Just a quick tip if your iPad or iPhone is not appearing in Xcode or iTunes. This was happening to me even after a complete machine restart.
Found a tip that suggested a re-install of iTunes.
So, I re-installed iTunes and I’m back in business!
September 13, 2010
May 19, 2010
Twitter Status Update URL issue with URL encoding
I am developing an iPhone app that allows the user to tweet information from the app. For simplicity’s sake, I chose to use the URL method of sending the user off to Twitter to sign in and finish their status update. When I redirected the user to:
http://mobile.twitter.com/home?status=Hello%20World
The status update was dropped after the user logged in. So, I switched to:
http://www.twitter.com/home?status=Hello%20World
which looked fine even on a smaller screen. And, after the user logged in, the status message was retained. But, so was the URL encoding. Instead of “Hello World” the status would have been an unsightly “Hello%20World”.
I finally stumbled onto the fix and it’s an easy one. Just drop the www:
http://twitter.com/home?status=Hello%20World
And, now it works as expected after the user logs in.
January 11, 2010
Calling CakePHP Code from Other PHP Code
In order to call CakePHP from non-CakePHP code, we will copy index.php from /app/webroot and put it into our non-CakePHP codebase as cakephp.php.
Then, we’ll create a function requestCakePHP that requires the cakephp.php file:
function requestCakePHP($url)
{
// Set the url parameter for cakephp
$_GET['url'] = $url;
require_once 'cakephp.php';
// Fire up CakePHP and buffer results
ob_start();
$Dispatcher= new Dispatcher ();
$Dispatcher->dispatch($url);
return ob_get_clean();
}
?>
Then, whenever we need to call for some Cake, we just call requestCake with the URL minus the hostname:
echo requestCakePHP("/webpages/view/2");
In the example above, I have a webpages controller, a view action and am viewing webpage #2.
September 9, 2009
Google Maps Info Window Too Big – Fixed!
It always feels good to solve a long-standing and puzzling issue. Today’s fix has to do with a Google Maps window that was about 50% taller than it had to be:
After several rounds of setting fixed widths inside the info window’s HTML content, I added the following CSS for .gmapmarker which is the class of the div that wraps all of my info window’s content:
#gmapmarker {
display: block;
max-height: 185px;
}
.gmapmarker {
max-height: 185px;
}
And that did the trick:
