Great video summarizing what it takes to make money on the iPhone AppStore http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FtWWTllCrg I think the key ingredient here was just persistence.
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steve918
Impressive open source Flash implementation in Javascript. Mind blowing: http://paulirish.com/work/gordon/demos/ via @elliottcable
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steve918
Flashing led mind control widget
Ok so maybe I’m still working on the mind control part, but I’m going to figure out how Apple does it and just emulate that. The flashing led part I have got down though.
I had the opportunity to take a Eagle CAD workshop given by the local Dorkbot group. It turned out to be a blast. Probably the best $35 I’ve ever spent – seriously it was only $35 and I got 6+ hours of instruction and three copies of the circuit board I designed!
Below is a picture of the CAD drawing of the circuit board. It’s should appear pretty close to scale on your screen. It is just a Atmel attiny13 micro-controller powering a RGB led. Which is pretty similar to my RGB nightlight, but with much cheaper parts and a better footprint.
One other interesting bit: I don’t own a AVR programmer, I’m actually using my Arduino compatible board running mega-isp to program it.
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steve918
RGB Arduino Nightlight
I recently started playing with the Arduino micro-controller platform and I thought for my first project I should make something easy, but fun and functional.
I posted a ton of photos showing the construction. I purchased all of the materials at Craftwarehouse and the Arduino board from Modern Device. The RGB LED and DC barrel jack I got at Radio Shack and the power source is a recycled 9v wall wart that was for an old RC radio.
An LED powered nightlight is perfect for a child’s room because it has a long life, consumes very little power and most importantly it doesn’t get hot!
I had to turn it off the first night I put it in my son’s room because he wouldn’t go to sleep. Instead he stayed up saying: ‘Oooh, it’s blue.’ ‘Oooh, it’s greeeeeeen.’
steve918
Discovery: ~/.ssh/config
I’m probably the last one to know about this gem, but it sure has made my life easier. I have like 4 or 5 random ssh keys to keep track of that map to various users on various systems. Up until know this has meant passing the write key file with the -i option to SSH, but no more; ~/ssh/config makes life much easier. All you have to do is define which sites go with which user and key and ding ding life is good.
Host example.com
User root
IdentityFile ~/ec2/example.pem
Host example2.com
User gitosis
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
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luke
umm, yeah. you’re the last to know.
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Ben
I knew about Host in .ssh but I never connected the dots. Useful!
steve918
HTTP Client 'Web View' – My OSCON FOSS contribution
I’ve been using HTTP Client for testing HTTP requests for some time, but I’ve needed to be able to view the response as rendered in the browser on occasion. This is especially true when working with Django errors as they are very rich HTML content.
So since I’m at OSCON I thought it would be a good time scratch that itch while giving something back.
Pretty simple hack, but infinitely useful for me personally. Hopefully someone else will find it useful as well.
So here it is in all it’s glory. It’s compiled for Mac-Intel/Leopard.
Download:
HTTP Client – with ‘Web View’
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gabe
I have a fork on github that adds an option to turn off certificate validation (for testing with dev https boxes), and fixes a “double” escaping issue.. if you put up your changes somewhere I can submit some patches…
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Brad Choate
Why thank you — this has been on my own to-do list.
steve918
iPhone market size
I’m not sure who’s pulling numbers out of their hind quarters, but someone is terribly off, these estimates seem radically different.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/131730-how-much-profit-is-apple-making-from-the-app-store
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George
Your presentation on
http://www.slideshare.net/steve918/in-app-purchase
is very nice!
There is only one thing I’m missing:
the third alternative using InAppPurchase!
1. the self contained model unlocks existing features/data
2. the downloadable content model uses additional server-side logic and application
for verifying the transfer
3. the third alternative with the most usefulness would be:
— InAppPurcase like the self contained model, and
— the iPhone App downloads additional content
symply from an FTP-server and uses this in the future
(without serverside logic!)Why did you not described this third alternative of using InAppPurchase?
