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NASA's Rover Curiosity Lands on Mars

First Photos The first image is 64x64 pixels. A 256x256 pixel image came through minutes later. Both images courtesy: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/nasatv/ Posted on Twitter Photo courtesy:...

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Limiting jQuery Mobile Page Size

jQuery Mobile is great for adding mobile functionality and good-looking widgets when developing mobile apps or development. It can also be extended to use your own layouts, design and theme. One...

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Show Error if JavaScript is Disabled

When I write apps and mobile websites using jQuery and/or jQuery Mobile, if I do not have fallback functionality, aka my app/website will not work without jQuery, I tell my user this. JavaScript must...

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PHPinfo Compare

I originally wrote about my phpinfo(); comparison script back in 2010. I'm trying to get better at maintaining my code online, so I've uploaded the source to GitHub. The code will compare two files...

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Disable GateKeeper in Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

Have you updated to Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and noticed how applications downloaded from the web can not be installed on your system? I did when I was trying to install Git and MAMP -- both are...

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Bootstrap has been updated to 2.1.0!

What is Bootstrap? For those web developers who don't know Bootstrap, you should check it out. The project is a HTML5/CSS3/JS framework that allows you to hit the ground running with...

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Ah, the open source licensing issue.

In my office, I manage a team of programmers who develop iPad apps for clients. We use HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, a customized version of jQuery Mobile, PhoneGap and an Objective-C PhoneGap plugin which...

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The iPhone 5S or iPhone 6 will be 1920x1080

This is a personal estimate, but one I hold Apple to say "Why not?" because I'm sure they already planned ahead for this. Their original iPhone, iPhone 3 and iPhone 3G were 320 x 480px . With a...

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How to speed up rsync on your Mac (and stop the dreaded “building file list…”)

UPDATED (2013-08-06): Added notes about requiring Xcode to compile rsync (if compiling is the route you choose). Quick Story I have a 3TB hard drive full of my RAW (.CR2) photography files that I...

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A very brief post on the inflaton particle, or what created the Big Bang

I’ve been completely nerding out with books on cosmology and looking over astrophysics articles recently. As a photographer I’ve been interested in space telescopes and I wanted to share this...

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