jQuery ajax loading widget

by leon on October 14, 2009

Even though i’ve been using jQuery to make web apps for quite a while, this simple function passed me by until quite recently. When loading data asynchronously, the end user doesn’t get any feedback that anything is actually happening (unless (…)

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Curry Goat Recipe

by leon on October 3, 2009

Ok, so this post isn’t anything to do with iPhones or web development but it still belongs on this blog. I decided to share my simple Curry Goat recipe with you all. In my family Curry Goat is a traditional (…)

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CodeIgniter iPhone Push Notifications

by leon on July 31, 2009

I have written a wrapper in CodeIgniter for the Prowl PHP API. It allows you to easily send Push Notifications to an iPhone by calling a simple function. Prowl is a Growl client for the iPhone. Notifications from your Mac (…)

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I’m sorry flcodr

by leon on July 15, 2009

A bit more than a year ago I launched flcodr. It was designed to be a way for me to learn PHP and also organise my actionscript snippets. I decided to open this up to the world so that people (…)

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Essential tools for Web Dev/Design on a Mac

by leon on June 7, 2009

It’s no suprise – i’m a BIG Apple fan. I own an iPhone, iMac, MacBook and Apple TV. It’s not just the design and aesthetics that I love but the whole UI and user experience aswell as the great software (…)

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Really simple jQuery alerts

by leon on June 6, 2009

Over the last few month’s I have been using jQuery more and more in my web projects to do everything from style forms to adding interactivty to lists via drag and drop. In this post I will share with you (…)

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I’ll see you there!

by leon on May 30, 2009

At Flash Camp Birmingham that is: I don’t really need to say more than that I don’t think. It promises to be a great day out and hopefully i’ll have a new version of flCodr up for then!!

Use your iPhone as a wireless speaker

by leon on April 20, 2009

This post will show you how to use your iPhone as a wireless speaker so that you can stream your iTunes library (or any application) to your iPhone. (This will only work within Wi-Fi range of your computer running iTunes) This set (…)

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WordPress as the next Social Networking platform?

by leon on April 9, 2009

Question : Can WordPress be used as the next social networking platform? Answer: Yes. OK, maybe you want a bit more detail and at least some proof of my exorbitant claims. That proof will be in the form of a (…)

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How I find new music using my iPhone

by leon on March 4, 2009

Over the weekend I updated my iTunes library and I now have over 23,482 songs. Due to my iPhone having only 8GB of storage space there was no way that I could have all that music with me all of the (…)

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