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Mobile App Development Resources
Is your parish or organization interested in building its own iPhone, Android, or Blackberry App? There are tons of resources available to help you in building the App.
There are different ways you can get your own app:
Build Your Own (DIY)
This is often difficult due to lack of resources (time, money, programming personnel), but is highly advantageous in that a custom-made App can do pretty much anything you want.
This approach requires knowledge of different development frameworks and programming languages (Objective-C and Xcode for iOS, Java for Android,...
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Calling Mobile Developers
Update: I’ve posted links to some Catholic developers who have responded to this post over on the Catholic Mobile App Development Resources page.
I’m going to be giving a presentation on mobile devices at an upcoming Catholic conference, and I’m looking to see if there are any Catholic web developers, programmers, etc. who specialize in app and mobile website development.
I’ve found plenty of Christian developers, but it seems there is a dearth of Catholic developers (at least, judging by Google search).
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Good to Read Again: Hallmarks of a Great Developer
From MSDN Blogs, back in 2004, but applicable today in every way: Hallmarks of a Great Developer.
- Plans before coding
- Always knows why
- Writes situation-appropriate code
- Deviates where and when necessary
- Knows when not to change code
- Approaches debugging scientifically
- Walks through their code
- Knows the language and platform intimately
- Groks the tools
- Improves the tools
- Knows when to ask for help
- Always has a side project going
- Doesn't make assumptions
- Documents
- Follows coding standards
- Uses version control
- Makes lots of small checkins
- Tests their own code
- Has passion...
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'Is Apple Catholic?'
Fun reads:
- Do you agree with Umberto Eco, that Apple is Catholic and PC Protestant? It looks as though Pope Benedict might... [Catholic Herald]
- An Icon Leaves... The Legacy Lives [Whispers in the Loggia]
Regardless on your thoughts of the Mac/Windows divide (or, I guess, the iPad/vaporware divide ;-), you have to acknowledge that Steve Jobs has had an extraordinary influence on the daily lives of much of the world, through his work in the early days of Apple, promoting the personal computer, to the modern day mobile computing experience....
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Development + Design Help
Hey All,
Looking for some help with a fairly large upcoming project, in addition to possible help with a future smaller project. Here is what I'm looking for:
- Entrepreneurial spirit
- You use a Mac and are always looking for ways to improve your workflow
- Upset with the current status of Catholic media and design desiring to bring the quality of secular web design to the Catholic world
- Have a passion for learning and developing your design & development skills, always looking for the best solution and not simply the fastest...
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Wordpress Multi-site
I'm working with a religious order. They want a Wordpress site for each of their locations, so I suggested a Wordpress Multi-site setup. However, their IT folks have never set this up before apparently, so I am stuck trying to explain!
Questions:
1) I wanted each site to have a subdomain of mainsite.org BUT I'm under the impression that subdirectories would be easier for the IT dpt to setup. Am I correct in this?
2) Once they've done the initial installation, can they just set me up with a Super...
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PHP Array (List) of All United States Dioceses
Below is a listing, via PHP array, of all U.S. Dioceses and Archdioceses by city name. The IDs were arbitrarily assigned to the dioceses (and they're not all in the U.S., but oh well), and this is the listing that is being used to help with an open parish directory, so it may change from time to time. Any time a new diocese is added, it should be added to the list alphabetically, but with an ID one higher than the ID of the greatest item in the list.
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