If you’ve ever developed using Javascript, you should know that console.log is probably your most important tool. Unfortunately, not all web browsers support it (e.g. IE8 only supports it when Developer Tools is activated). Here’s a way of checking to see if console.log exists and if it does, go ahead …
For some reason in IE8, I couldn’t access the built-in JSON global object in Javascript within an iframe. I’m not sure if this issue exists in other browsers, but the fix is to specify the top property first, and then the JSON object: top.JSON.stringify(({json: ‘object’})) See jquery.com
Ran into a problem today with attempting to manipulate textPath SVG elements within the DOM. Consider the following, where the variable svg is an SVG element in your DOM: var g = document.createElementNS(“http://www.w3.org/2000/svg”, “g”); var label_container = document.createElementNS(“http://www.w3.org/2000/svg”, “text”); var label = document.createElementNS(“http://www.w3.org/2000/svg”, “textPath”); label.setAttributeNS(“http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink”, ‘xlink:href’, ‘#some-path’); label.appendChild(document.createTextNode(“Hello, World!”)); label_container.appendChild(label); …
If you want to prevent the UIWebView from allowing users to scroll the body of your embedded web application, just add the following code: webView.scrollView.bounces = NO; This works very well, especially for any divs that are set to scrollable via the CSS -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch directive. See stackoverflow.com
Running a process that is detached from the terminal is sometimes useful. Case in point, I had to run a database update script remotely via SSH. However, the update script takes a long time (close to an hour) so running it over SSH wouldn’t be practical. Simply being disconnected with …
Had a little bit of trouble doing this because I was getting the following error in the Asterisk console: Ignoring video media offer because port number is zero Ultimately, the issue was that I needed to add allow=h264 to each user in sip.conf. For some reason, adding the allow=h264 to …
If you happen to be using the HTML5 audio tag in your web application that you are displaying via a UIWebView, you may encounter an issue where the audio sound won’t seem to play. For example, let’s say you have the following HTML in your code and are displaying it …
In today’s blog, I’m going to show how I used the Sliding-Pane to create a fairly complete iPhone application. You can download the code here. Background In November, I created a UI component called Sliding-Pane that creates a sliding-type animation on a specific div. The idea came from OSX’s …
Here’s the terminal command to send out an e-mail from a TeraStation (Model #HD-H0.6TGL/R5), assuming you’ve rooted it: tmail -s smtp.dforge.net -t ronaldcs@dforge.net -f terastation@dforge.net -sub “Test” < some_file.txt
If you VPN to work from home (or even VPN to home from work ;-)), you may have issues resolving hostnames. A good way to solve this issue is to use the /etc/resolver folder. If you have DNS set up, you can assign specific domains to be resolved by specific …