73 percent of all mobile devices run on Android, but iOS applications are more profitable. The App Store brings publishers more money than all the Android markets put together. So it makes no sense to write for Android? Not at all. The main thing is to understand what you do and for whom. The target […]
How to choose a template for a site on WordPress
WordPress is today one of the leading CMS. It is open source software and can therefore be used absolutely free of charge. It is a huge advantage for beginners and students in creating websites. Firstly, WordPress is rich in a variety of website templates and themes, and secondly, you do not have to pay for […]
Why is Big Data important for business?
Big Data is the buzzword for working with huge amounts of structured and unstructured data. There are a lot of services using Big Data nowadays. You might read more about these services here: https://itsvit.com/services/big-data/. Now we want to discuss the importance of Big Data, benefits and some unique features of Big Data. You can distinguish […]
Fast Colored TextBox for Syntax Highlighting
Introduction For one of my projects, I have felt the need of a text editor with syntax highlighting. At first, I used a component inherited from RichTextBox, but while using it for a large amount of text I found out that RichTextBox highlights very slowly a large number of colored fragments (from 200 and more). When such highlighting […]
WPF / MVVM Real-Time Trading Application
Prelude On July 1st, 2009 I received a phone call from a recruitment agent promising to make me “an offer I couldn’t refuse”. I had no clue how he got hold of my name, phone number or place of work but he seemed to have assumed a very strong connection between me and the WPF/MVVM […]
Swap Two Numbers without using Temp Variable
That conclusion is definitely wrong. Your equation expanded equals: b = (a+b) – (a-b) = a+b – a + b = 2*b For your example a=20, b=10b = (20+10) – (20-10) = (30) – (10) = 20b = 20 + 10 – 20 + 10 = 20 A counter example to disprove this: a=75, b=88 b = […]
How to simplify coding DependencyProperty in WPF and Silverlight
Introduction This tip will introduce an excellent method to simplify Coding DependencyProperty in WPF and Silverlight. Background Writing Dependency Property is really an annoying task and so easy to make mistakes. I’ve found an excellent solution to solve this problem. Using the code 1. Install AutoCode 4.0 (https://www.devprojects.net/). 2. Generate the three files at the […]
Mimicking SQL Server identity column in Oracle
Introduction Every now and then a question is asked, how do I define an identity (auto-increment) column in Oracle like in SQL Server? There’s no such concept in Oracle directly, but similar behavior can easily be created. Unique numbering in Oracle An identity definition in SQL Server is bound to a single column which is […]
Aurora 12 is out – improvements and updated Developer Tools
Aurora 12 is out, together with updated Developer Tools, and these are the improvements/changes. Highlights A few of the improvements that stand out a little more: ECMAScript Harmony’s Simple Map and Set builtins For testing purposes, we have implemented ECMAScript Harmony’s Simple Map and Set builtins. This is only in Aurora and will be disabled when it […]
C++ String Toolkit (StrTk) Tokenizer
Introduction This article will present the tokenizing and splitting functionality of a simple C++ library called the String Toolkit. Tokenization in the context of string processing, is the method by which a sequence of elements are broken up or fragmented in sub-sequences called tokens. The indices in the original sequence that determine such breaks in […]