http://www.bdcsoftware.com Experience Matters Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:13:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over the development of a few applications with pys60 I have standardized on an app skeleton that simplifies and speeds-up the initial process of getting something going. The basic idea is to have an application shell up and running on various environments without needing a lot of configuration changes as ... http://www.bdcsoftware.com/pys60-app-skeleton/ Necessity is the mother of all invention. Google Voice is great service but without a native app for Nokia phones placing a call through the Google Voice number was a major hassle. In addition, I needed a proof of concept app for developing and deploying an app with the 1.9.x ... http://www.bdcsoftware.com/googlevoice-for-s60/ Business Development Center 2.5 is an easy to use CRM software package automotive dealerships. Based on proven processes for sales and service, it provides all the necessary tools needed to effectively run a CRM/BDC department at your dealership. The software was designed with one goal in mind: make it easy ... http://www.bdcsoftware.com/business-development-center-2-5/ As I said in the previous part, the N97 sound playback is very good. There is no distortion, no hissing or cracking during playback. Even when you use the equalizer there is no audible distortion as long as you stay within sane limits. Most of the time I transfer songs to ... http://www.bdcsoftware.com/n97-music-library/ Let me state upfront that this is not a typical phone review. Rather it’s the first part of series of articles written from a developers “point of view”. I will try to go over how it is to develop on this phone, the experiences while using it and of course ... http://www.bdcsoftware.com/nokia-n97-from-developers-perspective/ Recently I have installed and started experimenting with N97SDK 0.5. One of the first things I noticed that the emulator window is huge(due to the 360 x 640 phone resolution) and will be partially off-screen on mylaptop with its low resolution of 1280x800. Creating the actual skin configuration file and the ... http://www.bdcsoftware.com/n97-small-emulator-skin/ Since RMagick seems to be broken on Win32 when using with Ruby 1.8.4 and Gruff is using RMagick to draw its pretty graphs, I had to go out and find an alternative chart library for use with Rails. XML/SWF Charts Fortunately I have run into this chart library a while back when ... http://www.bdcsoftware.com/xmlswf-charts-in-ruby-on-rails/ I am so used to coding help (intellisense) from Visual Studio, that not having an IDE with this type of functionality is a major inconvenience when working with the Ruby on Rails framework. There are editors that offer syntax highlighting and project management options, but all of them lack the ... http://www.bdcsoftware.com/dreamweaver-8-and-ruby-on-rails-codehints/ It’s unbelievable, but the Interbase with VB article has been written over five years ago. Over the years the article has received hundreds of thousands of hits and I hope we have left a mark with the developer community. This little write-up is intended as a follow-up or more like ... http://www.bdcsoftware.com/five-years-with-firebird/ Has anybody ever wondered if there is an Open Source alternative to SQL Server or Access databases? Well, I have, and I found Interbase. Interbase is a Client/Server database from Borland. It is Open Source. It runs on Windows, Linux and bunch of other *nix platforms. It has a very ... http://www.bdcsoftware.com/interbase-and-ado-tutorial/