Debugging Chrome using the Firefox Debugger

Developing across multiple browsers and devices is the main issue developers have when building applications. Wouldn’t it be great to debug your app across desktop, Android, and iOS with one tool? We believe the Web is powerful enough to offer a Mobile Web development solution that meets these needs. Enter an experimental Firefox add-on called …

The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times

Think, for a moment, just how crazy this is. If you’re in Boston and someone tells you that they heard a sound coming from New York City, you’re probably going to give them a funny look. But Boston is a mere 200 miles from New York. What we’re talking about here is like being in …

Build your own PHP Framework with Symfony Components

switch($_SERVER[‘PATH_INFO’]) {     case ‘/’:         echo ‘This is the home page’;         break;     case ‘/about’:         echo ‘This is the about page’;         break;       default:         echo ‘Not found!’; } Good introduction on the Sitepoint website to getting started with a few of the Symfony Components. Starts with the example code above and – one by one – introduces the …

Monit – Easy, proactive monitoring

check host localhost with address 127.0.0.1 if failed ping then alert if failed port 3306 protocol mysql then alert check process apache with pidfile /var/run/httpd.pid start program = “/etc/init.d/apache2 start” stop program = “/etc/init.d/apache2 stop” Monit is a small Open Source utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and …

Building OS X Apps with JavaScript

OS X Yosemite introduced JavaScript for Automation. This makes it possible to access native OS X frameworks with JavaScript. The result above can be built using this code: ObjC.import(“Cocoa”); var styleMask = $.NSTitledWindowMask | $.NSClosableWindowMask | $.NSMiniaturizableWindowMask; var windowHeight = 85; var windowWidth = 600; var ctrlsHeight = 80; var minWidth = 400; var minHeight …