Nevermind the fact that a content provider could lose ad revenue, truly the underlying evil in this is that ISPs can change your content. This is why net neutrality is important. Data needs to be untouched as it traverses the Internet. The Problem Crazy how some ISPs would be bold …
In today’s blog, I’m going to show how I used the Sliding-Pane to create a fairly complete iPhone application. You can download the code here. Background In November, I created a UI component called Sliding-Pane that creates a sliding-type animation on a specific div. The idea came from OSX’s …
Compiling Asterisk came to be a little bit of a bother. The main issue is that you’re dealing with a fairly old NAS so some of the shared libraries may not be compatible. I had an old Buffalo TeraStation (Model #HD-H0.6TGL/R5) laying around that I was trying to figure out …
As you probably already know, there’s no built-in way to specify the filename of a report you want to export to PDF, Excel, Word, etc. Then a colleague pointed me to this article. First off, the code for the below solution can be downloaded here. This one took a while …
It probably won’t be often, but sometimes you may find yourself having the need to load Javascript dynamically using XHR. To name a few use cases: Developing a plugin architecture for an HTML5 application. In order to extend your application’s functionality. Load certain Javascript depending the browser environment. A …
Working with the UIPickerView isn’t too bad, but if you’d rather work with cool web technology like CSS3, then this control’s for you. Plus it gives you a nice basis for a very customizable picker control. UPDATE 09-21-2012: The demo stopped working and I suspect it has something to do …
Creating an permanent SMB mount in OSX is not so easy. Maybe some day Apple will make it a little bit easier, but if this is something you’re looking to do, check out the solutions below. If you have any tips, make sure to share it in the comments! There’s …
When trying to access your data tier, you [may] encounter the browser’s built in security feature that does not allow you to make XMLHttpRequest object requests to a different domain (see Same Origin Policy). UPDATE 10-24-2012: To get CORS working in IE8 and IE9, use XDomainRequest using the object’s onload …