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  • 19 DEC
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    InstantChat is Live on the App Store

    Development, Mobile, App | 0 Comments
    A pet project of mine, InstantChat, went live on the App Store today. It’s a (very) simple chat app that lets you quickly connect and chat with any nearby iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad via Bluetooth. I’m planning on adding some more features in the near fut [...]
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  • 12 DEC
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    Why You Should Care About UI

    Development, Mobile, App | 0 Comments
    I know a lot of developers aren’t great with UI design, or “making it look pretty” as some will call it, but too often it seems that making necessary improvements to the interface of an application or site is the subject of procrastination — “we’ll get to [...]
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  • 27 NOV
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    Using Magic Methods to Call Remote Functions

    Development, Mobile, App | 0 Comments
    Have you ever wanted to directly call a function or method that is in a script on another server? I know it sounds crazy, but stay with me here. Initially, my answer to this solution was to write an XML interface, which seemed entirely logical especially [...]
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  • 04 OCT
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    Simple IP Address & Subnetting Class

    Development, Mobile, App | 0 Comments
    On a few occasions, I’ve been faced with situations where I’ve needed to determine whether a given IP address was part of a particular subnet. Granted, usually PHP sites don’t need to worry about things like that, but sometimes it is necessary to restrict [...]
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  • 06 AUG
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    Yay for power outages

    Development, Mobile, App | 0 Comments
    I love unexpected power outages, especially when they last for hours and prevent me from getting work done. So, if you couldn’t reach some of my less important sites, including this one, that’s why. [...]
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  • 31 JUL
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    Apple and the App Store

    Development, Mobile, App | 0 Comments
    I’ve had a very interesting response to my recent TUAW article regarding the removal of Google Voice from the App Store. Reader “VanillaSpice” gave some good insight into his opinion of the whole ordeal, and I think it’s worth reposting our exchange here: [...]
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  • 17 MAR
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    Simplify Reporting Output

    Development, Mobile, App | 0 Comments
    Recently, I have been tasked having to generate several reports containing various metrics, and then export these into an Excel sheet so that the data can be processed further. I also occasionally get requests for data in a CSV format that can be imported [...]
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