programming

Introducing WebAPI ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog

August 23, 2011

Good idea, but something tells me this doesn’t have a chance in hell of being successful. You can’t come to the HTML5 party so late and then expect all other OS vendors to jump onboard with your API. As many developers are aware of, we need consistent APIs across web browsers, operating systems and devices [...]

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Fixing PHP Timezone Issue in Snow Leopard (10.6)

September 5, 2009

I always forget about my PHP development environment when I upgrade OS X.  Apple must think it’s really funny to make developers figure out what’s changed and how to fix it.  Snow Leopard brings us PHP 5.3, which apparently requires a value in the date.timezone setting or your code will produce warning messages.  Unfortunately, this [...]

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OmniGraffle Stencil for Sale

August 25, 2009

OmniGraffle, the Mac-based workflow application, comes with a pretty good set of stencils.  You can also find loads of free stencils and  build fairly nice workflows and diagrams by throwing random icons on a screen.  But if you’re looking for a consistent set of icons for designing information technology related workflows and diagrams, good luck. [...]

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Testing from TextMate

January 10, 2009

Pay no attention to this post. I’m merely testing the XML-RPC functionality from TextMate, my favorite text editor.

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