Facebook is Worse than Illegal Drugs

We’re all on it, we all hate it and yet we keep going back to it. Yes Facebook. The absolute bane of everybody’s life. The best and worst website going. What do I mean? Stand by for details. I suppose I had better justify what I mean when I say Facebook is worse than illegal drugs. Basically, illegal drugs will mostly mess up your life and maybe the lives of those immediately around you, but…

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3 Steps To Success : Social Media Strategy for Photographers

Ever wondered what all the social media hype is all about, but you’re too embarrassed to admit it? Are you the only one of your friends that isn’t on Twitter and you can’t figure out why they’re all wasting their time? Do you end up scratching your head when you hear of some people making money from social media? Let me tell you a secret (ssshhhh – don’t tell anyone) – you’re not the only…

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Multiple RVM gemset with Passenger

I seem to never remember the steps for this procedure (and I’ve needed it a few times already), so I figured I would just write it down here for future reference. We need to give instructions to passenger to load up the right gemset in our application’s directory. .rvmrc file Create an .rvmrc file in the web application’s root directory: [color-box]> touch .rvmrc[/color-box] Create a new gemset [color-box]> rvm gemset create example[/color-box] Edit the .rvmrc…

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Pulling off IP address range filtering with Regex in AWStats

Recently I was tasked to create an extra section in an exisiting AWStats configuration which would basically filter users” IP addresses that are contained in a specific range. In order to do this, I needed to create a new ExtraSection for the administrator to be able to see this list inside the same report used for the website, but in a different section of the report output. ExtraSections in AWStats is a handy feature which…

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Debugging PhoneGap Applications

I recently started developing a mobile application for my MSc Thesis and decided to create a solution that could easily be ported to multiple mobile platforms. Searching around, I stumbled upon PhoneGap. I remembered having read positive things about it a couple of years ago, when I was developing my first mobile application in Android. What PhoneGap essentially does, is expose mobile phone functions through a set of JavaScript APIs and the application’s logic runs…

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