Mobile app – part 2

Ok- so after going to a phonegap SF meetup tonight– I got super excited and needed to get something done tonight. I needed to get something small done since I only had about 3 hours. Goal: Generate & show QR code on iphone simulator Started by following this tutorial on embedding a map: Building your …

Mobile app experimentation

Everyone tells me that two fields are rather hot right now in design: UX (User experience) and Mobile design. So, in the two weeks I took off for the holidays, I figured I’d do some dappling in some mobile app creation starting with a simple iPad game. I want to document some of my thoughts …

Simple WordPress adjustments

Again, here’s a post for my own reference. Here’s a list of common wordpress theme adjustments. Disable wordpress from auto adding/removing p tags Studiograsshopper: WordPress Editor – disabling wpautop() Change category order (drag-and-drop) Select Category Order and Taxonomy Terms Order by NSP Code

Augmented Reality – Test 1

I just got an augmented reality demo to work! It was really easy – Just one afternoon of work. To try it out you need: A webcam, a printout of this page. Click on this link and hold up your printout to your webcam in order to play with the demo.

I pretty much followed this video tutorial by The Flash Blog. It describes how to use the FLAR and Papervision 3d toolkits with Flex to detect a symbol in a video feed and map a 3D model to its plane. I just adapted his tutorial to Flash. (I’ll post my .FLA shortly)

PHP register new user

So I’m continuing on my user account management quest. Yesterday and today I added the ability to register as a new user. It’s still very rudimentary- the registration fields are not checked for validity (so more than one user can have the same user name) but I feel great that I’m making progress. Try it …

PHP user login test

A huge step for me in programming- I got a simple user authentication to work through php. It took some stretching and “feeling my way through the dark” but I got something that requires a login and logout and it seems to work. The SQL database stuff was a bit of a fanagle since it …

How to tar files

tar -cf ILoveHomework.tar Homework3 Comments: * The c tells tar to create a new tar file * The f tells tar to name it ILoveHomework.tar * You have to supply the .tar extension in the command. This command creates a new file in the parent directory named ILoveHomework.tar (of course, you may call it anything …