Ok, so this post isn’t anything to do with iPhones or web development but it still belongs on this blog. I decided to share my simple Curry Goat recipe with you all. In my family Curry Goat is a traditional dish served at gatherings and parties. A party is not a party unless Curry Goat is involved! Curry Goat can be served with plain white rice or the more traditional rice and peas First of all the pronunciation: Curry Goat, not curried goat or goat curry but curry goat. Also try and extenuate the a in goat, almost like goaawt. It may not sound as if it makes much sense, but that’s...

I have written a wrapper in CodeIgniter for the Prowl PHP API. It allows you to easily send Push Notifications to an iPhone by calling a simple function. Prowl is a Growl client for the iPhone. Notifications from your Mac or Windows computer (see the FAQ) can be sent to your iPhone over push, with a full range of customization and grace you expect. Prowl also features an extensive API, which allows your scripts to integrate beautifully. The API has a PHP version that allows you to integrate this with your web apps. There are two functions and they behave slightly differently; sendPushNotificationSingle($pushEvent,...

A bit more than a year ago I launched flcodr. It was designed to be a way for me to learn PHP and also organise my actionscript snippets. I decided to open this up to the world so that people could share. The site is by no means perfect and it was my plan to rewrite the vast majority of it (which I have started). I have been tied up with other projects and moving house since then and flcodr has taken a bit of a back seat, but now that I have more time I will be able to make flcodr better and into the kind of site that you all will want to keep using, hold tight as it will be worth it!!

It’s no suprise – i’m a BIG Apple fan. I own an iPhone, iMac, MacBook and Apple TV. It’s not just the design and aesthetics that I love but the whole UI and user experience aswell as the great software that gets attracted to the platform. Sure, there are other products that work or have the same features as Apple do – but they don’t seem to be able to pull it off in the same way. So enough of the usual Apple fanboy babble, onto this post which is about three essential tools for anyone doing any Web Development on a Mac. I have included a local server, code editor...

Over the last few month’s I have been using jQuery more and more in my web projects to do everything from style forms to adding interactivty to lists via drag and drop. In this post I will share with you my simple jQuery alert plugin. About Simple jQuery alert that is just that – really simple Use it to give feedback to your users when they have updated a page for example. Features There are three types of alert: Success Error Information   The alert can fade away after a specified amount of time The alert can be clicked to fade away Usage Include the CSS and plugin files in your...

At Flash Camp Birmingham that is: I don’t really need to say more than that I don’t think. It promises to be a great day out and hopefully i’ll have a new version of flCodr up for then!!

This post will show you how to use your iPhone as a wireless speaker so that you can stream your iTunes library (or any application) to your iPhone. (This will only work within Wi-Fi range of your computer running iTunes) This set is up uses the following: MacBook (2008 model) iPhone 3G 8Gb (Jailbroken) iTunes Airfoil Airfoil speakers touch Remote app Backgrounder (via Cydia) To get this to work you will need to Jailbreak your device, if you are scared of doing so – don’t be. There are plenty of posts around to help you. The reason that you need to Jailbreak is so that you can...

Question : Can Wordpress be used as the next social networking platform? Answer: Yes. OK, maybe you want a bit more detail and at least some proof of my exorbitant claims. That proof will be in the form of a brand new flCodr.com – a site designed to share and submit snippets of actionscript code. Using nothing more than Wordpress, off the shelf plugins and a bit of theme hacking I will show you how to create your own social site using Wordpress. About a year ago I released flCodr to the world. The idea was pretty simple; as a Flash developer I was always writing and re-using snippets of code....

Over the weekend I updated my iTunes library and I now have over 23,482 songs. Due to my iPhone having only 8GB of storage space there was no way that I could have all that music with me all of the time, but with a few apps I don’t need to physically carry my music with me. The iPhone has opened up a host of ways to find, share and play music while on the move. This post is about some of the tools that I use to achieve musical bliss. Shoutcast This is a free radio app that features thousands of internet streams. Its works great over wi-fi and 3G and features a good selection of niche stations....

Here is the video of the mashup in action. I’m thinking up a new idea using the Last.fm api that will hopefully work better. As this was just a proof of concept it won’t be released any time soon.