Archive for December, 2008
My Top 10 iPhone Apps
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...
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Twitter for WordPress on 2.7
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...
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Irish Domain Name Registration
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...
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Irish Shared Web Hosting
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...
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Facebook Gallery in Flex
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...
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Use Ext, Aptana and AIR
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...
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Install Apache and mod_owa
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...
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Oracle Database Basics
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: 1.) via Oracle's Application Express Web-Based Interface; and 2.)Via...
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Install Oracle XE
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...
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