I bought an iPhone (unlocked UK model from eBay) back in April and unlike any other phone I’ve ever owned, I can honestly say that the novelty has yet to wear off. This is in no small part due to some of the brilliant applications available from Apple’s App Store. Here are my ten favourite iPhone apps: Top 10 iPhone Apps: Home Screen Sudoku If I had to pick a favourite app, I would probably say the paid version of Sudoku from... 

Today, I upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.7, and while most of the upgrade went smoothly, I did notice that my Twitter plugin wasn’t showing new tweets anymore. I initially thought maybe it was a caching issue, or I had run out of API calls or something, but I returned hours later to find it in the same state. I tweaked with the function call to see if changing it would refresh the cache but nothing I tried made it work. I looked for... 

To follow up on yesterday’s post on the different Irish companies that provide shared web hosting, I decided to put together a similar piece on Irish companies that offer domain name registration services. I have listed the companies in alphabetical order, and the minimum criteria for listing is that the company provides .ie domain name registration. Unless otherwise specified, prices are per year and include VAT @ 21.5%. Please note... 

On a previous iteration of my blog I wrote an article on the different Irish companies that offer shared web hosting services. Many people have asked since about this article and I said I would put it back up once I got my blog sorted out. As I have decided not to port over my previous blog posts, I decided to create a new version of this guide. The services offered and prices listed in this article were taken directly from each service... 

In November 2008, a tutorial I wrote titled “Implement a Facebook photo album using the Flex SDK” was published on IBM’s developerWorks website. The tutorial begins by introducing the Facebook platform and explaining how a Facebook application is created. It then moves on to the open source Flex SDK and the MXML markup language and ActionScript scripting language that are used to develop Flex applications. At this point,... 

Back in July 2008 I wrote a tutorial titled “Use Ext, Aptana and AIR to build desktop applications” that has been published on IBM’s developerWorks website. The tutorial explores the concepts of the Aptana IDE (Integrated Development Environment), the Ext JavaScript library and the Adobe AIR platform, before walking through the process of setting up a development environment for building applications using these technologies.... 

In order to develop PL/SQL applications on Oracle XE, we are going to need to install a web server (Apache) and a PL/SQL gateway for Apache called mod_owa. On a regular Oracle Application Server you would probably be using Oracle HTTP Server (a modified Apache) and mod_plsql, amd you should also be able to follow my future tutorials if you have this type of setup. Once again I will be assuming throughout this guide that you have... 

In this tutorial, I will be looking at the basics of Oracle databases, namely, the creation of database tables and inserting of data rows. I will be showing you two ways of interacting with the database: Via Oracle’s Application Express Web-Based Interface Via Oracle’s Command-Line Application, SQL*Plus For the purpose of this tutorial, I will assume that you have followed my previous tutorial, which guides you through... 

Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (I will refer to this as Oracle XE from here on) is a basic version of the Oracle Database 10g that is freely available for development, deployment and distribution. It is an excellent entry-level database for learning Oracle and PL/SQL and will run on most modern PCs and laptops. I will be using Oracle XE in the majority of the Oracle tutorials and sample applications on this website, so it is...