iPhone / iPod Touch Backup Extractor
This may come as a surprise to some of you, but debugging applications on the iPhone is no picnic. I know, crazy, isn’t it! It’s next to impossible to get the information you need from a customer’s device without building in some method to send the user’s preferences, data, etc. right into your application, which [...]
MyGarden (or “Is There an App for My iPhone to Track the Things I’ve Planted?”)
My first app for the Apple AppStore is finally in the queue waiting approval to appear in the AppStore. It’s called MyGarden, and keeps track of the things that you plant in your garden.
Apple OS X WebDAV doesn’t work right (or “How To Redirect Carefully”)
I have a WebDAV server that I store all of my personal documents on, and after upgrading to Tiger awhile back I had problems with folders disappearing in the directory listing, and things just not working quite right.
It turns out that the Apple WebDAVFS (and some other WebDAV client implementations) have problems with the Apache [...]
Hebrew in PHP (or “Unexpected What?”)
One of the guys here just got an interesting PHP error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘)’, expecting T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM in C:\wamp\index.php on line 201
Apparently it’s hebrew for “double colon”.
You learn something new every day.
Firefox 3 Smart Bookmarks (or “Find Your Place”)
Firefox 3 includes an interesting concept called places. The idea is that all history and bookmarks are stored in a SQLite database, and the browser exposes an API to interact with the data. You’ll see it in action in the “Smart Bookmarks” button in the Bookmarks Toolbar — these are dynamic queries against the database [...]