We at Pivotal Action were recently given a task for a client – develop a tool for a mobile API where admin can upload a list of retailers so that their mobile app users could find locations near them. It’s basically a “Find near me” utility. This type of project is broken down into 3 …
Tag Archives: Web Apps
Quiet the Console – PhoneGap / iOS
I have a confession – I’m a console logging junkie. I just like to see what’s going on. While that may be great for development, at some point you’ll have to quiet the logging down for production. Really – doing enough logging will slow everything down each time you’ve inserted a console.log() into your code. …
Mobile Platform Detection on the web
I had a use case recently where I need to determine whether the client browser was a desktop/laptop/etc or a mobile device that supports tap events in JS. This will be useful to people who are dynamically binding different events to elements. var tmpElem = document.createElement(‘div’); tmpElem.setAttribute(‘tap’, ‘return;’); clickEvent = (typeof tmpElem.tap == “undefined”) ? …
Installing PEAR Libraries Locally
[I started this post quite a while ago and forgot about it. Here it is finished. Hopefully you find something useful here] I’ve had a few projects already where I could really use some PEAR libraries but not sufficient enough access to the server so I could install them in the system-wide PEAR include directory. …
Nasty WordPress Worms
I just ran across a nasty worm in one of my WordPress blogs (not the most current install). Not only did it overwrite a ton of files, inserting spam links and malware into the pages, but it was sneaky enough to go into my wp-admin/.svn/prop-base/ directory and re-write those files as well. It’s fairly ingenious …
CakePHP: Storing Configs in your DB
There are many situations in web apps where site-wide configurations need to be accessible to users through admin interfaces, rather than configuration files residing on the server. It is a practical method of storing configuration values that may need changing from time to time, but without access to the core configuration file. UPDATE (2008-10-22): This …
Zend Framework – Getting Started
Working with a new client project this week that requires the Zend Framework. It’s not my choice of frameworks, but I’m still eager to get going on it. As I’m a bit more familiar with CakePHP, I thought it would be wise to watch a screencast or two about getting started on ZF to see what …
Unchecked checkbox values
Working with form check boxes can be a bit of a pain on sites with dynamic content. Saving the checked data is easy, but how do you easily save the unchecked value without manually adding it to an array from inside your code? Keep reading. revealCMS is working great – I’m really starting to see …
Award Winning : Davey Awards
I just received word that one of my projects just won a Davey Award for online marketing and email campaigns: Munchkin’s Project Pink: Email a Duck, Raise a Buck! Harley Bergsma at the UXB and I devised this brainchild together. From there he took care of project management and I took care of developing the …
SMARTY: Assigning variables to the header from the body
The problem recently presented itself to me when writing some new functionality for revealCMS: I needed to set some variables to load in the page head, but could only be set after a portion of the body had completed rendering. I wrote a plugin that essentially loads a different stylesheet depending on the input of …
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