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Android App Reviews: Christmas 2011
Having recently exceeded ten billion app downloads on the Android Market, Google recently announced a promotion where they discounted ten apps each day for ten days down to the price of ten pence. Clever that! Given the low price of entry, I picked up a fair few; and haven't tried quite a number of them out yet. Here are some brief thoughts on these, and a couple of other titles that have also recently been released to the market:
Deploying PHP Apps to Heroku
Recently Heroku and Facebook partnered to offer free app hosting on Heroku.
But Heroku didn't support PHP right? Correct.. Until now.
Gravitywell in the Wyvern Christmas Cracker 10k - Race Report
Stuart entered Simon and himself into the Wyvern Christmas Cracker 10k race held at Western-Super-Mare yesterday. They had hoped it would encourage them to train for the upcoming Bath Half marathon on March 2011. Here are some photos which clearly illustrate how well that went.
Use Anchors in html
My personal gripe with some web sites is the lack of target anchors for hypertext links using the id or name attribute. They are very useful for providing a quick jump/scroll to relevant information, more so when you paste a link into an instant messenger for someone else.Keeping Track
There are a lot of solutions available online to help with making notes and organising, and I've been trying out several over the last few months.
Catch
Allows multimedia notes to easily include pictures or audio, Catch also has a fully featured mobile and well designed tablet app which sync immediately with their website. Notes are can be put into separate "streams" which can be shared amongst other users or used to categorise your own notes.
Quick and easy comparison for apps or anything
If you need a quick comparison of almost anything you can just type the name of it into Google and it with "vs".
This will make google fill the rest of the sentence which will be full of alternatives for the thing you're searching for.
I use it with linux commands like sed and awk and another side effect is that it quickly defines the thing you're searching for.
Sugar Coated Cupcake Ipsum
Another Lorem ipsum, this time with extra flavour! Just came accross this: "Cupcake Ipsum".
Give your placeholder text some extra love!
How to avoid EXC_BAD_ACCESS when using pass by reference NSError objects
Sometimes people set the error instance to nil initially. It's better to test what you expected to receive over the error object itself. For example if you call a method to load an object with data from disk you'd test the object being set not the error object. You'd check the error object after you asserted the file data load failed.Tips for Android Tablet Development
Last month the British Android community gathered together (with a sizable international presence, including the Bangalore Android Group) for Droidcon UK, a huge conference in the Islington Design Centre to discuss all things Android.
Whilst a full breakdown of the two days of talks, barcamp and democamp is still forthcoming, I thought that one thread that ran through the whole conference, as well as the Labs hosted by Google the day before, was worth exploring separately.
Howto: Stop Postfix from HELOING as localhost.localdomain
Recently, one of our newly setup mail servers was being added to Spamhaus XBL blacklist because it was HELOING as localhost.localdomain. This would prevent emails from reaching alot of addresses if not fixed (We found this issue during site testing!)
The quickest way to address this (since our /etc/hosts file was correct) was to edit the main.cf postfix configuration file.
You can find the file at /etc/postfix/main.cf.
Open up this file, find the line that says myhostname and change to what you want it heloing as. Now all you need to do is request removal from the blacklist (should take no more than 15/20 minutes).
You're done!