Archive for April, 2010
A simple example of navigator.geolocation.watchPosition()
Apr 27th
As I mentioned in my previous post about the new/upcoming navigator.geolocation standard, I have been experimenting with Geo location on my IPhone so I thought I’d share some of that with you in case it helps anyone out. My example is very simple and is intended to show how you can use the JavaScript navigator.geolocation.watchPosition() More >
How to get an accurate Geo location from Apple IPhone using navigator.geolocation.watchPosition
Apr 27th
Anyone who’s tried using navigator.geolocation on a fixed-line (i.e. not mobile) device will know that it’s not too useful, usually at home my location is given as New York, USA when in fact I am in Oxfordshire in the UK! So, I turned to my IPhone and had a bit of a hard time at first trying to get an accurate position reading from navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(). My findings here refer to using JavaScript in Safari on Apple IPhone (IPhone 3G with OS 3.1.3 on O2′s GSM network in the UK).
Quick how-to: (Sub)Domain forwarding Email in Qmail (with virtual domain support)
Apr 22nd
A brief article describing how I set up Qmail (on Debian Etch) running virtual domains to forward Email to another Email server using a simple addition to a Qmail config file.
UPDATED: A simple method of transferring MySQL Database(s)/Tables between servers
Apr 15th
We’ve recently been working on a Web-Server migration for a regular client at work, part of which involved transferring the MySQL Databases (or strictly the schemas) for each of their websites from their old Web-Server to the shiny new replacement. In doing this, I rediscovered a really handy method which really simplifies transferring MySQL data More >