LightSwitch is a great tool to build business applications as it allows you to build a conceptual data model and a user interface. All the in-between plumbing is being taken care of by LightSwitch. A prototype is built pretty quickly and the framework allows for a great deal of customization if one wants to. You can write code at all sort of places so that you do not even recognize that it is a LightSwitch app.

And the best thing… you develop one app and you can deploy it to the web, to the desktop and into the cloud!

Go here for more information: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/lightswitch

Day 1 will give an introduction to iOS 4 development, Objective-C in particular, and the development tools needed to write apps. Whereas day 2 will be more hands-on and will give attendees the chance to start with a small demo project with guidance from Daniel Magin and Olaf Monien.

I have been invited to take part and will be presenting some content as well. As my current work at University includes app development with iOS 4, my main focus will be to give practical advise and some in-depth analysis on various topics. When time allows, I might just show some code snippets from apps that are in the AppStore already.

Hopefully, it will allow attendees to take the initial hurdles with Objective-C easier.

If you are interested click here to view the complete agenda.

However, update 1 will introduce Push Notifications so that you will be pinged whenever something interesting happens in the world of Developer Experts. Push Notifications will notify you about upcoming events and current releases in the world of Delphi, .NET and Objective-C.

Just go to the AppStore and search for ‘Developer Experts’. US-based customers may click the AppStore logo to go to the app:
Developer Experts - Stay up to date
Hersteller: Holger Flick
Freigabe: 4+
Preis: Kostenlos Download

Thus, before I introduce you all to my latest app, let me highly recommend their workshop that will take place in September in Berlin, Germany. Why did I blog about it here? It is a special workshop for people who have programming skills in Delphi already and want to start with the iPhone/iPad as well. Again, I can only underline how good this workshop is to get started building mobile applications on Apple’s mobile iOS platform. Furthermore, there is a whole day dedicated to Delphi and the German Delphi days two days later. If that is not a reason for booking a trip… so, hurry, before all places are taken!

Now back to EniRemote. The application is still being reviewed by Apple while I am writing this. However, I have a team of about 10 beta testers that already had access to the application and judged that it was ready for general distribution. Thanks guys! Sadly, the application that will be published in the App Store is already one week old and is lacking some feature improvements that I already made this week.

As I already said, EniRemote allows you to control your DreamBox from anywhere as long as you connect to it via HTTP. It currently does not support SSL in order to circumvent any encryption/export restrictions that might exist. The phrase ‘control your DreamBox’ has many interpretations. Firstly, you have a huge remote control-like view that allows you to mimic any of the keys you can press on your physical remote control. This alone is a huge improvement for me as the DreamBox 800 PVR HD has a very picky remote sensor …

Furthermore, the app allows easy zapping and browsing of service EPGs. Even the picons of the channels in different bouquets are downloaded from the box and cached on the iPad device. We do not ship any of the channel icons with the application. Please not that all logos displayed in the screenshots belong to their copyrightholders and these images are shown as an example to illustrate the functionality of the application. I use the Picon Icon Set by LicherPils which is being published on the I-Have-A-DreamBox boards. Right now the bouquets are fully controlled by the box settings. We are planning however to offer a favorite list of channels that can be assembled on the iPad and needs no change of any settings on the box.

Recordings are also being displayed and you can take a screenshot if the grab plugin is installed on your box.

We do not support timers as of yet, but work has started to offer that feature. Furthermore, the next release will offer support to connect to more than one box. You will be able to create box settings profiles.

Maybe you own a DreamBox and will give the app a shot as soon as it will be released in the AppStore.

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