April 2012
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Appcelerator Errors
I started using Appcelerator’s Titanium a few weeks back. It is a great alternative to Objective-C for making iOS apps, and much easier to pick up, although the error messages could do with some improving.
Error messages regularly raise with Object or File unknown, or the app just crashes on initialise with no error at all. This has been a little frustrating and I have found that using...
September 2011
2 posts
Kuler Colour Helper - Great tool →
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CSS files for Rails Controllers
Whilst working on various different projects using CSS frameworks such as SASS, 960 Grid System and Blueprint I have found overriding with specific files per controller to be a much cleaner process.
Note: I think Rails 3.1 actually does this out of the box
Obviously it is not always necessary to create a new css file for every controller so I needed a way to include the file if it exists. ...
August 2011
2 posts
Just Launched my new website →
TCPServer Error: Address already in use error
This little error has been popping up occasionally in my local rails development environment using the WEBrick server.
I generally just use the default 0.0.0.0 ip address with a different port assigned to it depending on the app I am running. There may be a better way of running local development servers that I don’t know about but this has always been quick and flexible enough for my uses.
As...
June 2011
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Sass Highlighting In Dreamweaver 5.5
I have just spent a good while trying to get highlighting to work in Dreamweaver for SASS.
Various guides show to change Extensions.txt and MMDocumentTypes.xml configuration files as on http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/164/tn_16410.html.
The explanations are all correct but if you are using Dreamweaver 5.5, save some hair pulling and edit the above files in your User Profile AppData / Support.
A...
March 2011
2 posts
“I’ll tell you what’s not fit for purpose… Chicken’s...”
June 2010
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Zend Cache Error – Silverstripe 2.4 admin
After uploading a new site built on Silverstripe 2.4 to my shared host, the following error reared it’s head when trying to access the admin area.
[User Error] Uncaught Zend_Cache_Exception: cache_dir is not writable
After some searching through the Silvstripe forums, I finally ended up at finding a resolved support ticket that showed an easy solution in the mysite/_config.php.
First,...
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Allowed memory size error in Silverstripe
Silverstripe have made great improvements in the memory consumption in version 2.4 but the admin area can still get the frustrating error message.
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted
There are a few options to fix the issue:
In mysite/_config.php - Add ini_set(“memory_limit”, “64M”)
In .htaccess - Add php_value memory_limit 64M
Personally, I...
January 2010
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Web Development Frameworks
After spending time with retro coded content management systems like Drupal, I started getting frustrated with developing. I started reading about web development frameworks on blogs like Sitepoint & Smashing Magazine.
Content Management Systems definitely have there place in the market to quickly build templated websites that you can hand over to clients but web frameworks are now my option...
February 2009
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Acquia - Drupal pumped
We have recently started using the Acquia version of Drupal at work for the past couple of months.
Acquia is the commercially supported version of Drupal backed by the main man himself Dries Buytaert. With a variety of packages available, the support and auto-updates can be very helpful. We have found that even though Drupal is opensource, it can be difficult to recieve the help and support...
November 2008
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Drupal 6 - Page template variables in nodes
I have just completed working on a Drupal project that required a slightly different coding practices to the normal Drupal theme. In order to meet the clients design, the inside pages needed to have the 2nd level of the primary menu defined inside the node.
Normaly, the primary menu is defined in page.tpl.php using:
<?php
print theme('links', $primary_links,array('class'=>'links...