http://www.tosbourn.com Just another PHP / Javascript Developer Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:53:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a post I will be adding to over time all about links I have found useful when learning how to best use Git. How To Create And Apply A Patch - Really good article, the only thing I would clarify is that the am command can only be used ... http://www.tosbourn.com/2010/06/git/useful-git-links/ Yesterday I attended an event at the Holiday Inn in Belfast regarding some of the legal concerns over software houses incorporating open source code into their applications. This was put on by the good people at Momentum NI. It was an excellent talk delivered expertly by Rory Campbell from Forde Campbell. ... http://www.tosbourn.com/2010/06/events/using-open-source-some-legal-considerations/ Just testing the iPad app for Wordpress, looks pretty slick and responds well. Typing I have found to be a little sensitive but I am sure I will get used to it in time! If anyone wants to suggest apps I should be checking out please leave a comment below. Related Posts It’s official ... http://www.tosbourn.com/2010/05/nothing-of-consequence/a-post-from-my-ipad/ Robin Christopherson works at Abilitynet and gave an excellent talk last year at FOWA Dublin 2009 about some of the traps to avoid to keep your website accessible to all. This year he was talking about pretty much exactly the same thing, which would be annoying only the need for accessible ... http://www.tosbourn.com/2010/05/design/robin-christopherson-accessibility-in-web-design/ In my last writeup I mentioned that the content Owen DeLong was covering was a little dry but incredibly necessary. Eoghan McCabe's and Des Traynor's (both from Contrast.ie) talk entitled Five Lessons We've Learned Sexy or Meaningful builds a lot upon the theme of necessity as they talk about why it is important to not ... http://www.tosbourn.com/2010/05/design/eoghan-mccabe-and-des-traynor-five-lessons-weve-learned/ I wanted to play about with Google's Skipfish to see if it could automate any of my security scans and grabbed the source code from the code library. When I tried to make the file whilst running Ubuntu 9.10 I was presented with the following error: cc -L/usr/local/lib/ -L/opt/local/lib skipfish.c -o skipfish ... http://www.tosbourn.com/2010/05/security/skipfish-no-such-file-or-directory/ Onto number 5 with my run down and onto a talk by Owen DeLong entitled Content Providers must lead the way to IPv6. Owen is an IPv6 Evangelist with Hurricane Electric who gave a rather worrying talk about how we are going to need to move to IPv6 sooner rather than ... http://www.tosbourn.com/2010/05/web-stuff/owen-delong-content-providers-must-lead-the-way-to-ipv6/ My fourth post about FOWA is about a University Session that was organised during the first break, it was given by Microsoft's Martha Rotter and was on their new tool Pivot. Martha is a developer and part of the Platform team at Microsoft Ireland and gave a pretty interesting live demo ... http://www.tosbourn.com/2010/05/web-stuff/martha-rotter-too-much-information-university-session/ I had read some tweets earlier today about the Google Font API and thought I would check it out. Normally the way these things go down is I view the demos and have every intention of trying it myself but there are usually just a couple too many steps involved for ... http://www.tosbourn.com/2010/05/design/gotta-love-the-google-font-api/ The third talk at FOWA Dublin 2010 was by Renier Lemmens, the GM of PayPal Europe. You may think it odd that a PayPal head would be invited to talk at a developer conference (Apart from the fact they were the main sponsor of the event) but early on in the ... http://www.tosbourn.com/2010/05/web-stuff/renier-lemmens-the-future-of-mobile-apps/