For some reason there was an anomaly in one of our metric last night and it was ruining a lot of our graphs readability. The data was correct and we are looking into the issue but it was anomalous and so high that it was hurting mean, mean_90, etc. So I needed to find a… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Web Development
Audible Daily Deal RSS feed
I have now made available an RSS feed for the audio book deal that Audible publishes every day: Audible Daily Deal RSS feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/AudibleUsDailyDeal). I have also added it to the US iOS & Android Amazon Kindle Deals of the Day applications that I built. I know that they’re not technically Kindle deals but I… Read more »
Opening external URLs in Safari with PhoneGap applications on iOS
After much trial & error, I figured out how to do this on iOS 6, PhoneGap/Cordova 2.5.0 and jQuery 1.9.1 OpenAllWhitelistURLsInWebView doesn’t matter. Setting it to true, false or omitting it doesn’t seem to have any bearing on the result. I set a target of _system on the href, like so: <a target=”_system” href=”http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B009CZICQ8″> I… Read more »
And for Amazon UK, the Kindle Daily Deals RSS feed (and Android App)
After the US and France versions (and soon a German version), I created an Android Application to monitor the Amazon.co.uk Kindle Deal of the Day and a: RSS feed for Amazon.co.uk Kindle Daily Deals
Flux RSS pour l’Offre Éclair Kindle d’Amazon.fr
En supplément de mon application Android Offre Éclair Kindle, je publie desormais, quotidiennement un flux RSS que vous trouverez ici: Flux RSS pour l’Offre Éclair Kindle d’Amazon.fr
Kindle Daily Deals / Kindle Deals of the Day RSS feed
I built a new syndication/RSS feed to list the Kindle Deals (all four of them, currently and the goldbox deal of the day as well). I am sure some of you will find it interesting: New RSS Kindle Deals Daily feed!
Some great Twitter Bootstrap 2.x resources [Updated]
New and of interest: Twitter Bootstrap 2.2.0/ Previously, previously: Great Bootstrap based date range picker and a date picker Datagrid, select/combobox, pill-box, search, spinner for Twitter Bootstrap Marketplace on which you’ll find nice Bootstrap based designs Great Twitter Bootstrap themes Now that jQuery UI & Twitter Bootstrap selectors no longer collide, you can apply a… Read more »
Getting an Oauth2 token for GitHub, command line
If you’re looking to use the GitHub API outside a web application, you’ll need to generate an OAuth 2 token. GitHub provides a good way to add a non web app to your account. It’s done with a curl, command-line: curl https://api.github.com/authorizations \ –user “myuser” \ –data ‘{“scopes”:[“user”],”note”:”GitHub Stars to Bookmarks”}’ which will ask you… Read more »
Open in Sublime Text 2 from Finder Toolbar
I made a quick toolbar button to open a file or directory in Sublime Text 2 from the Mac OS X Finder toolbar. Download it there: http://bit.ly/rJyBJp and drag and drop to your toolbar.
Showing Console console.log output and Javascript errors with PhoneGap on Android/Eclipse
While one would expect console.log() messages to show up in the Eclipse console tab (which shows the Android emulator being launched), they actually show up in the LogCat tab, a mechanism for collecting and viewing system debug output on Android. However the LogCat tab/windows is not shown by default on Eclipse. In order to show… Read more »