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SaaS recommendations for software developers

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Nowadays it's all about the cloud and SaaS (software as a service). We are convinced that this new paradigm is a great thing, especially for small businesses that cannot afford too much in infrastructure. For a small software development company, it doesn't pay out to operate their own backend services. The ability would surely be available and probably even a certain motivation in doing it yourself. But the effort and time that one would have to put into it is simply not worth it and the primary focus needs to be on your products, not on your backend. During the last few weeks several people have asked us about the SaaS products that we rely on. In this post we'd like to share our list of recommended tools with you.

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How to get a refund from the App Store

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While it is actually possible to get refunds from the App Store, it is important to know that initiating refunds is completely outside the area of influence of developers. This means that requesting a refund from the developers of an app that you have purchased but are not happy with doesn't lead you anywhere. You have to contact Apple to get your money back.

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Three useful UIWebView tweaks

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It is a well known fact among iOS developers that creating screens with complicated formatted text is a hassle. UILabel, UITextView, and friends are not really designed for that purpose. The alternative that is often used to overcome those limitations is the versatile UIWebView combined with some local HTML content and CSS styling.

But the UIWebView itself comes with strings attached. In this post we are going to share three small tips that might help in making the UIWebView look more integrated with the rest of your UI.

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How to create a shared and extendable menu on Android

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Menus are a nice and important human user interface element on Android. They are nice because they add options without adding clutter to the small mobile screen and they are important because they are of great help for users that rely on accessibility.

There is some handy documentation on the Android Developer Website about how to create a menu for one single activity but in the real world the situation is a bit more complex. Larger apps can span dozens of activites and most of the time you want to have different individual menu items on each of those as well as global menu items that are available on all activites. Common examples for global menu items are the "About", "FAQ" or "Support" buttons that you find in apps quite often.

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New website launched

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After long and hard work, we are excited to start the new year with the launch of our brand new website. It has been completely redesigned from the ground up and we really hope that you are going to like it.

It is and it will always be a work in progress of course. Our intention is to keep you informed about what is going on at Neoos throughout the year. So please stay tuned for more and come back soon!

And don't forget to let us know what you think it the comments...

Happy New Year and all the best for 2012!



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