Macbook Pro – Make an external monitor your primary display

Recently, I got a mac laptop at work, which is sup[er sweet, but I wanted to hook it up to a real monitor, keyboard and mouse. All very easy things to do. The problem I had was that the laptop was acting as the primary monitor. Every application that I drug over to the secondary [...]

Outputting a BOOL in NSLog

Ever wanted to use NSLog in the iPhone SDK to see the value of a BOOL? Heck I have! “How do you do it”, you say? Just like this: NSLog(@"BOOL = %@\n", (boolVar ? @"YES" : @"NO")); Then again, I don’t use NSLog anymore, I use DebugLog

ColdFusion powered iPhone Applications

Last month I had the honor of being a presenter at CFUnited 2010. Luis Majano and I gave a presentation on creating “ColdFusion Powered iPhone Applications”. Specifically, coldfusion apps running on the ColdBox Framework The volume is low, so you need to crank it up. You can download our demo source code and slides here

UITextField.text is not always there!

If you have UITextField in your app and you want to validate a value or  see is there something in it you might think to write some code like this: if (![addNewCellTextField.text isEqualToString:@""]) You would be right, but this will fail if the field is never touched! When a user taps the field, and it [...]

Upgrading RAM in a MacBook Pro unibody

I helped run the camera while my good friend Luis Majano upgraded the RAM in his MacBook Pro unibody

Here Is Why Web Developers Like Me Hate IE6

CFUnited 2010 here I come!

I will be speaking at this years CFUnited conference in Lansdowne Virgina, at the Lansdowne Resort CFUnited is an annual conference based around the Coldfusion, Flex, and AIR languages and platforms. This year I will be co-presenting with Luis Majano on “ColdFusion Powered iPhone Applications” The session will cover how to develop and power iPhone [...]

My iPhone 4 review

hands down the best mobile device I have ever used

WordPress asking for FTP username/password?

Are you annoyed with your wordpress install asking you for your FTP cradentials everytime you try to upgrade a plugin? I know I was.  Thankfully, there’s a simple solution which will save the FTP login (username/password/server) so WordPress stops asking you for them.  Here’s how you do it. Locate your WordPress root diectory and find [...]

timthumb.php returns a 404 Error in WordPress

timthumb is a great little php script that helps create thumbnail images (http://code.google.com/p/timthumb). I’ve used it before, but recently I purchased a wordpress theme that used it, and it wasn’t working. I would get a 404 error when I tired to access the directly via a url like this: theDomain.com/wp-content/themes/theTheme/scripts/timthumb.php?src=/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/moose1.jpg&h=207&w=237&zc=1&q=80 After some digging around in [...]

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