Last weekend I attended Barcamp Brighton 3. For the uninitiated like me, a BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.
Tags: 1d, 2d, Aral Balkan, Barcamp, barcodes, Brighton, camera, datamatrix, iphone, Jeremy Keith, Jerome Ribot, macro, Mark Wudden, maxicode, Miscellaneous, Mobile, mobile tagging, open source technologies, phone, presentation, QRcode, Rob Douglas, social protocols, Tantek Celik, web applications, web-gliterati
As part of an AIR project that I have been working on with my good friend Rob, we came across the need to parse a number of URLs within the text of a Twitter post. This may not sound too easy at first, but thanks to the prototype property available on JavaScript objects, our task was a relatively simple one.
Tags: HTML, JavaScript, JSON, New Brunswick, online musings, online resource, parseURL, parsing, Rob Douglas, Simon Whatley, tag, Twitter, url, username
Installing PHP is a relatively simple task one would think. Indeed it is simple, but configuring the php.ini isn’t; at least not so on Windows Vista! It is infuriating when such a relatively simple task is made inordinately complicated because of the nuances of Vista permissions. What started out as a 5 minute task took a significant number of hours searching for a suitable answer on Google, and not only by myself.
Tags: administrator, Apache, configuration, configuring, difficulties, Google, installation, Microsoft Vista, Microsoft Windows, MySQL, paths, permissions, PHP, problems, Rob Douglas, solution, solutions, solving, Vista, Windows Vista