ZoomFloppy is an ingenious contraption by Nate Lawson which lets you connect real Commodore disk drives via USB to modern computers. It allows you to read and write old floppy disks from drives like the 1541, 1571, 1581 and several others. ZoomFloppy itself is a board with a USB connector (which also acts as the … Read more
In this series I’ll show you how to create Popovers on iPad. They’re fairly easy to create once you get the hang of the inner workings of the UIPopoverController. I’ll show you how to create basic Popover in code and in your Storyboard, and we’ll discuss how you can retrieve data from a Popover when … Read more
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
