Pickadate.js is a great lightweight datepicker jQuery plugin that is optimized / usable on iOS Safari and Android browser. It has a nice set of customization / initialization options, and a solid set of events to listen for. Great browser support too. (IE7+)
A colleague of mine recently pointed out a cool way to test the mobile version of websites in Chrome: Ctrl + Shift + J to open the Developer Tools Click Gear Icon in bottom right corner Navigate to Overrides tab from the leftnav Check the User Agent checkbox and select your target platform. Eg; “iPhone [...]
Want to set up a local Apache / PHP / MySQL test environment on your linux machine, but looking for something more out-of-the-box than LAMP? (in regards to having no real GUI on linux, and having to mess around with htdocs file permissions in a lot of cases to be able to more easily add [...]
Like Firefox’s functionality but prefer Chrome’s look? Check out FXChrome theme for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fxchrome/
http://refreshless.com/nouislider/ is a great lightweight alternative for those looking to incorporate something like the jQuery UI slider (http://jqueryui.com/slider/) but in a more lightweight, more (arguably) customizable way. As of this writing, noUiSlider is free to use on personal and commercial projects.
Check out this SO post if you’re curious how to download a SQLite DB file from a running Android Emulator: http://stackoverflow.com/a/3505763 Note: The above method requires DDMS to be installed in your instance of Eclipse. It basically consists of opening the File Explorer tab of DDMS perspective, going to /data/data/{your app’s package name}/databases and downloading the [...]
I recently came across this great tip on stack overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1780559 for forcing Eclipse to break on a specific Exception (in this case a NullPointerException), which can of course be useful when the stack trace is for whatever reason unhelpful in diagnosing the source of the exception. In case that answer ever gets removed from [...]
http://see-why.net/2011/07/creating-a-new-local-svn-repository-for-subclipse/
Check out these links if you’re trying to install XAMPP/LAMPP on Ubuntu with a simple GUI to start and stop it: Installing XAMPP: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html (download the tar.gz, extract to /opt — XAMPP is now installed) Run the two commands here: http://freshtutorial.com/add-gui-xampp-control-panel-ubuntu/ to create a desktop entry / shortcut launcher for the GUI that comes with [...]
Here’s a cool online tool that lets you run PHP code and see the output in a preview box: http://writecodeonline.com/php/ Useful in a pinch.