So basically, I have no idea where to start since I'm not actually a desktop developer.
I'm a web dev but we need this functionality in our current project with a client but sadly we don't have background knowledge for this and we have been searching for ways how to do it and so far we are convinced that we need C/C++/C# for this.
But the problem is how or in where do we start? The use case for this is very few and thus too little Documentation is available especially in forums.
We would appreciate any help. Thanks in advance.
I'm having troubles with finding tutorials/examples of how a simple VoIP application would look like. I've searched the web and found an out-dated step-by-step tutorial, so it wasn't much of a help and that's about it considering tutorials. However I've managed to find some nice API's like libosip ( oSIP ). It would be a great thing if anyone would know any good tutorial; or if anything a small VoIP open source app that i could checkout. I don't really have any troubles with understanding someone else's code if it wasn't commented/explained.
There is a great sip framework called PJSIP. look at this example for a short, but yet complete demo. Also take a look in the PJSUA API.
Do any of you guys know of a free online (or offline if it's in java) language identifier service? (I don't want a tool you use manually. I need a service, sice I have to do this identifying programatically.)
I've got a form and I'd like to figure out what language a user has written in.
Come to think of it, shouldn't this be doable through a Google thingy somehow? Since they detect page languages and all, and they're mostly open source...
Thanks for any help. Cheers!
[I added a "google-translate" tag since there isn't anything regarding text-recognition (there's image and voice but no text)]
Language Detection Library for Java looks like the kind of thing you are looking for.
Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_identification for more links.
Language Detection API has free plan. You can pass text via HTTP POST and receive JSON result with detected languages and scores.
I'm a computer science student with experience in C/C++ and I want to have a go at developing
a simple facebook app. Can anyone recommend a good website and/or editor?
Is it doable with C++ or do I need to learn another language?
Thanks
I assume that you are talking about an internet application.
For the front end (client side), you will need something to enhance your web pages (in Javascript, for example). For the back end (server side), you will need to make database queries so you will need to know SQL as well.
No, I don't think C/C++ is enough.
I would suggest that you investigate some other languages such as PHP or ASP.Net.
It sure is doable in C++. I recommend though that you first write a small Facebook client API in a scripting language so you can do some quick and dirty testing while getting familiar with how the API works. This will save you a lot of frustration when trying to write the C++ version.
As editor I recommend Visual C++ Express Edition if you are using Windows, XCode if you are using Mac, and on Linux I'd use Vim (if that is your cup of tea).
A good website? The Facebook API docs pages of course!
i Released c++ facebook graph api client as open source
check it out here :
facebook-cpp-graph-api
Python might be worth considering.
The Wiki might not be a bad place to start on it.
(There are a couple of link to Tutorials in there)
Facebook Developers Wiki
check this c++ graph api as open source you can download it and use it
its handling login/authentication sequence with the Qwebkit:
http://code.google.com/p/facebook-cpp-graph-api/
So I understand that there are a few options available as far as parsing straight XML goes: NSXMLParser, TouchXML from TouchCode, etc. That's all fine, and seems to work fine for me.
The real problem here is that there are dozens of small variations in RSS feeds (and Atom feeds too), so supporting all possible permutations of feeds available out on the Internet gets very difficult to manage. I searched around for a library that would handle all of these low-level details for me, but came out without anything.
Since one could link to an external C/C++ library in Objective-C, I was wondering if there is a library out there that would be best suited for this task? Someone must have already created something like this, it's just difficult to find the "right" option from the thousands of results in Google.
Anyway, what's the best way to parse RSS/Atom feeds in an iPhone application?
I've just released an open source RSS/Atom Parser for iPhone and hopefully it might be of some use.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on it too!
"Best" is relative. The best performance you'll need to go the SAX route and implement the handlers. I don't know of anything out there open source available (start a google code project and release it for the rest of us to use!)
Whatever you do, it's probably a really bad idea to try and load the whole XML file into memory and act on it like a DOM. Chances are you'll get feeds that are much larger than you can handle on the device leading to frequent memory warnings and crashes.
I'm currently trying out the MWFeedParser #Michael Waterfall is developing.
Quite easy to set up and use (I'm a beginner iPhone developer).
His sample code for using MWFeedParser to populate a UITableViewController implementation is helpful as well.
take a look at apple's XML Performance sample -- which points to using libXML directly -- for performance and quicker updates to the display. Which may be important if you are working with very large feeds.
Check out my library for parsing Atom feeds, (BSAtomParser) at GitHub. It doesn't care about validating the feed, it does its best at returning whatever is valid. The parser covers most of RFC 4287, even extensions.
Here's my solution: a really simple yet powerful RSS parsing library: https://github.com/H2CO3/RSSKit
Have you looked at TouchCode yet? I don't think it has an RSS processor, but it might give you a start.
http://code.google.com/p/touchcode/
I came accross igasus project on sourceforge today. I haven't used it or really checked it, but perhaps it might help.
From their site:
igagus is a web service for the iPhone that allows aggregation of RSS to be delivered in an iPhone friendly format.
Actually, I was trying to suggest you ask on the TouchCode discussion board, because I remember someone was trying to expand it to support RSS. That might be a decent starting point. But I was being rushed by my wife.
But I see now that TouchCode doesn't have a discussion board. I'd still ask the author, though, he might know what came of that effort.
This might be a reasonable starting point for you. Atom support isn't there yet, but you could help out?