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/**
 * DUMP
 *
 *	Dumps a variable in a readable form to the console, this is a recursive function
 *	so be careful of nested references that may cause it to overflow... (untested for that)
 *
 *	@v		ANYTHING		[Any variable]
 *	@name		STRING			[The name of the variable, optional, used internally when looping objects and arrays]
 *	@spacing	STRING			[The prefix spacing, used internally when looping objects and arrays]
 */

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Once you have Titanium running, including Command-Line-Interface, this build script can be used with sublime-text to compile and pass to the attached android device.

Note that on windows you will probably need an additional "shell" parameter...

## Useful References

 * https://wiki.appcelerator.org/display/guides/Titanium+Command+Line+Interface
 * http://unbounded.io/post/28394170197/titanium-mobile-develpoment-with-sublime-text-2-and
 * http://www.slideshare.net/cb1kenobi/exploring-the-titanium-cli-codestrong-2012

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Found this little experiment in the depths of one of my projects; I've removed it and dumped it here in case I want it in the future

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/**
 * You can check if a number is a prime by looping the known primes to see if it divides.
 */

// Seed the primes array
var primes = [2,3];
// Start counting up...
myCounter : for(n=5; n<10000; n+=2){
  // Loop the known primes
  for(p=0, l=primes.length; p<l; p++){

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MySQL - Group by grid-square

Inspired by the police.uk crime maps, where they cleverly cluster data together depending on how far zoomed in you are, this MySQL snippet goes a long way to explaining the logic behind such an operation.

A perfect grid

This snippet groups sites to a perfect grid while the police.uk algorithm has some sort of trickery that moves their points about somewhat, looking at their blogs and documentation I would conclude that they have a predefined set of points, each with a catchment area of postcodes. It looks like a whole lot of scraping and manual labour went into their database and quite frankly I don't have the time nor inclination do attempt such a task.

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Sync ./uploads/ with Amazon S3

This is a simple way to Sync a folder with Amazon S3 for a nightly backup - this is all to be done on your server :-)

1 - Install s3cmd

this is for Centos 5.6, see http://s3tools.org/repositories for other systems like ubuntu etc

# Install s3cmd

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/

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Linux - "Open any file" via Keyboard Shortcut

Assign this little shell script to a keyboard shortcut Xfce to open a shell -prompt, then have that file / directory opened by it's native program.

Pretty simple, excellent user-experience!

Thanks to Xfce forum member "ToC" who helped me solve a problem with the script

How to install

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// Build a deep object of some sort
var ob = {
	type: 'windar',
	title: 'Hello World',
	children: [
		{
			type: 'BUTTUN',
			title: 'click me',
		},
		{

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CentOS AMP Server Setup

I think I'd like to write (for fairly perverse reasons) a script that will setup something like this on a CentOS server:

• Got CentOS?
• Got root?
  • Update CentOS
  • Set hostname, timezone etc
  • Install Apache, MySQL, PHP, ImageMagick, S3cmd, Git etc.
• Setup Git with Apache user and pull from github / bitbucket to /var/www/html/

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Restore MySQL from Amazon S3

This is a hands-on way to pull down a set of MySQL dumps from Amazon S3 and restore your database with it

Sister Document - Backup MySQL to Amazon S3 - read that first

1 - Set your MySQL password and S3 bucket, make a temp dir, get a list of snapshots

# Set our variables

export mysqlpass="ROOTPASSWORD"