Alright, I’ll admit it. Even after 15 years, I’m still a huge fan of Magic the Gathering. I love the game and I’m a huge collector. So, like any other person looking to collect, I’m on eBay alot. But the problem with eBay is that I’m never quite sure what’s a good price for an item I’m interested in. I’ve done the long, drawn out task of looking through completed listings, but it’s simply not scalable. So, utilizing ...
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Having taken a recent interest in behavioral analytics, I devised a perfect hackathon project. The idea was simple; bring behavioral analytics to the masses by building a super lightweight platform with brain dead simple RESTfull event calls. Once the hooks were in place for any given website, we could monitor the site’s usage in real-time to alert the owner in the event of abhorrent behavior. Given that most website owners’ see their site as a black box, this product would ...
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I occasionally read through discussion boards that show off various artwork, but often find myself sifting through pages of text till I finally find the images I’m looking for. So rather than continually sift by hand, I build this tool to ease the process.
Here’s how it works. First off, rather than download all images to my server and sort them out there, we simply generate a new “lens” on the existing page, then let the client’s ...
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Just got back from the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon 2011 and took top place 2 years in a row! Last year I created “Deal Pulse” and took home the prize for “Best Business Award.” This year I had the idea for a weather notification system and called it, “Weather Checker.” 6 teams won the overall contest out of 130, so needless to say, I’m stoked. Read the full article from TechCrunch here.
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Need to check if your users are using a “supported” browser for your site? Don’t like how jQuery handles browser version numbers and chrome. Here’s a bit of javascript to make your life easier by putting version numbers in human readable format. Just update the numbers to match what you consider “supportable” for your site.
function is_supported_browser()
{
var userAgent = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
// Is this a version of IE?
if($j.browser.msie)
{
userAgent = $j.browser.version;
version = userAgent.substring(0,userAgent.indexOf('.'));
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So I’ve had quite a few questions about how I do AJAX caching in Titanium Appcelerator. So, here’s my solution.
First, I needed some persistent storage with a very general structure. I could have gone with flat files, but I decided to make use of the built-in SQLite engine, so that I could easily access entries and delete old data.
var db_conn = Ti.Database.open('app_db1');
db_conn.execute('CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `remote_cache`
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Just picked up a 16GB Black iPad 2 today and quickly noticed that it was bleeding yellow light from the bottom. It becomes more apparent on a black background. See video below.
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I recently began using Titanium Appcelerator to build an iPhone app for WorthMonkey. One of the features I love in any application, is the ability to search a table using remote data. However, this is very difficult to pull off in Appcelerator, because it’s table search work only on local data. So here’s how I got around that limitation to make a true remote search table.
First, obviously it quite easy to add a search bar to a table, so I ...
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So I wanted to build a link parser like the one on Facebook, but didn’t find one that suited me. So I built one. My code is based off the code found here, but I rewrote much of it to be cleaner and to return JSON rather than HTML.
Code Change – Feb 2nd, 2011
Added some refinements to the cleaning mechanism and greatly speed up image parser.
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JAN
Entrepreneur, kiteboarder, photographer, thinker and tinkerer. I enjoy writing code and sharing useful tricks that I find along the way. I can be contacted via at tony (at) redsunsoft.com