Category Archives: Development

Everything related to coding or other forms of digital creativity

Tools I should use more often

I often come across useful little tools where I think, I should try them later. But this “later” never happens… This should become a place where I collect these tools with reasons why I should really try them. Cool tools I already use

JSON Mime-Types

For JSON data, there are different mime-types floating around the web: At ruby-forum.com there is a nice discussion which points out, why it is best to use text/x-json. The already wide-spread application/json is not really correct as application is meant for data which can only be read after being processed. But as JSON is clear-text,… Read More »

Compile wx.NET

Homepage: http://wxnet.sf.net/ wx.NET is a wxWidgets-wrapper for Mono. The compilation is not really straight-forward as one is used to.

Develop iOS Apps

real Apps Pseudo-Apps Pseudo-Apps is what I call the apps which are actually a bunch of HTML pages with JavaScript and some JavaScript-API for accessing the iPhone internal features. These open in a WebKit-control so that they are basically some spiced up websites. Web-Apps

PEAR Channels

Some channels for PEAR. Use this to add them: Unsupported protocol If you get the following error message, you have to refresh the channels pear.php.net and pecl.php.net: The easiest solution was found in the last post of a thread in the PEAR Forum:

Firebug

Firebug is a useful Firefox extension to debug JavaScript and more. To not raise error messages on browsers without Firebug, there’s a small script called firebugx.js, which creates emptyfunctions. Sascha Hameister has optimized this script a little bit and it now looks like this: You might also want to use Firebug Lite.

Mono + WinForms

Installation manual: mono-project.comForum: UbuntuForums.org The System.Windows.Forms.dll is contained in the mono-winforms2.0-cil package. The file resides in /usr/lib/mono/2.0/. To make it show up in MonoDevelop, you might have to create a file /usr/lib/pkgconfig/windows-forms.pc with the following contents: Afterwards you can add this as a Reference to your project in MonoDevelop.