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I think the technical term is a turbo trainer
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You have a choice . You can by a turbo trainer . These have a range of options from simple through to riding against virtual people on your pc with corresponding prices . You can also ride rollers which are simply drums you put your bike on . Both types are more suited to bikes with smooth tyres. But a word of warning - they can get boring and are not to everyones taste
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A fat girlfriend on a buddy seat...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Quote: "A defunct American racist organisation has absolutely no connection or affinity with the people of East Belfast," he said.
It actually is not defunct. They still hold rallies. I'm not sure what their agenda is today but as far as I know cross burning is not one of their tools anymore. I'm sure they're trying to cause trouble some other way.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I know some Americans claim Irish roots (they can't drink like the Irish though!), but why?
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I was procrastinating and wandered over to the Cordova[^] site. A cross-platform Javascript library to allow devs to create apps on Mobile devices using a single API using Javascript, CSS and HTML.
So: anyone used it? What's the general feeling on cross-platform mobile development? There was a thread on Xamarin[^] the other day that had mixed responses so I thought I'd throw this into the fray.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I didn't used Cordova (I will attend a meeting about it next week with samples and presentation), but did used Intel XDK[^] that sound me the same. You are develop in a JavaScript/HTML/CSS environment and the Intel XDK creates packages for every platform it supports...
It is very nice on the level that you can use your knowledge and need not learn new languages, but it is still force you to learn (and that's the good part  ) about mobile platforms and its features.
All in all I found Intel XDK a nice idea and if ever will develop for mobile I will use it or some other toolkit based on the same idea...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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De ride... so smooth.
De seats? Only de finext CorINthian leather.
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KHHHAAAAAAAAANNNNNN!
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I have trust issues with cross-platform kit, in that it rewrites my code, and I don't trust it to do so.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I've used XDK and I've used Cordova. While the Cordova "platform" is powerful, it's a complete PITA to use. As it's primarily run from the command line, it's easy to miss something, especially if you're adding features. Forget a step and it can be a complete pain to unwind and figure out what went wrong.
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Yes, I hate the command-line thing including for installation. Is there any other ways to install that other than "npm" way? Last week I found the details of latest release(ver 3.5) on their site but couldn't find the download for 3.5.
Please give me light on this.
Recently I have installed both XDK & Eclipse. Gonna start quickly. But before these I just wanted to take a deep look on Cordova.
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thatraja wrote: Is there any other ways to install that other than "npm" way?
Not that I'm aware of. Sorry.
You don't need Eclipse for XDK. I just use the Brackets editor in Chrome. It's installed as part of the XDK installation process.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
thatraja wrote: Is there any other ways to install that other than "npm" way?
Not that I'm aware of. Sorry.
Hope there'll be few on future versions.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote: You don't need Eclipse for XDK.
Agree. But just wanted to try recent version[^].
Pete O'Hanlon wrote: I just use the Brackets editor in Chrome. It's installed as part of the XDK
installation process.
I didn't aware of this one. Thank you.
I found your recent article[^] & I think you're gonna post series of articles on mobile development. And is the any possibility for reboot of this article[^]?
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thatraja wrote: is the any possibility for reboot of this article
Possibly at some point. I had a few articles written on 7.5 and then Microsoft announced that 8 would be a big departure from 7.5, rendering a lot of what I was writing moot. It kind of knocked the wind out of my sails.
thatraja wrote: I think you're gonna post series of articles on mobile development
That's the plan. I have some things I'm doing for Pluralsight first, but I have some interesting things coming up.
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I had personally used Cordova for small scale projects. It's really good. However there are pros and cons of using Cordova and Xamarin
The biggest advantage of using Cordova is it's opensource. You can quickly build mobile apps and target multi platforms. But it does have performance issues and I have seen peoples really hate to use apps developed using Cordova. On the other hand Xamarin which also serves the same purpose of targeting your application to multi platform, however its not free. I haven't really used Xamarin, but I did heard a lot about it. They are pretty good, efficient. You can build native apps very quickly and target multi platforms. There are numerous advantages of using Xamarin. What I really feel is Xamarin wins over Cordova 
You can have a look into the following articles for more understanding on Cordova apps.
Property Finder - a Cross-Platform HTML5 Mobile App[^]
PhoneGap Cordova JSONP RSS Feeds[^]
Thanks,
modified 2-Jul-14 20:08pm.
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Yes, but using an older version. It merged with a thing called PhoneGap.
Plus, I wrote a CP article about it: Clickity[^]
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yeah im using phonegap now
meh
Bryce
MCAD
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Doesn't it seam absurd to you that there's a cross-plaform library out there for javascript - a cross-platform language?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It's a cross-platform set of APIs using Javascript. No different than a cross-platform SDK in C.
What I find absurd is Javascript being used as a first class language.
I know - now I sound old, stuffy, elitist and a dinosaur. I just - I dunno - like things like type safety and stuff, and languages where {} + {} doesn't equal NaN.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: I know - now I sound old, stuffy, elitist and a dinosaur. I just - I dunno -
like things like type safety and stuff, and languages where {} + {}
doesn't equal
NaN.
Well, we dinosaurs have to stick together.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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After dealing with ridiculous type conversions and unnecessary classes just to do the obvious, JavaScript is a relief. I can do a project in about 1/4 of the time it takes to do it any other way. And for those who worry about type safety - if your code is written well, you shouldn't have to worry about it.
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