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steven
The reason why this isn’t as useful as number 2 is you can’t protect your downloadable data or verify the purchase receipt on a backchannel with Apple. Although your method is easier to implement it’s incomplete imho.
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Red65
I’ll have to trust the experts here, but it doesn’t seem to me a likely prospect for any theory. ,
steve918
Expendable
The company I work for, SourceForge sent me this today. I think they are trying to tell me something.
Apparently a reference to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshirt_(character)
steve918
UPDATE: P2 Theme hacking
UPDATE:
There is something wrong with the code that I merged, I haven’t taken the time to figure out exactly what happened, but I’m going to try to get it fixed and post an update in the next few days. I wasn’t expecting this kind of response and I’m sorry to keep everyone waiting so long for such a simple change.
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I’ve had a lot of requests regarding the new theme an how to add titles to your p2 theme so here it is. It’s not the most elegant thing in the world, but it gets the job done for me.
The code diff for those interested:
http://steve918.files.wordpress.com/p2diff.txt
The diff applied to the current SVN version of p2.
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Monsieur de Feu
Hello,
I don’t know if I screwed up something but it seems that when you edit a post, the new content is also applied to the title. You got the same problem?
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steven
Hmm, seems I may have missed something when I merged with the latest version. I’ll give it a look.
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Monsieur de Feu
Thanks! Let us know if you get to figure what’s wrong!
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tom
this is a great hack. could you please publish the updated version as Monsieur de Feu requested? thanks in advance
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Jere
Can I post code tags in your comments?
Applying your patch – problem is with entry.php
patching file style.css
Hunk #6 succeeded at 855 (offset 14 lines).
patching file entry.php
Hunk #1 FAILED at 5.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file entry.php.rej
patching file post-form.php
Here’s the contents of entry.php.reg:
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*** 5,11 ****- ID, 'display_title') == true ) the_title("",""); ?>
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Jere
Nevermind – it seems they have implemented your changes with along with an option in the official release as off 1.0.4 – so no wonder the patch failed after I updated – and all but the entry.php code looks just like yours – so congrats, I guess!
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Jere
Take that back – your patch was actually a lot nicer IMHO, they didn’t include the title field on the frontpage form and put the titles in instead of tags – but that’s easier to fix – anyway, thanks for posting your work!
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asocinfo
I am using your version of the P2 theme and I also have the problem described by Monsieur de Feu. When you fix the problem, PLEASE let us know. Thanks in advance.
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jon
Hey guys, this is awesome, but I can’t seem to get this patched with 1.0.4 – could someone post the appropriate changes? (I think Jere’s — from 4:18 on May 11 — are for the previous version?)
Thanks in advance!
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Dubber
Brilliant. That’s much appreciated. Exactly what I was looking for.
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Paraksaber
but….what if you dont want to show the titles….
what about beckend?
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Rishi
Hey Steven and other P2 modifiers.
I tried implementing the version of P2 above (the diff applied to the SVN version) on my site: http://rickikumar.com
I’ve noticed two things:
1.) Whenever I type a title, from the front end and check the post through the administration panel, the title ends up being the content (just like the regular P2).
2.) Whenever I hit submit, the title doesn’t get carried down to the “Recent Updates” section with the tags/content through AJAX.Are these known problems? I’ve not modified any of the code myself and am strictly using the files from the link above. I’ve tried my luck with the “Display titles” feature (under Prologue Options) both on and off, and neither have worked.
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Nemo
Any luck with this? It seems like you’re not working on it anymore, are you?
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steven
Now days p2 version 1.1 supports nice looking titles and fixes pretty much any gripes I had with v1.0
steve918
Nice Quote
“You need a framework? What is this, a framework? You don’t need a framework. They told you you need this. You don’t need this. You need a painting, not a frame.” — Klaus Kinski
Brad 11:11 am on November 20, 2009 Permalink |
That is an awesome project… Now I need to get a Arduino and make something.
luke 11:54 am on November 20, 2009 Permalink |
that’s cool!