– The interest around web development for iPhone rapidly faded out when native applications became reality. The webkit in each and every iPhone/iPod touch is actually so powerful that almost anything done by a native application can be replicated with a spoonful of javascript. Here's the recipe to bake a contact list with the ABC control to the right, just like the original Apple's application.
Read more »Shutting down linux if a specific process is idle
– I built myself a mini-itx linux server that I use as backup and testing platform. To save the planet I forced the small PC to automatically turn off at night, but I wanted to keep it alive if certain processes were still running.
Read more »Scrolling div on iPhone/iPod Touch
– Recently I had to develop a web application for the iPhone and I was impressed by the possibilities offered by the little device. You can easily render complex 3d animations with a bunch of CSS rules or save data on a sqlite database, but I was surprised to discover that there is no easy way to scroll the content inside a fixed height div.
Create fixed size thumbnails with ImageMagick
– ImageMagick is powerful suite of applications to create, edit, convert and compose bitmap (and some vector) images from the terminal. It's an essential tool for any web designer if you can get your head around it.
Terminal tips for web developers
– Many see the terminal as a scary beast and try to avoid it as much as they can. In reality it is a powerful tool for any *nix user and the more you know it the more you get addicted to it. The followings are some terminal tips you may find useful during your web develop.
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