Mitchell McKenna - tagged with development http://mitchmckenna.com/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron mitchellmckenna@gmail.com iOS Boilerplate - A base template for iOS apps http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/10117/ios-boilerplate-a-base-template-for-ios-apps

The boilerplate includes the following libraries: ASIHTTPRequest, JSONKit, SVProgressHUD and few others.

It also includes helper classes for: - HTTP requests and an image cache (both in-memory and disk-based). - UITableViews and UITableViewCells: fast scrolling, async images, pull-down-to-refresh, swipeable cells. Maps and locations: directions between two points, autocomplete a location, etc.

Note: Some of the libraries here may become obsolete once iOS 5 is released, see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2996785

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Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:31:00 -0700 http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/10117/ios-boilerplate-a-base-template-for-ios-apps
CodeIgniter Sparks | The Package Manager and Repository http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/9346/codeigniter-sparks-the-package-manager-and-repository

"Some fantastic and useful libraries have been written for CodeIgniter, but they remain scattered around the internet on blogs, wikis, forums, and github.

GetSparks is about making great libraries written by the community easy to find, create and distribute."

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Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:45:00 -0700 http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/9346/codeigniter-sparks-the-package-manager-and-repository
TumblrThemr - Making Creating Tumblr Themes Easier http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/9336/tumblrthemr-making-creating-tumblr-themes-easier

"Creating themes for Tumblr sucks.

It’s a testament to the passion developers and designers feel for Tumblr that so many great themes exist – despite the complete lack of tools. No matter how you tackle it, developing a theme involves a time-consuming mess of manual copying and pasting, saving, testing, and copying and pasting again.

TumblrThemr solves this problem, letting you develop navigable themes locally using real data from your Tumblr blog."

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Sun, 03 Apr 2011 13:44:00 -0700 http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/9336/tumblrthemr-making-creating-tumblr-themes-easier
PhoneGap - The Only Open Source Mobile Framework That Supports 6 Platforms http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/9335/phonegap-the-only-open-source-mobile-framework-that-supports-6-platforms

"Phonegap is a HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologies and get access to APIs and app stores."

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Sun, 03 Apr 2011 13:39:00 -0700 http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/9335/phonegap-the-only-open-source-mobile-framework-that-supports-6-platforms
OpenHatch - Get Involved in an Open Source Project http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/7591/openhatch-get-involved-in-an-open-source-project

"An open source software involvement engine. For developers, we provide tools to demonstrate and broaden their experience and expertise in the open source community. Our vision is to make the open source community better connected, more productive, and ultimately well rewarded for its expertise."

Great little site if your looking to contribute to an open source project, but your not sure what you want to work or how to get started.

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Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:57:00 -0700 http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/7591/openhatch-get-involved-in-an-open-source-project
10 RSS Feeds for Design & Development Job Seekers http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/5932/10-rss-feeds-for-design-amp-development-job-seekers

"The design and development industry has a number of excellent job boards, and thousands of people take advantage of them each day. However, for many people, the time is not always available to browse through job boards on a regular basis.

This is where RSS feeds can be an excellent tool"

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Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:08:00 -0700 http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/5932/10-rss-feeds-for-design-amp-development-job-seekers
Meld | Linux Visual Diff & Merge http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/5867/meld-linux-visual-diff-amp-merge

"Meld is a visual diff and merge tool. You can compare two or three files and edit them in place (diffs update dynamically)."

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Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:27:00 -0700 http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/5867/meld-linux-visual-diff-amp-merge
Quickly | Get Started Programming For Linux http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/5597/quickly-get-started-programming-for-linux

"Given the richness and variety of the Linux platform, programming on Linux should be easy and fun. Quickly strives to make programming easy and fun by bringing opinionated choices about how to write different kinds of programs to developers." Check out an intro video here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=dx93U10Kkro

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Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:22:00 -0700 http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/5597/quickly-get-started-programming-for-linux
Make a UITableView Look Pretty | Cocoa iPhone Dev http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/5532/make-a-uitableview-look-pretty-cocoa-iphone-dev

"It is really easy to customize your UITableViews. I'll show you how to completely customize the appearance of UITableViews without overriding or subclassing and without the need for any tricky hackery."

