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A few enhancements for iOS

leon — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:29:06 +0000

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 (…)

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Starting Out

leon — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:22:05 +0000

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 (…)

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Installing Memcached for MAMP PRO 1.9 running php 5.3.2 on OSX

leon — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:00:26 +0000

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 (…)

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Sendgrid and CodeIgniter

leon — Sun, 29 May 2011 17:16:40 +0000

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 (…)

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HydraHack

leon — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:52:04 +0000

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, (…)

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Hello World

leon — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:44:27 +0000

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 (…)

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Beanstalk Command Line Interface

leon — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:01:46 +0000

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 (…)

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CloudControl vs phpFog

leon — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:55:01 +0000

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 – (…)

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Syncing CodeBox via DropBox

leon — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:32:13 +0000

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 (…)

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Beanstalk on your iPhone

leon — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 21:10:19 +0000

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 (…)

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