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Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 is HERE!

On April 1, 2012, in Geek Tips, Windows Phone, by aaroncajes
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Today, i have downloaded and installed Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1, so what’s new? Well, here are the list of improvements included in the said SDK…

  • The Visual Studio IDE is patched to enable selection from a list of emulators, and launching it (note that the WPSDK can only support connecting to one at a time, though)
  • The Windows Phone [512 MB device] emulator image is updated to use build 8773
  • A second, new emulator device image is included, allowing you to emulate running your app on a 256 MB device
  • The Microsoft Advertising SDK is updated to the latest version (previously only available as a separate install), which fixes some issues devs were encountering at runtime
  • IntelliSense now supports specifying the 512 MB device requirement in your manifest file, should you choose to opt your app out from running on the new 256 MB devices
  • Language support is again consistent both in the IDE (the 7.1.1 Update supports all 10 of the WPSDK 7.1 languages) and in the emulator OS (Malay and Indonesian have been added)

 

So as you see, there are lots of great improvements from 64-bit Windows Phone emulator to the most up-to-date Assemblies for Windows Phone. Some of the updates are available to use on selected WP countries, but for those countries who AREN’T supported YET, you may still develop apps and submit it through Yalla Apps or any other Microsoft’s Global Publisher Program partners.

The Microsoft Windows Phone developer blog posted a neat set of instruction and guidelines to follow, you may want to read it here. Most of the instructions and updates are listed there, so i encourage you to read all of it, step by step and don’t just dive in, to get the most out of Windows Phone App development.

Enjoy developing Windows Phone 7 apps! :D

You might find these links useful:

Optimizing Apps for Lower Cost Devices

Best practice tips for delivering apps to Windows Phone with 256 MB

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Meet my first Windows Phone 7 App

On March 31, 2012, in Personal Stuff, Windows Phone, by aaroncajes
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Recently, i saw that my app has been published to the Windows Phone Marketplace, if you’re asking what my app is, the name of my app is My Holy Rosary, a simple rosary app made with love. It was an awesome thing because i really worked hard finding bugs and tried to follow every single rule in order for this app to be approved and it did!

This app took 41 days upon sending, i really do not know why it took 41 days to be approved but i have no problems with that.. Anyway..

The day my app has been approved, you’ll see that it gains an instant positive rating from Darkclaw 618

Very well done and the app knows what the current day is

It’s really heart warming everytime you see someone liked your app, and i’m really working hard to make my future apps friendly and designed with love. :)

I’m a new comer when it comes to building mobile apps, so this one is yet rewarding.. I recently wrote 2 new apps and already been sent to microsoft for approval. Let’s see how long it will take for my 2 new apps to be approved. Looking forward to it!

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Encrypt Webgeek with Firefox and HTTPS Everywhere (Windows)

On March 23, 2012, in Geek Tips, Security, by aaroncajes
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For some reason, webgeek isn’t automatically encrypted when you first visit the site. Automatic SSL encryption will be fixed soon but there are no ETA as of this moment. But for those security geeks like me this is a big issue that needs to be fixed. Not into security and other technical stuff?  Still you might want to surf on an encrypted protocol as this protects you from being eavesdropped. (Translation? Your information may be viewed by others if your communication line isn’t encrypted)

So, let’s begin.. First you need the following:

  1. An UP-TO-DATE Firefox Browser
  2. HTTPS Everywhere Firefox Plug-In

Step 1. Open your firefox browser

Step 2. Download and install HTTPS Everywhere plug-in

Step 3. Restart Firefox.

Step 4. (Window Icon) + R, this will launch the RUN program. Try %APPDATA% and press enter

Step 5. Go to Mozilla (Folder) / Firefox (Folder) / Profiles (folder)

Step 6. Find the folder name with random letters and numbers with “.default” at the end of the name, try to locate the HTTPSEverywhereUserRules (folder)

Step 7. Create a XML file and name it “WebGeek.XML” and paste this code below:

<ruleset name=”WebGeek”>
<target host=”www.webgeek.ph” />
<target host=”webgeek.ph” />
<rule from=”^http://(www\.)?webgeek\.ph/” to=”https://webgeek.ph/”/>
</ruleset>

Remember: Ruleset name must match the exact name of the .XML file. If not, this code will not work.

Hot tip: You can reuse the code and change some URL values to encrypt your fave website. This will work if the said site supports HTTPS(SSL) encryption.

Step 8. Restart firefox. Visit webgeek.ph without the “HTTPS” first and see if it works.

Done! Do you have any questions regards to this tutorial? Comments? Suggestions? Please leave a comment below. :)

I hope this simple tutorial is relevant to your needs. You may want to follow me on twitter @aaroncajes.

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Filtering symbols inputs with PHP using ctype_alnum

On March 13, 2012, in PHP, by aaroncajes
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Recently, i was building a script that would filter out “unwanted” symbols on text inputs and i saw an awesome function that would filter out unwanted symbols and only retain alpha numeric characters…

Meanwhile, google magically displayed this function on the search results:

cytype_alnum. (See link http://php.net/manual/en/function.ctype-alnum.php)

With this function, it helped me filter out important inputs without rethinking the “wheel”, in a developers term: It saves me from modifying my own RegExp rule that could be filtered out with the one’s php built right into the core.

I hope this helps you! Happy coding! :)

 

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PHP 5.4 Released!

On March 2, 2012, in PHP, by aaroncajes
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The PHP development team has successfully pushed the next generation forward, featuring 3 awesome updates:

  1. Traits - Traits is a mechanism for code reuse in single inheritance languages such as PHP.
  2. A Shortened Array Syntax
  3. ..And a built-in Web Server.

And over 100 bug fixes shipped on this version. To see more changes, take a time to view the Change Logs.

At the time of writing, there are no available Windows Binaries Installer available for download. This may take a day or two, but i’ll keep you posted once it has been pushed out in the public.

 

Follow me on twitter @aaroncajes to get the latest tech news and geek stuff.

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Hello… Again.

On March 1, 2012, in Personal Stuff, by aaroncajes
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Hello everyone.

Ever since my blog has been restored (Due to the recent server hack) all of my previous post has been trashed. Though, i was busy helping my groupmates with our thesis, i decided to set aside blogging for a while.

In the last few months, i’ve been engaged learning and developing apps for Windows Phone 7 and early Objective C development. It’s really cool and i would blog some of them in the future.

I guess this post ends here. ‘Till the next post! I miss blogging! :)

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