I had a problem on a new rackspace cloud server i had just set up where curl called from php was unable to resolve hosts, but that same curl command called from the command line ran just fine. Turns out the problem was that apache was unable to read /etc/resolv.conf because of the file permissions. Change the permissions to 644 and it works fine now.
I just got my 4s and decided to check how much faster the network is with the new antennae than my old 3gs. Here’s the outcome, I am using the speedtest.net mobile speedtest app. read more »
After many failed attempts at getting twiki to work on our server by following their installation guide, i finally figured it out. The trick is to turn off mod_perl and set the correct permissions of the twiki folder. read more »
The HTML5 Geolocation API is built into newer browsers and returns the approximate latitude and longitude of the device in JSON format. read more »
Put together a quick css3 demo of a dashboard style card flip using pure CSS for the transitions. Javascript is only used for toggling the class name on click and the animation property sliders. Currently only works in Safari 5.
Got this email from Gary. Epic
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So i have this profile pic that i use almost everywhere, my hair was pretty crazy and i took a picture of it in a mirror to send to my girlfriend while i was on the phone with her, so i had my blutooth in at the time.
Today, I installed Photoshop CS5 trial and used content-aware fill on a selection of the blutooth and i was pretty blown away at the results.
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So i recently acquired a new uni body macbook and have since been getting used to the switch from windows to mac. I gotta say I’m very much loving the OS X experience and the multi-touch gestures on the giant new track pad. That being said, one of the things that was really annoying me was the default modal disjointed photoshop experience. I like all my apps to be in a nice neat window container.
Auditorium is an amazingly fun and beautiful flash game. If you haven’t checked it out yet, stop reading now and take a look. The site hints that the creators are working on an iPhone and console version. I want this on my iPhone now.
I’ve written another MooTools plugin (class) for facilitating the hiding of various help messages you may have scattered throughout your app.