Category Archives: Mobile Development

jQuery is a powerful library that allows JavaScript developers to easily manipulate the Document Object Model (DOM) in web pages, which is one of the reasons why jQuery is a popular choice for app building. In addition to its DOM … Continue reading →

Here’s what we focused on: Intermittent Connectivity – Going in and out of coverage won’t kick you out of the reader anymore, meaning less disruptive reading on the train (as long as content is in the Offline Bookbag, or has … Continue reading →

JSON is an easy standard to parse in client-server applications. It is easy to implement and simple to understand. With the release of the iOS 5 SDK, the NSJSONSerialization class was added in the SDK, which gives an easy to … Continue reading →

XML parsing is an essential element for client-server applications. Most of the data transferred between client and server is in XML format, and generally, the XML data received from the server is of XML-RPC, SOAP, REST or RSS standard. In … Continue reading →

UITableView is one of the most used UI elements in iOS apps. This post will cover a very simple example that explains how to create a UITableViewController and populate with the data in an array.

It’s been an exciting year! From Responsive Web Design to jQuery Mobile, we’ve published a lot of great tips and tricks for developers in our Safari Books Online blog. Here we’ve compiled our most popular posts of 2012, along with … Continue reading →

Apache Cassandra is a powerful NoSQL database that can handle massive scalability needs and at the same time guarantee fault tolerance. Cassandra offers a unique data storage model that was explored in previous articles (try this article). Also, we briefly … Continue reading →

Apache Cassandra is an open source NoSQL database that is designed to meet the challenges of massive scalability and fault tolerance. In previous articles (try this article) we discussed the basics of Cassandra and its unique data modeling techniques (try … Continue reading →

In a previous article we covered the basics of the Apache Cassandra database, a modern, open source, NoSQL database inspired by Google’s BigTable implementation. Cassandra exposes a unique data model composed of rows, columns, and column families all stored in … Continue reading →

Apache Cassandra is an open source database system that belongs to the category of databases referred to as NoSQL or Not only SQL (Structure Query Language). Cassandra is designed to handle massive scalability challenges commonly encountered by modern web applications, … Continue reading →