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Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:56:00 -0700 http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/5532/make-a-uitableview-look-pretty-cocoa-iphone-dev
The Ultimate Toolbox for iPhone Development http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/5211/the-ultimate-toolbox-for-iphone-development

"70 tools, tutorials, and resources to help you get started developing your own iPhone apps. There’s everything from basic tutorials to templates to resource libraries to help you on your way."

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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:15:00 -0700 http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/5211/the-ultimate-toolbox-for-iphone-development
Matchbox for CodeIgniter Has A New Competitor http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/5145/matchbox-for-codeigniter-has-a-new-competitor

Matchbox is a modular system, which means you can group your controllers, models and views for a specific section of the site together. There's a new competitor called Modular Separation. Modular Separation is purely PHP 5 which gives it a slight edge over Matchbox from the get-go as it can leave out a lot of the extra PHP 4 support and go right for the much cleaner & quicker full OOP approach. It also includes 404 routing.

Popular CodeIgniter PyroCMS has now been converted to use Modular Separation and it has shaved a few 100ths of a second off here and there. I am not suggestion you drop Matchbox right now, but give it a try if you are starting a new project.

Check out the thread in the CodeIgniter forums here: http://codeigniter.com/forums/viewthread/121820

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Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:11:00 -0700 http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/5145/matchbox-for-codeigniter-has-a-new-competitor
Ultimate IE6 Cheatsheet: How To Fix 25+ Internet Explorer 6 Bugs http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/4257/ultimate-ie6-cheatsheet-how-to-fix-25-internet-explorer-6-bugs

"Stop. Ok, I feel your frustration. You're a web developer and you're ready to tear your hair out because you have to support Internet Explorer 6, but, to put it tactfully, IE6 doesn't support you. You've spent hours on it, but you just can't seem to get your layout right. I can empathize. I can also help."

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Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:41:00 -0700 http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/4257/ultimate-ie6-cheatsheet-how-to-fix-25-internet-explorer-6-bugs
jQTouch | jQuery plugin for mobile web development http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/4144/jqtouch-jquery-plugin-for-mobile-web-development

"A juery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, Android, Palm Pre, and other forward-thinking devices."

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Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:48:00 -0700 http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/4144/jqtouch-jquery-plugin-for-mobile-web-development
SQLFormatter | Formats SQL Statements http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/4103/sqlformatter-formats-sql-statements

"SQLinForm automatically cleans up the formatting of SQL code for all major databases i.e. MySQL, ORACLE, etc. with over 50 formatting options.

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Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:14:00 -0700 http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/4103/sqlformatter-formats-sql-statements
Why Git is Better Than X http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/4082/why-git-is-better-than-x

"Why people are switching to Git from SubVersion, Perforce, and Bazaar. Outlines the many advantages to using GIT for version control"

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Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:22:00 -0700 http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/4082/why-git-is-better-than-x
10 Interesting Lightweight jQuery Plugins for Web Developers http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/3501/10-interesting-lightweight-jquery-plugins-for-web-developers

"includes a lightbox, an HTML markup editor, some plugins to work with images, a tooltips creator and a PHP interface for jQuery."

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Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:45:00 -0700 http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/3501/10-interesting-lightweight-jquery-plugins-for-web-developers
Pencil Project | Open Source Wireframing Tool http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/3384/pencil-project-open-source-wireframing-tool

"Free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use. Also available as a firefox extension"

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Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:59:00 -0700 http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/3384/pencil-project-open-source-wireframing-tool
18 Useful bash scripts for web developers http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/3149/18-useful-bash-scripts-for-web-developers

"Examples: Bash script to append a .txt extension to a filename, Iterate over the current directory, get all files with .log and append .txt to the end of the entire filename..."

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Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:40:00 -0700 http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/3149/18-useful-bash-scripts-for-web-developers
13 Must-Have Add-ons To Strengthen Firebug http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/2862/13-must-have-add-ons-to-strengthen-firebug

"There are various add-ons that can add more power to Firebug for creating better & faster."

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Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:50:00 -0700 http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/2862/13-must-have-add-ons-to-strengthen-firebug
Wordpress Theme Development Frameworks http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/2693/wordpress-theme-development-frameworks

"designed to speed up the process of designing and coding a Wordpress theme by minimizing your time, and balancing your patience, on Wordpress’ back-end code that is repeated within every theme.

This post is not about finding the best framework, it is about finding the right framework that works for you."

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Thu, 28 May 2009 10:14:00 -0700 http://mitchmckenna.com/items/view/2693/wordpress-theme-development-frameworks