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Creating calendars and events using EventKit on iOS 6+ 8 Mar 2013 | 03:00 pm
I know calendar in iOS is not the most essential part. Although, I think this part of iOS is not covered in many tutorials and a lot of them are for old iOS version using already deprecated methods an...
Raspberry Pi's load on a 7-segment display 28 Jan 2013 | 01:00 am
I believe that Raspberry Pi is ideal device to test some distributed computing techniques and therefore I wanted to somehow quickly keep track of multiple devices without turning on my computer. I gu...
Creating .mbtiles DB for iOS MapBox from hi-res map image 14 Jan 2013 | 10:00 pm
Sometimes I'm surprised how great software/tools/apps you can get and use for free. One of them is MapBox iOS SDK made by MapBox. It's great for custom online maps with hosting on their own severs and...
Reading emails from gmail.com via IMAP in PHP 5 Dec 2012 | 05:00 am
Since I'm a freelancer (unemployed) I work with a friend of mine on a few smaller websites. Recently I was trying to make some automatic payment processing. Basically, e-banking sends you an email fo...
Unit testing GAE apps in Python 31 Oct 2012 | 04:00 pm
For my first iOS app (I'll provide link when it's published on App Store) I wanted to make some decent backend. I chose Google App Engine for several like scalability, very good latency worldwide, hos...
How to make "Open in Sublime2" on MAC 16 Oct 2012 | 02:00 am
I like Sublime Text 2 and I've been using it recently for almost all development. Well, after watching these tutorials I like it even more. Just one very timesaving thing isn't very clear. How to mak...
libwebsockets: Simple WebSocket server 6 Sep 2012 | 04:00 pm
if you're trying to use libwebsockets you probably want to build your own awesome WebSocket server. I've already made a tutorial on how to make a web server using libwebsocket and finally now I'm goi...
Compiling APD for PHP 5.4 13 Aug 2012 | 01:00 pm
APD (Advanced PHP Debugger) is a very useful PHP module for profiling and testing PHP scripts. I don't know why it's not maintained any more and therefore you can't even install it easily using PECL. ...
libwebsockets: Simple HTTP server 6 Aug 2012 | 04:00 pm
I was quiet surprised that there aren't many web socket libraries for C. I made a small research and found this nice list of various implementations on wikipedia . It says that there are only 2 implem...
libwebsockets: Compiling libraries and projects 6 Aug 2012 | 03:00 pm
I think libwesockets is the only pretty much easy to use websocket in written in pure C (that can be used as web server as well by the way). The only disadvantage is that its compilation and usage is ...
