Facing new challenges everyday

I have been trying to find a reason to study c programming for a long time, now I found a reason to do it, I wrote a very small application that uses APR and GTK+ where I can manager costumers and suppliers contact info.

Before start coding you must pay attention to the following requirements:

• Apache APR
• GTK+
• pkg-config

All the requirements above can be easily installed in your system by using the linux distribution package management system, you can also visit their respective sites to download the sources, compile them and install the binaries. The Apache APR sources can be found at apr.apache.org and GTK+ sources at gtk.org
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Cocoa Touch is an awesome API, it contains a large set o frameworks that can be used to create fantastic applications for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, but if we compare Cocoa Touch with Cocoa API for MacOSX we won’t find some cool features like masking on input controls.
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Yesteday I finished the port of Java XMLBuilder to .NET, now you can use any .NET language to easily create xml documents, .NET XMLBuilder is written in Delphi Prism and released under Apache 2.0 license. The current release of XMLBuilder can be download here.

XMLBuilder is very easy to use, it contains a kind of DSL, a basic example can be checked below:
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Go is a new language coming from Google, it isn’t fully object oriented as Java, or completely dynamic typed as Python, Go is in the middle of both worlds, it aims to be clean, fast to compile, safe and fun.

I wrote a small program where I can call the google translator service on the web to translate a text, and to be honest, its a very simple task, I wrote this tool in less than 5 hours without any previous experience with Go.

The entire program code can be checked below:

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One of the features that I always pay attention in a framework is how we can control what can be rendered in a view and what not, many frameworks uses a scriplet language, some others uses a kind of template system for this purpose and a few give to the user a object oriented way to do it.

In this article I’ll show an example of how we can take the control of view rendering on lift framework with the help of snippets. With snippets you will be able to perform any server side interaction that you need, you can call a snippet by placing a tag on view code, this tag has a naming convention required to call the snippet properly, a snippet always emmit markup back to the user.
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