Last month I ran a book give-away contest for the phonegap book, sponsored by Packt Publishing. I think the response was great and I got some great comments in there. However there can only be 2 winners for the print version of the book and after speaking to Packt, they have been kind enough to [...]
I work with quite a few different Amazon EC2 instances on a daily basis and I use SSH command line interface to connect to these servers and as you can imagine, a normal command for that would look something like this :- Now, imagine typing that in for 5 different servers multiple times during the [...]
I have been trying to get my command line mail working on my MacOS (Lion) today and I noticed that the normal postfix emails get treated as SPAM by Google and because I was sending emails to myself on my gmail account, that was an issue for me. So, I thought of using gmail as [...]
If you are a ColdFusion developer and have not used ColdBox yet, well then, I must say you are missing something. Go ahead and try it out. This post won’t make much sense to anyone not familiar with ColdBox. For those who are familiar with ColdBox, I will be including an example of how you [...]
A few days ago, I wrote an API wrapper for Amazon Simple Email Service. Today, I thought of converting it into a ColdBox Plugin for use within ColdBox apps. I have added the plugin source code to the existing github repository for the project. Feel free to use, test and report any issues (if found).
I work with Railo and Amazon S3 on an almost daily basis and one of the things I recently looked at was how to upload a file directly to Amazon S3 when a form with a file type field is submitted. Turns out it is pretty easy to do so. Railo has built in support [...]
Luis Majano posted on his blog about a ColdBox contest that allows you to win a Kindle Fire or an iPod Nano. ColdBox 3.5.0 Beta has been released just yesterday and I believe it is a good opportunity to develop and win prizes at the same time. I am a regular ColdBox user myself and [...]
If you have an application/page that returns only XML or JSON repsonses and the end client is not a browser (an API e.g.) and you want to use Google Analytics for tracking your API calls, then you won’t be able to use the standard Google Analytics Javascript code. There is no browser involved and you [...]
In this post, I will be talking about the steps involved in deploying your PhoneGap app to your iOS device using XCode. Bear in mind that if you only want to test your app functionality, you can do so in the iOS Simulator available within XCode. However, for whatever reason, if you want to actually [...]
Book Give-away Hold a chance to win free copy of the PhoneGap Beginner’s Guide, just by commenting! For the contest I have 2 copies of PhoneGap Beginner’s Guide, to be given away to 2 lucky winners. How you can win To win your copy of this book, all you need to do is come up [...]
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