Top 5 regrets of the dying
Posting so I don’t lose the link. Nice little blog post. http://www.activistpost.com/2011/11/top-5-regrets-of-dying.html
I'm Gareth and I build awesome websites and apps in beautiful Wellington, New Zealand. I'm passionate about great web product. I love clever stuff, faraway places and things that go fast.
Posting so I don’t lose the link. Nice little blog post. http://www.activistpost.com/2011/11/top-5-regrets-of-dying.html
I’ve been a regular Kickstarter visitor for about twelve months, but it was only in December I decided to back my first project; the TGT, pronounced “Tight” wallet. It’s a tiny wallet suitable for numerous cash-cards, a drivers license, business cards, along with a few cash notes. Made from Italian leather and high quality elastic by hand in Brooklyn, it feels great in the hand, and it’s size means it’s hardly visible even in the most hipster skinny lower-attire. The fit is perfect; it’s clear great attention to detail in both construction …
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Spent a while looking around for this – turned out to be easier than I imagined! var retina = false; if (Titanium.Platform.model==’iPhone 4′){ retina = true; }
Had a fairly eventful day building an API teamed with a bespoke Codeigniter-driven content management system, and fell into a few problems when POST’ing information from the CMS to my web service. I’ve put together a quick + dirty function that’ll get you started, and I’ll publish a more in-depth post later, with a dedicated Codeigniter library.
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An easy way to resize images quickly from the command line on your Mac. Navigate to the directory where the images you wish to resize are, using cd. I use a wildcard search (*) to resize all images in a directory, but to resize individual images, just swap *.JPG with the image’s filename. Here, I’m setting the maximum dimension (width or height, depending on whether the image is landscape or portrait) to 1920, or 1080p. sips -Z 1920 *.JPG
Mac OSX is essentially a UNIX distribution, so we have all the cool under-the-bonnet tricks and tools of any operating system with a UNIX backbone. One of the utilities I’ve always found useful in a UNIX OS is the CRON tab. The post describes how you can put together some Cron-jobs on Mac OSX.
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I thought I’d copy the ‘My Sweet Setup’ feature from Shawn Blancs blog on my own, and talk about my daily workflow the tools I use to get things done.
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There’s been a lot of speculation recently about the next generation of the top text editors us developers are using day to day on our OSX based machines. I share my feature wish list for my editor of choice, Coda.
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I figured out a way to use my UK based Ubuntu server to act as a proxy, forwarding packets from services like BBC iPlayer and TVCatchup to my MacBook Pro in our flat in Suji. This post will show you how you can use Squid3 to easily setup a proxy so you can stream content from the UK.
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