Archives for 2008

Search locally hosted books in Coda when offline

I wrote a simple php page that greps through the html files within Coda's "books" and displays the results ordered by the number times the search term appears.

View locally hosted books in Coda when offline

Coda has the ability to display online reference manuals as searchable "books". The feature is nice, but I felt as though it would be more useful to have locally stored books that could be referenced when offline.

You should be using Coda

After starting my first full-time software development job last week, I found myself in need of a solution that would let me edit files directly on a development server. The folks at Panic convinced me to part with 99 of my hard earned dollars and I was not disappointed.

Setting the back button title of a UINavigationItem

As pointed out in this thread, "the back button is 'owned' by the previous view on the stack." In other words, the setBackBarButtonItem method should be called on the view that the user is navigating away from, rather than the view above which this button is actually displayed.

Avoid a UITableView headache

When using a custom section header view on a grouped UITableView, remember to implement the heightForHeaderInSection delegate method.

WordPress iPhone app

After finally getting around to updating this blog to the newest version of WordPress, I stumbled across the WordPress iPhone app, and I must say I'm impressed.

GMaps2MBTA Bookmarklet

I created a Javascript bookmarklet to ease the frequent annoyance of cutting and pasting the start and end addresses from the Google Maps directions page into the MBTA trip planner.

LukeJarretMusic.com revision

I rebuilt my brother's web site using Joomla 1.5 to gain some experience with the CMS.