http://www.cuppadev.co.uk Cuppalicious coding! Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:48:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just over a month ago now, i got sick of my chief open source project, RailsCollab. Nobody seemed interested in it, and the code was growing tired and deprecated. So i decided to try making another open Ruby on Rails project. Like my previous chief open source project, i decided my ... http://www.cuppadev.co.uk/uncategorized/cloning-backpack/ Earlier on, i noticed this little gem on reddit: Which led me to this rather interesting mailing list post by Douglas Crockford: I apologize for my ultrablunt comment. Let me be clear about what I meant. It was decided at the Oslo meeting that the project formerly known as ES4 is no ... http://www.cuppadev.co.uk/webquirks/javascript-2-dead-have-no-fear-haxe-is-here/ I mentioned a while ago that it was possible to make off-line web apps using a combination of the data:/ uri support and the database storage on the iPhone 2.0 firmware. While this solution works, it sure is a bit of a hack. Fortunately there is another way to use web ... http://www.cuppadev.co.uk/webhacks/another-way-of-using-iphone-web-apps-offline/ Recently i have been writing a simple web-based reminder app which requires one to input dates and times. To input the date and time, normally one would add some sort of calendar widget which pops up. But personally i think this tends to be really awkward, especially if you don't ... http://www.cuppadev.co.uk/webdev/fuzzy-times/ The HTML5 Canvas. Great, isn't it? You can draw pretty much anything you want in a pre-defined area. In more recent browsers, you can even get & set pixel data too, so you pretty much have full control over how things look. var ctx = document.getElementById('examplecanvas').getContext('2d'); ctx.fillRect(10,10,190,80); ctx.fillStyle = "rgb(255,255,255)"; ... http://www.cuppadev.co.uk/webquirks/brain-dead-canvas-quirk/ For those of you wanting to build off-line, native applications for the iPhone / iPod Touch (with the 2.0 Software Update), you might have been disappointed to hear you need to shelve out $99 yearly for the privilege of being able to run your applications on a real iPhone. Ok, $99 ... http://www.cuppadev.co.uk/platforms/running-your-own-iphone-applications-without-paying-the-developer-fee/ Finally, Apple have released version 2.0 of their iPhone and iPod Touch firmware. Priced at $9.95 for Touch owners (though free to iPhone owners), i think it delivers excellent value for money, especially considering the previous update for the iPod Touch cost $20 and didn't include the App Store. The new ... http://www.cuppadev.co.uk/platforms/first-impressions-of-iphone-v20-firmware/ Hot off the presses, i've just pushed alpha 3 of RailsCollab to both Rubyforge and Github. Railscollab? What's that? Railscollab is a re-write of the Project Management solution ActiveCollab (otherwise known as ProjectPier), which instead is written in Ruby and runs on the Ruby on Rails web development framework. Why on earth would ... http://www.cuppadev.co.uk/projects/railscollab-alpha-3/ Over the past few months, i have come to the conclusion that this blog needs a new focus. When i first started this blog, i decided the focus was going to be "my work and anything related". This turned out to be a bad focus point, as my real work at ... http://www.cuppadev.co.uk/freshbrew/a-new-focus/ Recently i’ve been playing about with the iPhone SDK. I’m actually quite impressed at the great tools included to make development easier, whether you choose to develop native applications or web applications. Since i wasn’t quite up to scratch with my Objective C, i thought i’d see how much better ... http://www.cuppadev.co.uk/oldbrew/iphone-magic/