Promoting your music online should be the primary marketing activity for every musician just starting out or releasing new songs. Online music promotion not only helps build buzz about your band, but it also helps you to grow as musicians by collaborating with other musicians at various skill levels.
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Xtify offers a free SDK and distribution system that allows both iOS and Android developers to introduce rich push notifications within their app (including location-triggered pushes). You can get more information by visiting the Xtify corporate site, developer site, and console (where you set up your app and deploy your messages).
Before you punch the appcelerator titanium website because you keep getting the message “Could not locate the Android SDK at the given path” when trying to setup your development environment, give this a try. Even though you have the latest version of the Android SDK on your machine, Titanium is looking for a specific folder in the sdk directory. After a bit of trial and error, I believe it is looking for version Android 2.2. So, go into your Android SDK Directory > Tools, and run android. Tick the box for Android 2.2, then go back to Titanium and put in your root path for the Android SDK. Voila, works. What’s silly is that you can select later versions (in my case 4.0) to work with.
I’m running
Titanium Studio, build: 1.0.6.201110251616
Build: jenkins-titanium-rcp-master-115 (origin/master)
Date: 25 October 2011, 16:19:29
Hope that helps someone else.
Software industry veteran joins team to focus on growing enterprise demand for mobile customer relationship management tools.
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I’m building a campaign management system and using the google maps api to help target users based on proximity to an address. Here’s a neat way to dynamically create circles around a map marker based on the input of a radius using the google maps api and jquery (using PHP on the backend).
Last week I wrote the article Email Vulcan Cannon: PHP + Forking + Amazon SES. Much to my surprise, I received a few emails asking about it’s actual performance. Here are results from my most recent mailing. Continue reading
Here is a technique I put together to maximize my new Amazon SES (Simple Email Service) email blasting thresholds using PHP and forking. Continue reading
This is one of the most maddeningly brilliant pieces of electronic music composition. Followed by a cover from a live orchestra. Simply astonishing. Continue reading
Amazon recently launched their latest web service: Simple Email Service or SES. The service allows you to send bulk and transactional email through its server farm. There are a variety of overt controls for new users, such as emails per second and emails per day. However, there are also a number of covert controls Amazon employs to help prevent spam. Continue reading
Managing developers can be both very challenging and very rewarding. Not everyone is up to the challenge, nor will they ever be without understanding the mindset of a developer. The intent of this post is not to detail the nuances of such a mind, but to put forth some reasonable guidance if you ever find yourself being in command of a development team. Continue reading
