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Xcode, Phonegap failed to load webpage with error: The requested URL was not found on this server solution. Phonegap tutorial error and solution. No one else has this solution, not even Stackoverflow can help!
Are you completing the phonegap installation tutorial from this guy:
http://iphonedevlog.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/phonegap-2-1-0-in-mac-os-x-mountain-lion-10-8-from-download-to-ios-app-store/
Me too, until I got stuck with his error message […]
A list of CSS frameworks I’ve liked. It’s more a CSS Framework list for myself so I have all the Framework links in one location. This is not even close to a complete CSS Framework list, so don’t link to it.
What is a CSS Framework? Check Wikipedia for a full definition, but CSS Frameworks […]
Done! I threw together a quick recommendation algo over lunch and it worked out great so it sticks. It’s on the Skimfeed front page right now. There are no plans to roll the recommendation engine out to all individual category pages yet, but it is an option. Server load is […]
Time for another skimfeed update. Yay? Hit the music (new window).
Hide button was removed because I thought no one was using it (it has no usage tracking metrics). Feedback complaint today. Hide button is back. The hide button is yellow for now to get attention, will remove the yellow later once it’s […]
An interesting article on Hacker News preferences here has resulted in an interim solution to the “which feeds get top position” problem.
In particular the relevant section is titled: Post Performance By Content’s Domain Name. It charts which domains are most popular to hacker news readers, and hence, skimfeed readers.
Following this discovery, Skimfeed […]
Skimfeed is a news feed Aggregator. RSS news aggregating gets RSS or XML feeds and processes them into single news feeds. This is essentially what Skimfeed does.
If you are reading this, now is a good time to go to the main Skimfeed News Aggregator. The rest of this prose is […]
Quick Linux guide for myself in case I forget. Here are Linux command line codes to do various things on a server hosting environment or home linux install. Many of these linux commands will work on Mac too.
EMERGENCY exit from unix process:
CTRL+c
RESET a linux server the hard way, total downtime is around […]
Today I had a few hours over lunch to make some design changes to SkimFeed. The following experiments were completed:
Removed Latest, Random and Popular from the front page. 3 feedback complaints almost immediately! Readded them to the front page. Personal opinion – I liked them, just thought maybe you guys would prefer just the […]
Quick links to guides on setting up an Amazon Cloud instance (Amazon EC2 micro instance). Uses Nginx as webserver, not Apache.
Setting up Amazon EC2 free micro instance quickly – Tutorial and Guide to set up a quick free amazon EC2 instance. Contains an optional WordPress install capable of 10 million visitors a day […]
The design and layout of Skimfeed is something I’ve worked hard on yet still has a VERY long way to go. In case I ever forget, here are my two favorite articles ever created covering information design. These two articles have completely changed my web development strategy and recommended reading for every intern who walks […]
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