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weekend of coding at secret london
I've had this post sitting in my draft posting for the past couple of months and had completely forgotten about it until recently, so I thought it best to commit some thoughts down for future...
View ArticleLearn Visual basic instead of Objective-C
I thought this was both hilarious and interesting, I just discovered Objective-basic! I've been playing around with Objective-C on and off for the past year ("I have that great app idea!") but I've...
View ArticleQuick speed up on javascript loops
I have heard that one of the ways to speed up js is how you define your criteria on the number of iterations in a loop. Reading an article on Javascript best practices, you should cache the look up of...
View Articlereading about eval in js – why not to use
I've been reading through and slowly digesting some of the points on tutsplus.com post on "The Essentials of Writing High Quality JavaScript". One of the many interesting parts is the point about Eval...
View ArticleWriting PDO prepared statements in Modx to import CSV files
Here's a small note for myself (and anyone who just wants to knock up a quick query using XPdo and Modx Revolution). Xpdo is the ORB (Object-relational bridge) or ORM that Modx Revolution has adopted...
View Articlemysql stupid errors – ERROR 1005: Can’t create table {table name} (errno: 121)
So I've spent at least half a day trying to figure out a stupid error when synching (creating) between my mysql workbench schema to a mysql database. I was receiving an error : ERROR 1005: Can't create...
View ArticleSymfony 1.4 – Creating old sql tables when running build command
Dear future self (and whoever it may concern). You may recall that Symfony has a rather nifty feature to build your models and db from the YML file. If you rename any of the tables through YML, the old...
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Titanium Mobile App development and london web cruise
I had an absolute ball at the London Web Meetup annual cruise where we set sail from Westminster, going back and forth between Putney and Greenwich on a nice river cruise. Always a blast having a bunch...
View ArticleTitanium.UI.currentTab is null?
For some reason Titanium.UI.currentTab sometimes returns null and you need a work around by defining it on a focus event on the tabGroup as a work around....
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Full frontal JavaScript conference in Brighton
Full Frontal is a JavaScript conference focused predominately on the front end, this is a jumble notes and reflection on it. After missing it last year, I made it a point to get a Full Front conference...
View ArticleMissing path to get Titanium Alloy Template working in Studio
After having lots of issues on Titanium Studio and getting the Alloy templates showing up, I finally found the reason for it now showing. It was down the npm install path folder (which Studio uses to...
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Over The Air mobile conference 2011
I had the pleasure to attend the Over The Air conference this year. It's essentially a free conference over a couple of days where there are speakers during the day who talk about things relating to...
View ArticleQuake like drop down terminal for Mac OSX
SInce I started using Mint Linux, I have been steadily getting more drawn to the command line and love using Guake to quickly access it. It draws its inspiration from the game Quake, where the...
View Articlehow to change host and apache conf files for MAMP
I use MAMP for my OSX dev, the regular edition doesn't include the easy way to add to the host file (so that you can have a dev domain eg mylocal.dev) and virtualhost to the apache.conf, you need to...
View ArticleDebugger keyword in Appcelerator Titanium
I've been using Appcelerator Titanium for the past year to play around building Iphone apps, whats good about it also builds to Android. I've just realised you can use the "debugger" keyword in code...
View ArticleFastest way to run a web server for development
To future forgetful self, this is the fastest way to run a web server. To anyone else, you just need to navigate to the directory and run the command below. python -m SimpleHTTPServer Simple!
View ArticleGetting my own status updates via Facebook graph api
To get your own facebook status updates this is the graph query: /me/statuses?fields=message&limit=20
View ArticleDelete already-Merged Branches on integration or master
I always spend a few minutes on google how to do this so I thought I keep a reminder here. To delete local branches which have already been merged into master: git branch --merged master | grep -v "\*...
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JavaScript things to remember #0
Amongst my interests at the moment is JavaScript and as I've got the worse memories in the world, I've decided to embark on doing a series of JavaScript related posts for my future self. I find...
View ArticleJavaScript things to remember #1
Prefix plus symbol (+) before a value You can apply the + value before a element and it is used as a special function known in maths as a unary operator ro perform a check to see if it's a number....
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