I was setting up my MySQL server in my Mac OSX as instructed in their website. As one of the instructions, I have to set the /usr/local/mysql/bin to my PATH. So I went ahead and wrote it in my ~/.bash_profile In…
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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Create a native IPhone/Ipad Mobile App with Ruby from Scratch, Or Android, Or WP7 Or..
I have been wanting to write a mobile app, but learning each platform could potentially eat so much of my free time. I have looked at different alternatives like PhoneGap, Corona SDK and Titanium. But each one just doesn’t fit…
Posted in IPhone
Insert a new Row in Excel using Keyboard
Im doing a very repetitive task in excel today so I thought of perhaps finding a shortcut key for it in Google. So I found this But it is inefficient, until I looked down further, and found this interesting comment,…
Posted in Uncategorized
Bouncing a Ball with HTML 5, a Primer for a Slingshot game
Im still reading the book The Essential Guide to HTML5. Now It is teaching how to bounce a ball. Unfortunately, I did not like its solution of a bouncing ball, so I looked around for a better solution, I saw…
Drawing and Moving an Image with HTML 5
This is a continuation of my journey of learning HTML 5 from the book The Essential Guide to HTML5: Using Games to learn HTML5 and JavaScript Now I am on chapter 2, Drawing a Bouncing Ball. I want to write…
Posted in HTML5, Javascript
Drawing a Gradient with HTML 5
This is a continuation of my journey of learning HTML 5 from the book The Essential Guide to HTML5: Using Games to learn HTML5 and JavaScript Now I want to write the new thing I learned. Drawing gradients. To draw…
Posted in HTML5, Javascript
New Form Validation Feature of HTML 5
This is a continuation of my journey of learning HTML 5 from the book The Essential Guide to HTML5: Using Games to learn HTML5 and JavaScript I like the book so far, it is certainly fun to learn through games.…
Posted in HTML5, Javascript
The Busy Coder’s Guide to Android Development
The Busy Coder’s Guide to Android Development [BUSY CODERS GT ANDROID DEVELOP] Many months ago, I bought these set of books from Commonsware. It is because I find the Android tutorial lack some readability. And I found this mentioned in…
Posted in Android, Uncategorized
HTML5: Redrawing the Canvas
In our previous post Drawing a Dice in an HTML5 canvas, I wrote about how to draw a square and 6 filled circles inside it. This is the continuation of that blog post, but now we want to clear the…
Posted in HTML5, Javascript
Javascript Number Validator
I needed this functionality but almost all the ones I found in the net have some weakness which prompted me to write this code. Maybe some people will it need too so here it is. Javascript, using GeSHi 1.0.8.8 IsNumeric:function(value){…
Posted in Javascript