There are cases, when the functionality provided with the application is just not enough. Or maybe it is enough, but some people want to use it a bit different – either adapt it to their own needs or implement something that would add value to existing features. I actually encountered the extensibility problem in one [...]
Facebook has a very useful API, that can give the developer access to pretty much anything Facebook-related when it comes to user profiles. The documentation provided comes in handy and it shows how to use the API from a web developer’s perspective – mostly giving examples in PHP. What if the developer wants to work [...]
Snippet Manager is an application built by Danny Battison. Its main purpose is to help developers organize their code snippets in the cloud (those aren’t stored locally). One of the interesting features of the application is that it offers an interface for plug-ins, although with a specific code structure. Here is a sample plug-in developed [...]
If you used Twitter, you should know that there is a service called TwitPic, that allows Twitter users to share pictures. It is simple and easily accessible. Being integrated in the majority of Twitter clients, it gained quite a lot of popularity. It offers a public API that lets the developers upload images right from [...]
Using stored procedures instead of writing SQL queries manually is a good thing to do in pretty much every application that involves SQL databases. In C#, to execute a stored procedure, a developer needs to initialize an instance of SqlConnection, set the connection string, create an instance of SqlCommand, add the parameters, set the type [...]
