Tutorials Blog
How-To's, Install guides etc.
Tue 23 Dec
2008
How to Build An iPhone Web App - Part 1
Posted at 2:45 PM by Cameron Westland in Tutorials
I've been trying to figure out what the best way to share some of the ideas we've been coming up with over the last few months. Instead of doing a bunch of case studies, or trying to get permission from some of our higher profile clients, we've decided to do a short series on how to build an iPhone web application.
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Thu 30 Oct
2008
Setting Up Communication between GitHub Repositories and Lighthouse Projects via a Secure Token
Posted at 12:40 PM by Cameron Westland in Tutorials
Integrating Github with Lighthouse has been a great time saver. It has allowed us to stay on top of fixes and keep track of everything we're doing in one place. We don't need to have everyone looking through the git logs now! This short screencast shows you how to get things set up.
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Thu 02 Oct
2008
Combining CSS For Production Use
Posted at 5:17 PM by Cameron Westland in Tutorials
This article shows how we've been combining our cascading stylesheets for production usage. We use a combination of a rake script, a borrowed class from the folks over at Prototype.js and a little PHP. This lets us have multiple stylesheets files in development, but then combines them into a single one ready for deployment on the server.
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Mon 29 Sep
2008
Testing for a Corrupted FLV Video on OSX Leopard
Posted at 10:58 AM by Cameron Westland in Tutorials
I recently had an issue with flash videos being corrupted on a project. I decided to use FFmpeg to try to open the file automatically and generate a thumbnail. My reasoning was that if I could open the file with FFmpeg than it probably wasn't corrupt.
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