Countdown 2.0: Supporting HTML5 Cache
Taking advantage of HTML5 caching in an iPhone Webapp can eliminate the need to employ cumbersome data URLs for standalone or offline style applications.
Taking advantage of HTML5 caching in an iPhone Webapp can eliminate the need to employ cumbersome data URLs for standalone or offline style applications.
Countdown is an iPhone Webapp that implements a simple multi-color timer charting how many days, hours, minutes and seconds are left until a selected target event arrives. For example, this may be a fun (or frustrating) way to count how long you must wait until your next birthday. Built-in events include “Midnight” and “New Year’s”. There is a “Settings” screen that allows you to configure some of the parameters of the program. One of the most interesting configuration elements is a date picker that uses the hardware accelerated “SpinningWheel” from cubiq.org.
Learn how to run a network installation of Fedora 11 using GRUB with a few simple commands.
A hands-on review of Zmanda Recovery Manager 3.0 on Ubuntu Server.
Zmanda brings its robust, well integrated database backup and recovery package to one of the most popular Linux distributions with its latest product release of Zmanda Recovery Manager version 3.0 for MySQL on Ubuntu.
Bash is an important and even critical software project. Yet it’s a shame that the project does not always keep its examples and illustrations up to date or even accurate.
A technical note on using custom Bash script co-processing to generate and sort web access latencies for a user supplied list of hosts. It demonstrates a co-processing scheme that supports multiple, simultaneous co-processes and works in all versions of Bash.
In this how-to, we will step through the process of setting up a Ruby on Rails development environment on Fedora 10 and Fedora 11 Beta.
This tutorial compares the APIs of Yahoo! and Google maps by implementing a simple side-by-side map overlay rendered on a single HTML page. In this tutorial we will describe the details of using each API in JavaScript. Along the way we’ll compare a few of the differences between the two APIs.
Over the past decade open source software has become popular with technology users in India. The benefits of open source - affordability, availability of source code and freedom of choice - have made open source a preferred platform for many innovative Indian organizations and individuals who want to harness the power of high quality software which can be freely adapted to their own requirements.
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