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Installing Titanium on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick for Android Development

If you’re trying to get into mobile development and want to try out one of the frameworks that allows you to use web technologies (HTML, JS, CSS) to make mobile apps, then you might like to try your hands on Titanium. Downloading and installing it to Ubuntu can be a pretty obscure process though, but [...]

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Visualizing blogTO’s reviews with node.js, MongoDB, Ruby, and Google Maps

Background If you’re on the lookout for cool things to do and good places to dine in Toronto then you can seldom go wrong by reading blogTO. Kudos to blogTO staff for their great reviews and their fantastic Best of Toronto series. I really love the Best of Toronto series, it never fails to deliver [...]

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Less Painful Web Development with Sinatra, Slim, Sass, and CoffeeScript

Let’s face it, web development can be a little painful sometimes. In the hands of a good developer, a web app could have really nice and readable source code, but more often than not, the opposite is the case (not even the source, have you ever seen LinkedIn’s URL, oh yuck!). Recap So web applications [...]

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Scraping OCW lecture notes with Python

The Internet is a fantastic place to do a lot of things, including learning new things. One of the more formal ways to learn on the web is by following a structured course via MIT’s Open CourseWare project. However, the one gripe I have about OCW is that the course pages don’t have a “download [...]

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Setting up static DHCP in your home WAN

In a previous post, I commented on how I was having trouble opening SSH connection to another computer in my WAN by using hostnames only. After coming up with a quick hacky solution to the problem I decided to investigate the reason why I cannot use hostnames. D’oh, of course I cannot use hostnames, my [...]

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