Thursday, May 10, 2012

Appcelerator Titanium

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Appcelerator Titanium is a platform for developing mobile, tablet and desktop applications using web technologies. Appcelerator Titanium is developed by Appcelerator Inc. and was introduced in December 2008.[1] Support for developing iPhone- and Android-based mobile applications was added in June 2009.[2] Support for developing iPad-based tablet apps was added in April 2010.[3] BlackBerry support was announced on June 2010[4] but it is still in closed beta.
Appcelerator Titanium Mobile is one of several phone web based application framework solutions allowing web developers to apply existing skills to create native applications for iPhone and Android. Yet, while using the familiar JavaScript syntax, developers will also have to learn the Titanium API, which is quite different from familiar web frameworks such as jQuery.
Appcelerator Titanium is sometimes compared to Adobe Air for developing desktop applications for Windows, Mac and also Linux [5]
All application source code gets deployed to the mobile device where it is interpreted (the company's marketing refers to this as being a "cross-compiler").[6] This means that during development any errors in the source code do not occur until run-time. At run time, the loading performance is lower, as the last step (i.e. interpreting the source code on the device) needs to be done every time the application runs.
Some developers have reported that although working with Titanium gives fast results, making Titanium well suited for prototyping, there are issues around differences in behaviour of the API cross-platform, stability and memory management, that made them re-write their apps in native code in the end. [7] [8]. However, as of February 28th, 2012, there have been over 30,000 applications shipped to the app stores built with Titanium, including NBCUniversal's flagship mobile app [9]. Many Appcelerator developers cite the speed of development, native UI, and JavaScript skill set needed as reasons why they choose to use Appcelerator[10].
In June 2011, Appcelerator released Titanium Studio and Titanium Mobile 1.7. [11] Titanium Studio is a full open standards IDE that is derived from Aptana Studio which Appcelerator acquired in January 2011. In April 2010 Appcelerator expanded the Titanium product line with the Titanium Tablet SDK.[3] The Titanium Tablet SDK draws heavily from the existing support for iPhone but also includes native support for iPad-only user interface controls such as split views and popovers. Initially the mobile SDK only supported development for iPad, but support now includes Android-based tablets as well.
Appcelerator, Inc. also offers cloud-based services for packaging, testing and distributing software applications developed on the Titanium platform.[12] The company expanded its product line in January 2011 by acquiring Aptana, Inc, a developer of open source tools for building web applications. [13]


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PHP


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This article is about the scripting language. For other uses, see PHP (disambiguation).


PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for Web development to produce dynamic Web pages. It is one of the first developed server-side scripting languages to be embedded into an HTML source document, rather than calling an external file to process data. Ultimately, the code is interpreted by a Web server with a PHP processor module which generates the resulting Web page. It also has evolved to include a command-line interface capability and can be used in standalone graphical applications.[2] PHP can be deployed on most Web servers and also as a standalone shell on almost every operating system and platform free of charge.[3] A competitor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) server-side script engine[4] and similar languages, PHP is installed on more than 20 million Web sites and 1 million Web servers.[5]
PHP was originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. The main implementation of PHP is now produced by The PHP Group and serves as the formal reference to the PHP language.[6] PHP is free software released under the PHP License, which is incompatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL) due to restrictions on the usage of the term PHP.[7]
While PHP originally stood for "Personal Home Page", it is now said to stand for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor", a recursive acronym.[8]



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Dropbox


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A dropbox is a secure container in a building's wall where items can be deposited.
Dropbox may also refer to:

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