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An introduction to mobile development

To understand the mobile development scene, we must first know who are the present industry leaders and who are the new contenders for 2013/14. In Q4 2012, the most used mobile operating systems were Android (with the 68.4% of market share) and iOS (with the 19.4% of market share). Both together grabbed the 92% of the global Smartphone shipments. These results make Java (Android) Read more

If content is king, data is queen

Open data has become a very serious topic. Governments and corporations invest a lot of effort in1 developing software to capture, process, store and distribute data (data.gov.uk, data.gov, Google API,Twitter API, Flickr API, Facebook API etc.), which is then offered back to the community. Although the neutrality of the Internet is being questioned and threatened by lobbies and governments across the world, Read more

HTC One X (Price and availability)

Las minute: Available next April 5th 2012 at Clove for 492 pounds / 590€ At Three, O2, Orange and Vodafone (promo in homepage) they will probably offer a 24 monhts plan. You can signup to receive updates... My personal opinion In the last few weeks, I've been studying Android phones with two cores like the Samsung Galaxy Note Read more

Display the date as ‘time ago’ in WordPress

It is sometimes be helpful to display the date as Twitter does, using a count of the days, weeks, months or years since the publication of the post. (Example: "written 25 days ago" or "written over 4 hours" or "written more than 1 month" ...) Perhaps we can use this format to display the date the Read more

How to improve the default WordPress calendar

The calendar that comes by default with Wordpress is pretty good but in order to extend its functionality to be compatible with "custom post types" and to alter some of the calendar items, you must include the following code in the functions. php visual of our subject: /* ucc_get_calendar() :: Extends get_calendar() by including custom post Read more

How to change the search permalink in WordPress

Normally Wordpress searches generate a URL like this: http://dominio.tld/?s=palabra. With this code, your searches will be the type http://dominio.tld/search/palabra+palabra. You can change the word "search" by any other route, such as "blog / search". You just have to add the following code in the functions.php of your theme visual. function nice_search_redirect() { if ( is_search() && strpos( $_SERVER, Read more