Category Archives: Tutorials

Overcoming Phonegap Memory Limits With Local Storage

Posted on November 16, 2015 by Matt
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During development of Turkey Volume Guessing App, it began to crash at random on the iPad 2. Being a Phonegap app, it was the age old problem of memory limits in Mobile Safari. In this case the app is generating … Continue reading →

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How To Make Android Toxic Hellstew

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Matt
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During the Apple WWDC 2014 keynote this week, CEO Tim Cook brazenly declared the Android mobile platform a “Toxic Hellstew!” Sure the words actually came from This Article, and Cook clearly attributed it to Adrian Kingsley-Hughes of ZDNET. But the … Continue reading →

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Building A JavaScript Debug Console

Posted on August 15, 2007 by Matt

There are plenty of tools to debug JavaScript in your browser. But there are still some cases where good old alert boxes are necessary. Still, sometimes data becomes overwhelming and those alerts become impractical. I recently encountered one of those … Continue reading →

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Tutorial

Posted on July 21, 2004 by Matt

It’s time again for another tutorial. This one was requested by a friend of mine that gets hosed by spam. There’s not much you can do once your address gets out, but there’s plenty you can do to prevent it … Continue reading →

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Tutorial

Posted on June 26, 2004 by Matt

A new tutorial has just been posted. This one addresses a fairly generic technique of using binary strings to keep track of quiz answers. The example is in JavaScript but applies to any language. Even if you don’t have to … Continue reading →

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