobile sites when I have used them. So when looking for a large toy storage box the other day, I expected to visit the usual suspects for this: Argos, Mothercare, Ikea and Toys R Us. Read the rest of this entry »
Making Money Through Mobile Gaming – Is It Targeting Gamers, or Casuals?
Posted by Matt Gardner on February 2nd, 2012I’ve just got myself an iPhone 4S, following weeks of waiting. The whole debate of Apple vs its rivals aside, it’s an excellent phone that truly demonstrates the inclusion of the chip – also used on the iPad – that powers it all. Despite running dozens of apps at once if you want it to, it still manages to run games faster than anything I’ve ever seen on the mobile platform. Whether free or paid for, it’s a big business. Read the rest of this entry »
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