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iPhone Developer resources

admin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:19:44 +0000

As I’m just starting to develop Comeks client for iPhone, I’ll gather here some links of good iPhone developer resources.

General

iPhone Dev Center - Official Apple Support, you need to register to the developer program
iPhone Devver - a nice search engine for iPhone development
XCake Wiki - Wiki for Cocoa programming

Tutorials

Stanford iPhone Development Course - Complete Lectures (PDF)
Creating your first iPhone application - Tutorial on making a calculator for iPhone
Cocoa Touch Tutorial: iPhone Application Example
iDevKit Tutorials & Samples
iPhone SDK Articles - A nice collection of tutorials
iPhone Programming Tutorial - Transitioning Between Views - basic tutorial on IB and how to move between views

Discussion Forums

Blogs

Sample Code & Open Source

PackLog
iPhoneComic viewer
Transport (a.k.a GottaGo)
metasyntactic
To find more, search Google Code Projects

Deployment & Marketing

Veiled Games

Code Snippets

Using Disqus commenting system with WordPress

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:07:46 +0000

Disqus is a commenting system that offers features improving commenting blog posts in many ways:

Threaded discussions: users can reply to other comments
Email replying: bloggers can reply to comments via email
Shared profiles: The profile that commenter creates in Disqus is shared across all blogs using Disqus. So users can use the same profile to post comments in any blog that uses Disqus.
Spam control

Installing Disqus is easy:

Download the DISQUS Comment System WordPress plugin
Copy the plugin to WordPress plugins folder
Go to admin panel and activate the plugin
From Settings->DISQUS->Advanced set your DISQUS API Key and import your current comments to Disqus

Disqus is currently funded by Y Combinator and Union Square Ventures. There are other competing services such as JS-Kit and IntenseDebate.

AS3 Code Libraries

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:54:13 +0000

Adrian Parr has published an extensive list of AS3 Code Libraries
which contains most of the popular ActionScript 3.0 (AS3) libraries including 3D engines, Tweening Kits, etc.

µSprite, AS3 Graphics Sprite Editor

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:38:09 +0000

µSprite generates ActionScript 3 code from your vector graphics. Sprites can be created in multiple layers and animated with timeline based tweens. µSprite generates ActionScript 3 or haXe code as you are drawing and designing. You can also import SVG graphics.

You can include the code as-is in your projects or enhance it further. With AS3 code your graphics can be resolution independent and might result in smaller, faster downloads than Flash applications with embedded bitmaps.

Enabling Google Analytics in WordPress

admin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:24:10 +0000

Google Analytics is one of the best free web analytics services. It offers huge amount of features to track down and analyze your website’s traffic.

Its installation can be done by pasting the provided JavaScript to each theme’s template, but easier way is to install Google Analytics for WordPress -plugin created by Joost de Valk.

Download Google Analytics for WordPress
Copy its files to WordPress plugins folder
Activate plugin from WordPress administration area. Click Plugins, then Activate.
Set your Google Analytics account number from Plugins->Google Analytics

Enabling FeedBurner feeds in WordPress

admin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:54:47 +0000

Google’s FeedBurner is a good service to promote, deliver and monetize your blog’s RSS feeds. I use it mainly because it provides extensive statistics regarding the use of my feeds.

Here is a quick and easy way to replace your WordPress feeds with FeedBurner feeds:

Register to FeedBurner and create a feed for your blog
Download FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin
Activate plugin from WordPress administration area. Click Plugins, then Activate.
Then in WordPress administration, click Settings and FeedBurner and type your FeedBurner URL.

Printing stuff based on user’s role

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:07:40 +0000

This way you can print blocks, menus, links, etc. based on role:

[-]View Code PHP

 global $user;
if (in_array('rolename', $user->roles)) : ?>
<p>print stuff herep>
 endif ?>

Social Media in PR

admin — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:34:25 +0000

Social Media Releases - Everything You Ever Wanted to (or Should) Know
The Social Media Manifesto – Integrating Social Media into Marketing Communications

Compile PHP 5 with LDAP support in Cpanel / Centos 5

admin — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:47:24 +0000

Install the openldap rpms

WHM>Software>Install RPM
- installed openldap
- installed openldap-servers
- installed openldap-devel - if it is not installed, you’ll get “Cannot find ldap.h” error while recompiling - this also needs cyrus-sasl-devel installed
(If cyrus-sasl-devel won’t install - find your existing version and download it from the centos mirror
- installed openldap-clients - for working from command line

Recompile Apache

if you are using php5, add the following in /var/cpanel/easy/apache/rawopts/all_php5

--with-ldap=/usr

Then run /scripts/easyapache

After compilation run php -m to check that ldap support is added.

Installing LDAP server into Centos Linux & configuring it for JBoss Seam

admin — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:23:46 +0000

Installation:

http://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=ce5&p=ldap

Configuration:

Integrating Seam and OpenLDAP
Configure Seam with OpenLDAP
AcegiSecurity Plugin - LDAP Tutorial
Seam Docs 15.4.3. LdapIdentityStore

LDAP Clients for OSX

LDAPManager (doesn’t work under Tiger)
JXplorer
Apache Directory Studio

Creating admin user

base.ldiff file:

dn: dc=,dc=
objectClass: dcObject
objectClass: organization
dc:
o:
description: 

dn: cn=Administrator,dc=,dc=
objectClass: organizationalRole
cn: Administrator
description: Directory Administrator

And to add the entries:

ldapadd -x -h localhost -D cn=Administrator,dc=,dc= -w
-f base.ldiff