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Simple Amazon S3 Backup script for Apache & MySQL

Dean — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:37:19 +0000

While setting up some dedicated servers at the office I needed a quick and easy way to backup each server to an offsite location. After looking around for a while and trying some of the existing S3 backup scripts I couldn’t find anything that satisfied my needs (Apache htdocs & MySQL databases). So after playing around [...]

CakePHP Session Troubleshooting

Dean — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:43:00 +0000

I use CakePHP on a day to day basis for project ranging from a single controller with a couple of views through to projects with large amounts of Controllers, Models, Views and Relationships. This morning I was trying to build a simple Google Analytics component (which I will release as soon as it is done) and [...]

PHP Developer Postion at Big Click Studios

Dean — Sat, 23 May 2009 02:19:08 +0000

Are you young, easy going and looking for a PHP Developer role on the NSW Central Coast? If so then Big Click Studios may be the place for you! We are looking for a PHP developer to work with us on some new and exciting projects that we have coming up and to be part of our [...]

Twitter API CakePHP Component with Search API

Dean — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:14:45 +0000

Why did I do it? While working on a client project I needed a way to heavily integrate with Twitter for an interactive competition. I could have built a quick and dirty script to do this but I knew that I would be dealing with more clients that wanted Twitter integration. What did I do? I built a [...]

RSS Reader (Part 4): Setting up the UITabBar and UITableView with delegates

Dean — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:40:35 +0000

In this installment we will be creating the “framework” for our application, first up we will be creating our UITabBarController and then we will add some ViewControllers to represent our different views. 1. Create a “Window-Based” application template I had originally intended to create the application based on a “Navigation-Based” application template but now I have decided [...]

RSS Reader (Part 3): What we’ll be building and which iPhone SDK features will be covered?

Dean — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:48:54 +0000

Well I have been thinking about what features the RSS Reader tutorial should cover and I have also been getting some requests from readers (if anyone else has a request please feel free to send them through or tweet them to me). I have come up with the following list of features and how we will [...]

Fellow Australian Photographer

Dean — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:41:34 +0000

Recently I have been following Cameron Laird, an Australian Photographer on Twitter. He is a commercial and editorial photographer from Townsville, Australia and he has some amazing photos in his portfolio (check them out over at http://www.cameronlaird.com/). There is some great coverage of the QLD floods from recent years, one of my favourite shots is of [...]

jQuery Plugin: Custom Styled Select Input w/Keyboard Interaction

Dean — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:58:00 +0000

I have been working on a clients project recently and really didn’t like the way the standard selects looked on the page and as we all know they are impossible to style consistently across all browsers. Being a jQuery fan I knew that there must have been an existing plugin to help…but alas there were [...]

RSS Reader (Part 2): Creating a new iPhone Xcode project and setting up your environment

Dean — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:59:35 +0000

This installment will walk you through creating a new Xcode project and getting everything ready to start the coding. The iPhone SDK comes ready to dive in but we need to confiure our SQLite and TouchXML libraries and get our workspace up to scratch! 1. Creating a new Xcode project Start Xcode by clicking the icon in [...]

RSS Reader (Part 1): Getting started with iPhone Development

Dean — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:51:45 +0000

This tutorial series will walk you through the creation of a complete, ready to publish iPhone application. I have chosen to continue the Advanced RSS Reader application but I will be taking a step back and extending on some of the methods explained in those tutorials. When this series is completed you will have learnt (hopefully!) [...]