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html5 LocalStorage
If your using the html5 localStorage and JQuery $.Ajax() to perform localStorage.removeItem() you should set the property ‘async’ to false or it will only ever remove a single entry.
Less.js – or how I made my styl...
Lately I’ve been playing around with Less.js, as part of that I’ve tried to find a decent way to make a set of elements that can be reused easily across my team at work as well as my personal projects.
After a little bit of an initial investigation there where 2 ways that I thought we could go to create a set of less files to crea [...]
The future. It’s what’s f...
Don’t tell me the future you where promised hasn’t materialised as a quick example nearly everyone I know has a device that:
Gives you a 10m resolution of your location ANYWHERE ON THE EARTH
Allows you access to the biggest repository of human knowledge ever compiled
Allows you to send and receive messages directly from a good 30 [...]
Mercurial Branches
This is easily the best resource I’ve read about Mercurial branches. Its short, concise and actually explains whats going on. Perfecto!
Rapid app development
The other week on the UK version of The Apprentice the task set by Lord Sugar was to create, market and release an app, the most downloads in 24 hours won. Watching The Apprentice normally makes me want to crawl behind the couch and shout obscenities at the way the teams go about things, you know the usual weak leadership, bitching and just g [...]
Data mining my life
Recently I’ve gone a bit of a data mining splurge. I’ve started calculating the distance I move each day, created a huge spreadsheet of ALL my spending and, the most common area that people data mine about themselves, working out how many calories I eat. I’ve started to look a bit more in to how I could possibly drill down i [...]
Bug reporting on iOS
I have a simple question to pose to you, how easy is it to submit a bug report for an iPhone app?
The correct answer is, of course, near damned impossible and its not just the developers fault. Currently Apple controls 100% of the app process bar the bits that are genuinely vital for a developer such as source control and issue tracking. Sure [...]
A war-walking iPhone app in less than...
Job hunting is boring so I’ve been wondering if it would be possible to actually make a semi-decent war-walking app within 24 hours. I know that it’ll never live on the app store because Apple won’t make the API’s needed public (which is why you’ll never see my dissertation app on the store as well) but it seems like a semi decent idea to rel [...]
Textmate 2 wish list
I mostly use Textmate to write Java and produce LaTeX documents and as a resutly most of my wishes revolve around this but this is my WISHLIST, things I’d love to have but ultimately wouldn’t be too disappointed if they never appeared. After all I still love Textmate as it is!
Fullscreen mode
The actual editing area centred on the screen and [...]
Textmate – I still love you
Its no secret that I’m a HUGE fan of Textmate for pretty every task that involves Java, latex or any of the more obscure languages that I’m required to try and understand as part of my degree course. At the start of university I had someone ask me why I used Textmate over BlueJ/Eclipse when I was writing code – my answer?
It’s simple and it g [...]