Monthly Archives: July 2007

Daylight Standard Time Fiasco with Java

By TechKnow | July 25, 2007

One of the hardest things to get right in Java is to figure out which class to use when working with time and dates. You have a recipe for disaster when you mix Java dates with timezone information with energy policy and a tight schedule. The U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005 changed [...]

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iPhone Dev Camp

By TechKnow | July 9, 2007

iPhone Development
The iPhone Dev Camp started on Saturday by a nice presentation by Chritopher Allen, a MacHack veteran, regarding what is known about the iPhone from a web developer’s perspective. What is known is that the iPhone uses web standards (HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PDF and Quicktime). Web 2.0 best practices apply for [...]

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Top 15 iPhone Web Development Resources

By TechKnow | July 6, 2007

Here is a list of links to the best available iPhone development resources such as simulators, development plugins, wikis, and other JavaScript/HTML/Safari documentation.

iPhoney – A free iPhone web simulator for designers.
iPhone Interface in JavaScript – A JavaScript based iPhone simulator.
iPhone Simulator – Yet another JavaScript-based iPhone simulator.
Morfik Builds First iPhone Development Tool – Development tool [...]

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Google Maps Builder

By TechKnow | July 3, 2007

I have a really good friend that runs a small travel related blog and she wanted to add Google Maps to her site to go along with her articles, such as this post on LA restaurants. But she is a not a developer and would never ever want to tinker with the necessary JavaScript [...]

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