I’ve seen various attempts to use JavaScript to customise the file upload button. The browsers historically do not lend themselves to making this easy to achieve due to security considerations – the idea is not to make it simple for anyone to upload a file from the PC to a remote website without the user …
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When running the project via xCode, the reason there was no access to the device sensors on iOS from JavaScript became apparent from the logs: ios ERROR: Plugin Compass not found, or is not a CDVPlugin. Check your plugin mapping in config.xml Of course, the config.xml was just fine, but at least this gave me …
To run our Cordova sample on iOS, I’m using a Mac OS/X Maverics with Xcode 5.02 installed. To add ios support in our compass application, from within the compass directory, issue: cordova platform add ios This went smoothly. Next, building the project: cordova build ios This also went smoothly. Finally: cordova run ios This yielded: …
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Yeah, this is a silly one which you can easily find by running man du but somehow I never got to it and ended up using less efficient methods: du -h -d1 .
This will probably work on other versions of Ubuntu and Linux as well: Assumes you have python >= 2.6 already instaled: $ wget -P Downloads/ http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py $ sudo python Downloads/distribute_setup.py $ sudo easy_install pip
Just some notes that have accumulated: when trying to mount a remote windows NTFS system via: sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.112/E -o username=Administrator,password=mypass /home/me/mybackup/ and receiving: wrong fs type bad option bad superblock on … this is because the cifs flag requires: $ sudo apt-get install smbfs more info here Adding a program to unity …
Just putting it here since the next time it’s needed I won’t remember: ALTER TABLE tbl_name CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci; got it from here
I found a good walkthrough the easy way at this page I’m replicating the text here in case it’s gets lost but the credit goes to Matthew Holt _______________ What follows is the text taken from Mathew’s blog: Install Homebrew ∞ In case you haven’t already, install Homebrew by following the instructions at the bottom …
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The JavaScript Scrabble game that I wrote almost a year ago has been sitting abandoned so I released it as public domain at github for the off chance that someone would like to join the development. The game is here: http://amnond.github.io/jscrab/ It can be cloned from: https://github.com/amnond/jscrab
So, I was wondering what have I actually spent my time on and was it wisely spent ? About of month writing software to simulate forex trading. Downloaded and cleaned years of 15 minute resolution forex data – put it all in a database (sqlite) created software in C++ to test various plug-in algorithms (in …