A few enhancements for iOS
by leon on January 2, 2012
Ever since the first iPhone came out I have been in love with the platform, however a few missing features are really starting to annoy me. I’m sure I’m not the first, and won’t be the last to suggest some (…)
Starting Out
by leon on January 2, 2012
This summer marks 4 years since I graduated form Birmingham City University with a bachelors degree in MultiMedia Technology. Since then, I’ve worked for a number of companies including the University that I graduated from. In that time I have (…)
Installing Memcached for MAMP PRO 1.9 running php 5.3.2 on OSX
by leon on June 30, 2011
After a few tedious hours of trying to install memcached for Mamp on my 10.6.8 based Mac, I finally found a solution. This has been sourced from a number of places and I hold no warrant for it working for (…)
Sendgrid and CodeIgniter
by leon on May 29, 2011
I’ve recently been working on a new project that focuses around the sending of email for marketing purposes – not a newsletter project, but something a bit more advanced. Without going into too much detail, the system allows users to (…)
HydraHack
by leon on March 13, 2011
Just a quick blog post to promote HydraHack, organised by Tom Martin (also of @383project fame). HydraHack is a monthly meetup for web developers in Birmingham, who enjoy getting together and making things. If you’re Birmingham based, you should pop along, (…)
Hello World
by leon on March 13, 2011
I’ve decided to move things around a bit with regards to the name of the blog, and the hosting solution (more on that in a later post). After all this blog is all about me, and the code that I (…)
Beanstalk Command Line Interface
by leon on February 12, 2011
It’s fair to say that we love a bit of Beanstalk (affiliate link, gets you 10% off) at @383project. I’ve built tools to help you integrate with Geckoboard, display Growl notifications of your commits and a webapp for deploying and checking (…)
CloudControl vs phpFog
by leon on January 15, 2011
When I first saw phpFog announced a while back I was pretty excited – a fully managed and scalable cloud hosting solution built from the ground up for php. Whilst waiting for a beta invite, I came across CloudControl – (…)
Syncing CodeBox via DropBox
by leon on January 8, 2011
CodeBox by Vadim Shpakovski was one of the first apps that I downloaded from the new Mac App Store. The app features tagging and smart groups which allow you to use a combination of syntax mode and tags to keep your (…)
Beanstalk on your iPhone
by leon on January 6, 2011
Forget the Mac AppStore, something far more interesting got released today- MagicBean, the first proper Beanstalk native iOS app. The £1.79 app, built by Birmingham based Web and iOS developer Andrew Yates allows you to view your Repos, see the (…)