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Fingertips is a small high-end design and development team for web, iPhone, iPad, and Mac OS X application.

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Fingertips is a high-end design and development team for web, iPhone, iPad, and Mac OS X.

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class DOMNodeList
  include Enumerable

  def each
    length.times { |i| yield item(i) }
  end
end

doc = webView.mainFrameDocument
p document.querySelector('meta[name=viewport][content*=width]')

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Adding the following to /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-autoindex.conf makes browsing Apache’s auto-generated index pages a lot easier on an iOS device which can be handy while testing:

  IndexHeadInsert "<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=640,initial-scale=1\">"

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Sadly, the otherwise fine Typotheque web font service is hosted on AWS EC2 
instances in the us-east datacenter instead of on a proper CDN like CloudFront.

This means it’s really going to slow down page loading for your visitors if 
they’re not inside the US.

Here’s a traceroute to wf.typotheque.com from Amsterdam:

thijs@mbp:office$ traceroute wf.typotheque.com
traceroute to typotheque-1610870073.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com (174.129.38.35), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets

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#!/bin/bash

# Adds images to the iOS Simulator 'Saved Photos' album

# Originall from http://ofcodeandmen.poltras.com/2008/11/04/adding-pictures-to-the-simulator/

# You might have to change the simPath and you probably have to remove the contennt of the 'PhotoData' 
# directory before the added photos can be found. Note that this overwrites existing images.

simPath="$HOME/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/4.2/Media/DCIM/100APPLE"

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<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="movie.swf">
  <param name="movie" value="movie.swf">
  <img src="https://si1.twimg.com/profile_images/886948653/Avatar3_reasonably_small.png" alt="Flash alternative">
</object>

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Testing

Automated testing (even though still not widely used by Objective-C developers) would make 
refactoring much easier, faster and safer. Good test coverage would also allow maintenance 
to be done and new features to be added without first having to fully investigate the 
function of all parts of the codebase and the way these parts fit together. This especially 
applies when work is contracted out to developers other than those who originally created 
the application.

The lack of a comprehensive automated test suite is a real disadvantage. Adding one is 

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One of the projects I recently worked on is a mobile gallery for Viewbook, a professional 
web-based portfolio tool for artists and photographers. Here’s a video introducing the new viewer:

http://www.viewbook.com/weblog/2011/03/17/new-mobile-galleries-for-ipad-iphone-and-android/

What’s remarkable is that we’ve been able to create a web-based viewer with the same fluidity and 
responsiveness as a native iPad or iPhone app. You can try it for yourself with this demo version:

http://stuff.vandervossen.net/temporary/viewbook/dist/test.html

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