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I'm proud to announce my first iPhone application I developped at Front Foot has been released!Winning Numbers is a mobile website adapted to all phones in australia, but you can enjoy it now as a native application for your iPhone under the name Lotto Results.It provides for now the latest results and dividends for all of the major australian lottery games: Oz Lotto, Powerball, Lotto,

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I've updated my version of Happymapper to use Nokogiri. It should be faster. The original Happymapper had already been forked to use Nokogiri by Roland Swingler. Nokogiri is a ruby gem to parse XML and HTML using XPath or CSS selectors. It's written mostly in C, and is very fast. I intend to use this version of Happymapper in an upcoming project with intensive parsing!

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One thing that as made web applications much easier to use in the last few years is the integration of Ajax into web pages. Before that, each click of the user would block the application until the next page loads... not really a great user experience.Now when you want to trigger a long task in the background, you can use Javascript to trigger asynchronous requests... that is just great!Well in

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Routing using Rails is quite simple, you define routes and where they point at. The order in which routes are declared defines their priority. Very simple.Now Rails also provides conditions on routes according to the HTTP method used, and using the request_routing plugin we can use more conditions. We specially use it for the domain, or sub domain used for example. The Frontfoot website and the

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Part of my job consists in getting a lot of data from different sources. Whether it's a SOAP or REST webservice, a TCP Socket, or simply files on a FTP, most of this data is in XML format.There are different libraries to parse XML in Ruby. We used to do with XML Object, but the resulting code is really difficult to read and maintain. We prefer Happy Mapper. It is an XML to object mapping library.

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Last Friday I submitted for Front Foot our first iPhone application. It's quite exciting to arrive at this stage of the project. I have worked so much on this app, our creative designer Deena Baxter did a really good job! I can't wait to show you the result of that work. But I would first like to share with you different tips you may find useful tp submit your own application. The submission

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Well hello there!Let me present myself, I'm Damien, software engineer for Front Foot Media Solutions in Sydney Australia.Lately I've been working a lot on mobile platforms, whether it's for mobile websites with a strong back-end like Three Mobile's iPhone landing page: Planet 3, or for iPhone native applications.I really enjoy developing for the iPhone, we focus a lot on ergonomics, providing the

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