The developer can set the object's characteristics, such as size, colour and speed of movement by using a 'properties' box. The VB GUI parts such as buttons or sliding bars would be used in the application to change properties of the 3D object.
NFC can be used to send information between the handset and the tagged object that could initiate a connection using another wireless technology, such as Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. Nokia says that the Mobile RFID Kit will let a workers send information...
Object orientation works most easily with interpreted programming languages, and one of the most popular choices for web development is PHP. Version 4 contains a useful range of object constructs, and version 5 goes much further down that road...
The patent, which was granted by the US patent office on Tuesday, is for XML serialisation and deserialisation - the conversion of a programming object into an XML file and vice versa. It's an abomination to anyone who does programming that the...
Proponents of RFID will say the technology makes it simple to tag and identify individual objects with a unique identity, rather than just identifying the group to which an object belongs, and that RFID readers can detect multiple tags at a...
The other person is simultaneously presented with the same object plus three decoy objects. They are then asked to select the object they believe the other person is trying to transmit to them. Dr Toby Howard from the university's School of...