Archive for the ‘serene’ Category

  • iOS 5 OpenFlow tweaks

    Nov 23, 11 • Mobile, sereneNo Comments
    iOS 5 OpenFlow tweaks

    Openflow is an open source library that implements an iTunes style cover flow. [http://apparentlogic.com/openflow/] When iOS5 was released, though, it started looking funny – the covers were coming in from the front instead of the back. The perspective was completely off. This can be fixed with a few tweaks outlined at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7686506/how-can-i-make-openflow-work-correctly-in-ios-5-0 Specifically the following   ...

  • OSX Lion default python v 2.6

    Oct 13, 11 • sereneNo Comments
    OSX Lion default python v 2.6

    OSX Lion ships with python 2.7 as the default, but there is a way to make it use 2.6 by default. The following was retrieved from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6998545/how-can-i-make-python-2-6-my-default-in-mac-os-x-lion $ man python  $ which python /usr/bin/python  $ python -V Python 2.7.1  # # temporarily change version #  $ export VERSIONER_PYTHON_VERSION=2.6 $ python -V Python 2.6.6  $ unset VERSIONER_PYTHON_VERSION ...

  • PhpMyadmin #2002 Cannot Log In To MySQL Server

    Oct 13, 11 • sereneNo Comments
    PhpMyadmin #2002 Cannot Log In To MySQL Server

    If you get a “#2002 Cannog Log In to MySQL Server” error from PhpMyAdmin Try changing the “localhost” to “127.0.0.1″ in config.inc.php in the root directory...

  • Embedding Custom Fonts in iOS [iPhone, iPad]

    Sep 10, 11 • digitalfractal, Mobile, sereneNo Comments
    Embedding Custom Fonts in iOS [iPhone, iPad]

    Though iOS 4 comes with a variety of fonts, you may want to include additional ones for an application. Recently, we had to include Arial Black in our UIWebView for a card viewer application. Here is how: You drag the *.ttf file into the Resources folder Add a row to the *-info.plist file called “UIAppFonts” ...

  • Android requires compiler compliance level 5.0 or 6.0. Found ’1.4′ instead

    Sep 7, 11 • digitalfractal, serene, TechNo Comments
    Android requires compiler compliance level 5.0 or 6.0. Found ’1.4′ instead

    In Eclipse, you may run into the following error while developing Android apps: Android requires compiler compliance level 5.0 or 6.0. Found ’1.4′ instead.  Please use Android Tools > Fix Project Properties. The fix to this is to right click on the project, go to project properties, and under java compiler set it to 1.6 ...

  • Crystal Reports Web Portal

    Crystal Reports Web Portal

    We just began working on a web portal for crystal reports for a large company. The data warehousing has already been completed. The web portal will eventually include other tools the company currently uses but are not centrally accessible – i.e. dispatching contractors is still done on excel spreadsheets. The reporting services will make it ...

  • PhoneGap on XCode 4.0

    Jun 28, 11 • digitalfractal, Mobile, sereneNo Comments
    PhoneGap on XCode 4.0

    If you are using the open source mobile framework PhoneGap to develop mobile applications, you may run into a problem first running it on the newly released XCode 4.0 development tool. When you try to go through the Phonegap Tutorial, you will notice that on Step 4 there is no such folder called “www”. To ...

  • Mailserver Setups: Verify Your Timezone

    Jun 9, 11 • serene, TechNo Comments
    Mailserver Setups: Verify Your Timezone

    We have been busy setting up the mail server on one of our web properties. Instead of paying a 3rd party such as Vertical Response $500+ / month, we decided to purchase a $500 software [Active Campaign] and set it up. Within the next few days, we will post a complete tutorial, but we noticed ...

  • Switched to Site5 for Shared

    Jun 6, 11 • digitalfractal, serene, TechNo Comments
    Switched to Site5 for Shared

    I have a number of websites that did not warrant being on dedicated server, so we are back at Site5, except for a couple of dedicated apps and our emailing server. So, currently we are using: - Site5 - Linode [For Salam Pages] - Voxel [For another Rails application as well as a dedicated mail ...

  • Heroku Status

    May 6, 11 • serene, TechNo Comments
    Heroku Status

    Today one of our clients’ websites shut down, so she called me frantically wondering what happened. It seems like the CLOUD CRASHED. Yes, Amazon S3 – hosting a large number of cloud based services – crashed, leaving our client helpless for nearly 30 hours...