My friend Scott McWhirter, who heads up the Vancouver Perl Monger’s group, asked me yesterday to give a last-minute talk on anything in particular at tonight’s Vancouver.pm meeting. He wasn’t exactly begging, but I know he’s short on speakers this month, and he wanted something interesting to show. So I decided I’d talk about building [...]
Have a list of several hundred addresses to get coordinates for? Perl to the rescue!
I recently wanted to try my hand at writing a little iPhone app for helping students find University grant funding. It turns out to be a bit more difficult than I’d expected, but part of the app was to be a listing of all the available universities near the student. This, of course, would involve [...]
Build process experiments with PhoneGap
I’ve made some quick updates on the train this morning, and ended up creating a Bourne shell script in the iPhone directory of PhoneGap for renaming a brand-new PhoneGap fork to whatever your project is called. This also works with the previous changes I made to my buildprocess branch, meaning that when you’re done, you [...]
