February 23rd, 2010
Philippe ported Vici CoolStorage to MonoTouch over the weekend. This makes Vici CoolStorage available for iPhone development using the MonoTouch framework.
Due to the lack of reflection on MonoTouch class declarations are not abstract. Classes have to be declared as concrete classes with getters and setters.
SQLite is the only supported relational database on iPhone, so Vici CoolStorage for MonoTouch only supports SQLite.
The port is still in beta, but is more or less functional. Input from beta testers is highly appreciated!
Check out the beta at the Vici CoolStorage webpage.
Tags: MonoTouch, ORM, SQLite, Vici CoolStorage, Vici Project
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February 22nd, 2010
I don’t know exactly how I found out about Kiva.org, but once I visited their website I just had to become a member.
Kiva.org is an online platform that helps microfinancing organisations around the world get in touch with (potential) lenders. Lenders select the projects they want to support after reading through the information page and can start helping by lending as low as $25.00 and as high as their budget tells them.
The only fact that made me hesitate starting to lend money was the high interest rates. It didn’t seem fair that the loaners had to pay 20+ % interest, but after some searching and reading I got convinced this isn’t an argument not to start helping out.
If you’re interested you can visit my lender page on Kiva.org to follow the loans I’m currently participating in.
Tags: Kiva, micro loans, microfinancing, social loans
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February 18th, 2010
While planning our trip to Moscow (by car) later this year, I came across a virtual trip from Moscow to Vladivostok with the help of Google Maps and YouTube.
The virtual trip consists of a video stream showing the view from a train while you can see the position on Google Maps. To make things more interesting, you can listen to the rumble of the train wheels, a Russian radio station, some balalaika music or one of the three Russian books.
It’s a joint project of Google and the Russian railways to promote the Trans Siberian Railway.
Well… we are planning to make the Trans Siberian journey in 2011, so this gives us a little taste of what we can expect.
You can enjoy the trip yourself at this page.
Tags: Google, Moscow, Russia, Trans Siberian Express, Vladivostok
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January 29th, 2010
Yes, indeed… LXIT has a logo. And a business card design. The concept has lead to some discussions between colleagues and friends, but no one made me a counter proposal so I went with my original idea.
Some patient designer at Design Outpost realized my idea after weeks of revisions and pixel tweaking. I’m happy with the final result, but as all things: it could be different, it could be better, it could be…
Some quotes from the project description as presented to the designers:
The idea behind the way I want to profile my company is as follows. It’s a company serving IT solutions (mainly web programming).Everyone associates IT guys with being (pussy) nerd. I would like to profile my company as being tough-ish, but still a bit nerdy.The tagline will be “When IT gets tough”. That way I want to express that I’m not only doing the easy stuff, but we handle tougher problems too.
That all said, the concept: If you think about who/what is tough, you might end up with a Viking.
So, I would like to have the head of a tough Viking wearing nerdy glasses as a company logo.
And some more:
What attributes would you like your logo to reflect about your business?
- Bit nerdy/geeky, but strong, tough and decisive
What is the overall message you are trying to convey to your target audience?
- We tackle all you IT problems
Now I need to create a new company website, but because the logo took about a year to accomplish and clients projects get priority, this might take some months… Hopefully I find a designer willing to create a design for me (a small hint to b-visual).
Feel free to grab a digital version of my business card.
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November 18th, 2009
We all love Stack Overflow, so when Joel Spolsky told the world that the platform would be made publicity available we move the Vici Project support to StackExchange.
All questions regarding Vici MVC, Vici CoolStorage, Vici Parser, Vici WinService and all other future Vici projects can be viewed and answered on http://vici.stackexchange.com.
The old http://support.viciproject.com URL will redirect you to the new support location.
Tags: .NET, ASP.NET, C#, support, Vici Project
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November 13th, 2009
Surf to XML-Sitemaps.com, fill out your web site’s URL and let it generate your sitemap automatically.
Tags: Google, sitemap, xml
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November 12th, 2009
GameSeat.be gives everyone the opportunity to enjoy virtual rides with his/her dream cars. You can rent a steering wheel, a racing seat, a monitor, … or everything as a whole for one day or more.
Ideally for the car enthousiast or console racer who normally doesn’t have the place to store such racing seat and occasionally wants to enjoy the ride of his life in his living room. Top: check out rFactor!
The website is built using Vici MVC, a open-source lightweight and powerful ASP.NET MVC framework (part of the Vici Project).
Tags: cars, game seat, gaming seat, race seat, race simulator, rFactor
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August 18th, 2009
Sometimes you need a PNG/JPG/TIFF version of a SVG file.
While there are lots of possible applications, this online tool will fit your needs most of the time: SVG to raster image conversion.
Tags: conversion, JPG, PNG, SVG, TIFF
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June 21st, 2009
Just a list of books regarding iPhone development. It’s just for personal use. Please leave a comment with your experiences of a book (what do you like/dislike about one of the books) or when a book seems to be missing from the list.
Addison-Wesley Professional
Apress
Manning Publications Co.
O’Reilly
Wrox
Currently I’m reading “iPhone in Action” (Manning) and I’ve had a look into “Beginning iPhone Develoment” (Apress) in the bookstore. “iPhone in Action” doesn’t seem to be a hands-on book like “Beginning iPhone Development”. I’m considering buying the PDF version of the latter, so I can switch between books/style while getting my hands dirty.
I’m looking out for the upcoming Apress books (“iPhone Games Projects” and “More iPhone 3 Development“) as they seems to cover my areas of interest.
Of course I’ve still a lot to read of the Apple documentation at the iPhone Dev Center.
Holidays are coming up. Lots of time to read or lots of time to spend outside? We’ll see what Belgian weather brings…
PS: I’ll update this post with more info, e.g. Objective-C development books. This is just a small wrap-up of some Googling about iPhone development books.
Tags: Apple, iPhone, Object-C
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