I have been doing my first PhoneGap App today and as part of the exercise, I am using jQuery Mobile 1.0, PhoneGap 1.2 on Xcode 4.2 on my MacBook Pro. The first thing I did was to copy/paste some code from jQuery Mobile site into my HTML page. I won’t be pasting the entire code [...]
I have recently started doing Mobile Apps development as well and one of the things I have been looking at is PhoneGap. PhoneGap is an HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologies and get access to APIs and app stores. PhoneGap leverages web technologies developers already know best. Packt [...]
I recorded this video sometime back on present.me and I thought I would post it here as well. It’s a small video I recorded when I first started using Amazon EC2.
ColdFusion has an inbuilt function for encoding URL vars. URLEncodedFormat – which does the job well, but it does not follow the RFC 3986 , the Internet standards document that describes the encoding of URLs, very strictly. This does not cause problems 98% of the times but I recently found out while working with some [...]
Amazon Simple Email Service is one of the services provided by Amazon Web Services. Directly quoting from their website :- Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a highly scalable and cost-effective bulk and transactional email-sending service for businesses and developers. Amazon SES eliminates the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution or [...]
I have been working on designing/architecting/developing an API recently as part of my job. That has given me the opportunity to read a lot about REST API’s best practices, how things should be done, what are the common mistakes people do and what are the pitfalls you should be looking for. One thing I have [...]
Those familiar with Git, will know that Git only tracks files and not folders. What that means is, if a folder is empty (does not have any files in it), Git will totally ignore it, as there is nothing to track as far as Git is concerned. Now, sometimes, we do run into situations where [...]
In my recent project, one of my tasks is to encode videos in multiple formats. And we decided to use PandaStream for the job. PandaStream is a flexible and highly scalable cloud video encoding API. Here is en entire list of their supported file formats. They seem to have a fairly decent REST API, which [...]
In this post, I will try to cover all the steps required to enable pretty URLs in your wordpress enabled site/blog. I will be assuming that you already have wordpress up and running and if you are having issues with your Custom Permalinks, the following may help you. First of all, make sure mod_rewrite is [...]
I have been using Amazon S3 storage for well over an year now and I totally love the service. However, today I had a situation where I had to give access to a single S3 bucket (the AWS account has a lot more S3 buckets) to a particular user. So, turns out, you can use [...]
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