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Notepad++ Subversion Plugin adds Revert


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Today we've release version 1.2 of our Notepad++ Subversion Plugin. We received a comment asking for revert and since it was a pretty straight-forward thing to add, it has been added.

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2,000,000 Visits and Growing


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Another year has come and gone here at Switch On The Code and that means it's time to look back at 2009 and how we did. First I have say it was a great year and we really did a lot of new things here. We started podcasting, doing video tutorials, and much more. A new version of the site was launched built completely in Drupal just about 1 year ago exactly. Now I really hope that this year will bring just as many goodies.

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PDC 2009 Round Up


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Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference has just wrapped up and I've decided to run through an account of what happened and some of the major announcements that have been made.

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AppKiDo - Making Cocoa Touch Documentation More Accessible


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I enjoy writing applications for the iPhone, not because I like Objective-C or Xcode but I really like seeing the application on my phone. This means I have to endure the other two. Being fairly new to the Cocoa and Objective-C world I spend a fair amount of time in documentation. This is always a mundane task but Xcode just makes it a completely bad experience. Recently I ran across an application that improves the task. The application is called AppKiDo.

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Welcome to the Month of iPhone


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With July ending, so does our month of Silverlight. All-in-all I think it was an enjoyable experience, however we did start to run out of interesting ideas there towards the end. We've spent an entire month with a Microsoft technology and it's time to shift gears. This time we're going Apple with an entire month dedicated to iPhone tutorials.

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Are You Ready to Catch Stat Fever?


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We've successfully jumped through all the Apple App Store hoops and are proud to bring you the first iPhone application brought to you by the writers of Switch On The Code - Stat Fever. I bet you're wondering what Stat Fever does, so I'll tell you - it lets you view your Feedburner stats from anywhere using your iPhone. And really, why would you use anything but an iPhone to view you Feedburner stats?

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Welcome to the Month of Silverlight


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Instead of randomly throwing out tutorials for whatever language or framework happened to interest us at that given moment, we've decided to try to focus our tutorials into groups - each lasting one month. As you can probably guess by the title of this post, July is the month of Silverlight.

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Unexpected Server Down Time


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The data center that holds our dedicated server suffered a power loss yesterday morning that unfortunately took down Switch On The Code for close to 14 hours. This incident, however, really showcases the potential of Twitter's real-time search. A simple query for "crucialparadigm" listed a handful of people experiencing the same outage.

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Great Places to Find Beautiful Usable Icons


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Icons are our forgotten friends. Every app needs them, but often times they are thrown in at the very end. Of course when building an app single handedly, you should not focus on such things when code needs to be written. But when it comes time to build a user interface, they are typically an after thought. Today, however, I will show you some pretty useful sites to find what you need quick.

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Bing Survives the Search Engine Achilles Heel: Programmers


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I've strayed outside of Google only a couple of times in my professional career as a programmer, and every time I've raced back shivering and scared at how bad the world is outside of Google's house. When it comes to programming related queries, it's amazing at how unhelpful search engines can be. With the launch of Bing, I've crept outside once again, and I can proudly report that it doesn't suck as much as I expected.

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