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Launching ‘TTC Toronto Transit Live’ for Android

July 23, 2013 by thupten ·

After two months of hardcore learning + developing, I have finally completed my first android app. TTC Toronto Transit Live uses Nextbus’s api to get bus arrival prediction for TTC. The app is free. Every smartphone user in Toronto must have a transit app if he/she uses public transit.

There are many apps out there for TTC transit. TTC Toronto Transit Live comes in with a fresh user interface.

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List of android drawable preview

June 25, 2013 by thupten ·

List of android.R.drawable resources with preview.

ab_bottom_solid_dark_holo.9.png

ab_bottom_solid_inverse_holo.9.png

ab_bottom_solid_light_holo.9.png

ab_bottom_transparent_dark_holo.9.png
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Identifying Views with similar names in visual studio .net mvc project

July 6, 2012 by thupten ·

If you have worked on asp.net or any mvc projects, you have created similar view names like index, create, details, delete for different controllers. Now the problem is when you have multiple files with similar names opened up in VS, it gets confusing and you end up reopening the file from the solution explorer. With this solution that I will show you, you can have different color code for similar named view files that belong to different controllers.

Like so

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Simple JQuery Mobile

June 20, 2012 by thupten ·

JQueryMobile is JQuery for the mobile version of a webpage. Its super easy to create a simple mobile page using jquery mobile.

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Create your own captcha to verify forms

June 11, 2012 by thupten ·

Recently the forms on my company’s website had been getting lots of spam. The spammers were submitting the forms with advertisements. We needed a captcha. I suggested Recaptcha, but if you have seen one of their captcha, you would think even a human cannot interpret them correctly. So my boss did not want that. We wanted our customers to have a simple, easy to interpret captcha while also serving us some help fighting the spam. [Read more…]

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