Implemented quick Cordova app testing in browser
and opensourced it… link is at: https://github.com/amnond/cordova-on-browser
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Where is my car ?
Someone already made something similar: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/where-is-my-car-web-app-and-phonegap-app At this point I’m looking for a good cordova.js stub file – seems others are also looking for something like that but there aren’t any to be found in the small search I’ve made – only the Ripple chrome extension which only supports Cordova 2.0 and didn’t really work …
Brilliant JavaScript file upload function
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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Cordova sample running on iOS
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 …
Trying to get cordova sample running on iPhone
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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Getting the size directories take on your disk
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 .
Installing PIP on Ubuntu 12.04
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
Various Linux tips
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 …
Changing a MySQL table to UTF8
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
Install PHP-FPM and MySQL on nginx in OS/X Mountain Lion
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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