To actually open a URL in Chrome, the URI scheme provided in the URL must be changed from http or https to the Google Chrome equivalent. Clever way to bypassing the fact that you cannot choose your browser on iOS (Sidenote: I wonder what would happen if Microsoft ever were to try this). Code example …
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Turf Geography Club
Turf is a free location based iOS game set in the real world. Earn coins for visiting real life locations, take’em over, build on top of’em, and collect rent. Beware your fellow geographers who want to take your sugar! Built on top of Foursquare Here’s the Kickstarter video that shows some gameplay (project has already …
Plex for Samsung
A Plex Client for Samsung TVs and BluRay Players has been released. Plex for Samsung → Plex is my favorite Media Center Solution. I have it running on a Mac Mini and it plays nice with my LG Smart TV, MacBook Pro and all my iOS devices. A Windows version of the server component is …
Your Startup is Doomed
Sometimes, after I speak at a tech conference, someone will come up to me and say: “Hey! You should check out my new startup.” They give me the elevator pitch, then they ask: “What do you think?” They’re beaming. They’re enthusiastic. And there is no polite way to say: “Statistically speaking, you’d be doomed to …
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React: Event-driven, non-blocking I/O with PHP
Inspired upon Node.js: <?php require ‘vendor/autoload.php’; $stack = new React\Espresso\Stack(function ($request, $response) { $response->writeHead(200, array(‘Content-Type’ => ‘text/plain’)); $response->end(‘Hello World\n’); }); echo ‘Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337’ . PHP_EOL; $stack->listen(1337); React →