Category: Awareness

In short, design patterns are solutions to recurring problems. By extension, UI design patterns are solutions to common user interface problems. This article goes over 10 interesting UI design patterns that you can use in your own projects. In fact, you may already be using them now without knowing it.

Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), a joint venture between the Finnish cell-phone giant Nokia and German powerhouse Siemens, delivered what is known as a monitoring center to Irantelecom, Iran's state-owned telephone company.

Open Emu is an open source project to bring game emulation to OS X as a first class citizen, leveraging modern OS X technologies such as Cocoa, Core Animation and Quartz, and 3rd party libraries like Sparkle for auto-updating. Open Emu is based on a modular architecture, allowing for game-engine plugins, this means Open Emu can support a host of different emulation engines and back-ends while retaining a familiar OS X native front-end.

When you create a PersistenceManagerFactory / EntityManagerFactory you define the connection URL, driver name, and the username/password to use. This works perfectly well but does not "pool" the connections so that they are efficiently opened/closed when needed to utilise datastore resources in an optimum way. DataNucleus allows you to utilise a connection pool using Apache DBCP to efficiently manage the connections to the datastore.

New! We are glad to introduce DC Government Open APIs. Two APIs are currently available in "beta" mode: Service Requests/311 and Geocoding. Simple registration is required.