http://www.lyingonthecovers.net As one world ends... the Death of Kings. Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:03:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While discussing mobile web frustrations with Rob, we hit on an idea to reclaim a few pixels for sites that we visit regularly enough to have added them to our device's home screen. Having been working a lot with HTML 5 for mobile app development recently (which Rocks, with a capital ... http://www.lyingonthecovers.net/?p=371 This is very easy to do - and the documentation is bang on the money... but as always, there are no examples! So without further a do... Create a bb-proctab file in the etc folder in your Big Brother's home folder with the following syntax: <host name>: <yellow alert processes> : <red ... http://www.lyingonthecovers.net/?p=369 So, what have I been doing lately? Well I've been wrestling with my first Mobile App in Objective C and the Cocoa Touch frame work for every bodies' favourite mobile platform! Between a day job, a social life and a couple of other projects, I haven't really had the time ... http://www.lyingonthecovers.net/?p=366 So, how this for an interesting interview question: You have two variables with integer values, without creating a third variable exchange their values. At first it sounds fairly simple, but then it hits you that it's actually not... there's no simple 'exchange value' function. Here's how I solved it: list($a, $b) = array($b, ... http://www.lyingonthecovers.net/?p=365 Saturday morning I attended the Friends and Members preview of the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition and was faced with my annual choice between spending £12 on two glasses of Pimms or going whole hog, spending £18 on a jug and getting sloshed. The Summer Exhibition is something I always approach ... http://www.lyingonthecovers.net/?p=361 This Friday I went to see my good friend Isnaj Dui perform at a relatively new arts venue, in a rather overcast Stoke Newington, called Cafe Oto. Despite a slightly awkward journey I was very impressed with the venue. Its white brick walls and concrete floor gave it a blank ... http://www.lyingonthecovers.net/?p=358 Here's the disclaimer: I'm currently teaching myself Python for use with Google's App Engine and (unlike my PHP or Perl) I'm not entirely sure if the below is best practice or even remotely sane, but that said, it does seem to work for me! Setting a Cookie Notes: Obviously the code is ... http://www.lyingonthecovers.net/?p=357 These past few weeks I've mostly been writing Python for Google's App Engine and listening to Country Music. They say a change is as good as a holiday, so two changes must be equivalent to a cruise or something. To cut to the chase, today I was testing some Cookie functionality ... http://www.lyingonthecovers.net/?p=356 The above image will be deleted once it's been downloaded from my server 100 times. http://www.lyingonthecovers.net/?p=354 Rob found this on the internet today... I thought it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen! After some consideration I decided to post it on my blog in order to stick it to the conformists out there. Poor kid - I'm glad we didn't have photo sharing sites ... http://www.lyingonthecovers.net/?p=349