Jay Versluis Thanks to BASIC 7.0’s powerful commands we can load and save arbitrary sections of memory to disk using BLOAD and BSAVE. This was useful for dealing with machine code as well as raw image data. Both commands work on the C128 and Plus/4, but sadly the C64 was lacking in this area. BLOAD and BSAVE … Read more
In this screencast I’ll show you how to make an iPhone storyboard display as an iPad storyboard in Xcode 5.1’s Interface Builder. Under the hood a UIStoryboard is just an XML file, and with a small tweak we can make Xcode display it like an iPad or an iPhone. This is a good strategy if … Read more
Did you know that the Commodore computers had a built-in clock? It wasn’t an exact science, and it didn’t show the date, but it was able to display a 24hr clock. It did this by counting how many seconds your machine was switched on, accessible in two variables TI and TI$ (short for TIME). TI$ … Read more
Sometimes you need to change some text in a MySQL table. For example, imagine you want to correct a spelling mistake or a reference in all your WordPress posts without having to change them one by one. Here’s how to do it with a raw SQL command. This works only on a single table – … Read more
I’ve used the WordPress Importer on many occasions – most of which gave me more grief than results. Usually I end up with a white screen telling me that there was an “Internal Server Error”. It basically means that something went wrong, but nobody knows what it was – and there is no way to … Read more
I’ve just posted this tweak in the WordPress P2 forum to help a user and thought I’d add it here too before I forget what I did. To swap the post title and date in P2 we’ll first grab a reference to each element, then we move one up and the other down. Like so: … Read more
In this series I’ll show you how to use iCloud in your iOS apps. We’ll discuss how to setup Xcode and your app, including App ID and Provisioning Profiles and I’ll demonstrate how to use all three flavours of iCloud: Key Value Storage, Document Storage and iCloud with Core Data. The rest of this series … Read more
The NC10’s integrated Synaptics Touch Pad works out of the box in CentOS 6, both under GNOME and KDE. No drivers or patches requried. But I remember that when it was running Windows XP I could “tap” the pad instead of clicking the dedicated key (that loud CLACK noise annoys the neighbours). How can we … Read more