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Push Notification Server Tutorial
Hi everyone, sorry about the frequency of posts as of late, I was out of town for a few days, and accepted a ft position for the next couple of months, so I am currently overwhelmed.
Something I’ve been looking into mainly for testing purposes is push notification. Now, push notification can really mess up an app so you have to be able to deal with it.
Creating a push notification server can be complex especially if you’re not a web developer.
Feature Rich Open Source Push Notification PHP Server
Received a comment from Duccio about the release of a push notification server library for the iPhone, iPad and iPhone touch for which the code has recently been posted.
Here are some of the features:
Autoload system, explicitly include only Autoload.php and all classes are loaded on-demand.
Message class, to build a notification payload.
iPhone 3GS Could Shape Up As Killer Gaming Device
As a developer I’ve been salivating over the released iPhone 3GS specs, here’s what we know so far:
2x the memory at 256MB (This itself is huge.)
Approx. 40% Faster processor (I didn’t really find this to be that big an issue but everything helps.)
OpenGL ES 2.0 support (Huge as this adds programmable shaders)
Compass (makes for much better accelerometer based controls)
Video (sometime support will apparently be added in the sdk)
PowerVR SGX chip (don’t know which one yet)
Adding Stylish Progress Indicators To Your App
Found out about a great library by Matej Bukovinski for easily adding stylish progress notification graphics to your app.
The library is MBProgressHUD, and a full example is included. It is very straightforward to implement, and includes it’s own thread creation so you don’t have to worry if threading is a topic that you are not up to speed on.
Jeff LaMarche has also posted an in-depth tutorial on doing this if you’d like to do it “from scratch”.