I've recently been proof of concepting a new idea for work. It involves local and external access to MySQL servers. While transitioning from local development to a Vagrant VM I discovered the VM couldn't access my host local MySQL server. Googling turned up some obvious answers, find my.cnf and remove…
I participated in MUDJAM on Itch.io last year around this time, putting together a very simple, low feature deliverable, BerkMud. If the title doesn't tell you, it was How to Train Your Dragon themed. It wasn't my first foray into building a mud but I wanted to do something new…
Not a real technical post but still corresponding to something I've recently had a hand in (or two, writing roughly 25k lines in two weeks)... Carsforsale.com released our first incarnation of a consumer facing (for all you car buyers out there) Android application. Check it out!
First, this is a condensed version of a well written post that can be found here. I'm posting this as reference for myself and for those of you who just want the nuts and bolts. I was recently working on an incomplete project that leveraged CKEditor for a WYSIWYG editor.
Android AssetsAndroid devices come in all shapes and sizes and display resolutions. This means providing uniform assets across devices is tedious and somewhat complicated. Google created a special type of unit, dp (density pixel), to make dealing with assets easier. This unit generalizes all various display densities into a single…
Lacking time to write a full fledged post, I'll only mention the quick tidbit I want to keep track of. Others might also find value in it: Using the yo generator, angular-fullstack, I wanted to add Twitter's Typeahead.js package via bower. If all of this is greek to you, don't…