Currently I’m working on a site that is expected to work fine on iPhone devices. Obviously I knew that I had to dig up meta tags for iPhone site for Safari on the iPhone devices.

Found this and here are the list of it:

• <meta name=”apple-mobile-web-app-capable” content=”yes”> : sets whether a web application runs in full-screen mode. (refer to the documentation for the potential values)
• <meta name=”apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style” content=”black”> : Sets the style of the status bar for a web application. (refer to the documentation for the potential values)
• <meta name=”format-detection” content=”telephone=no”> : Enables or disables automatic detection of possible phone numbers in a webpage in Safari on iOS.
• <meta name = “viewport” content = “width = 320,
  initial-scale = 2.3, user-scalable = no”> : Changes the logical window size used when displaying a page on iOS.

Mostly I was using viewport.

Started looking at CouchDB with PHP recently and I will update this post as I find more references.

• How to install CouchDB on ubuntu
• http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/452052872/quick-guide-to-couchdb-and-php
• http://gonzalo123.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/php-and-couchdb/
• Of course, NoSQL needs to be looked at too!

Good learning if you are interested in learning Java.

Link

For ruby and rails:
(I was getting this message “File not found: lib” and finally found the answer after googling..)

• git
• rails on ruby (although 10.10 is maverick, the instruction worked on 10.04 lucid)
• 10 git commands
• Phusion Passenger for rail configuration in apache

sudo apt-get install ruby-full

wget production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-1.3.7.tgz

tar -xvf rubygems-1.3.7.tgz

cd rubygems-1.3.7/

sudo ruby setup.rb

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/bin/gem

sudo gem install rdoc

sudo gem install rails

sudo aptitude build-dep git-core

wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.7.1.tar.gz

tar xvzf git-1.7.1.tar.gz

cd git-1.7.1/

./configure

make

sudo make install

git –version

For mysql5 after the installation:

• to start mysql: sudo service mysql start
• to stop mysql: sudo service mysql stop
• to restart mysql: sudo service mysql restart

It’s NOT these:

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start

UPDATE (nov 23, 2010):

According to ruby doc, 1.8.7 p248 and p249 have marshaling bugs and it recommends 1.9.2. And I found this guide to upgrade to 1.9.2.

Also installation RVM on ubuntu.

I’ve been screening a lot of resumes these days to fill out one open position in our team. However, most of resumes that I reviewed writes about what projects were about and what role the candidate was on.

I rejected most of those resumes and sent back to recruiter.

Resume is a representation of you as an developer/engineer. As an engineer, don’t you want to discuss how you solve an puzzle instead of telling me what the puzzle was all about, what the rule the puzzle had, and so on?

I am looking for a resume that shows me how you solved an issue, how you improved performance, why you chose this approach over that approach, and so on.

In summary, I’d like to see more details on how and why you do.

in web development, pulling data from query string is the basic and fundamental task. In node.js, the syntax is like this:

http://{host}:{port}/?name=shinstudio.com

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var http = require('http'), url = require('url');
http.createServer(function(request, response) {
    response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type":"text/plain"});
    var urlObj = url.parse(request.url, true);
    response.write("Hello " + urlObj.query["name"] + "!\n");
    response.close();
}).listen(8000);

you can actually test my test app here:

http://www.groupstick.com:8001/?name=shinstudio.com

This is old blog post by Peter Van Dijck, which he posted presentation materials regarding site performance and scalability, but it is still very good resource.

Check it out.

A player definition. Good read.

I found a great post regarding the subject. It’s a very good read.

My colleague at work gave me a reference to how to set up Textmate so files appear in tab, not in a separate window. It’s not a perfect solution, but still damn good.

Click here to go to the tutorial