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For those who wish have a PHP based backend for an iPhone app, I’ve created a simple PHP function (pastebin.com) which serializes a PHP array (of strings) into a PLIST file. This can then be read by NSArray’s initWithContentsofFile (although you may wish to process it asynchronously rather than synchronously) and manipulated by an iPhone [...]

In 2008, it was one really interesting year for my IT wise. Skills gained during the course of 2008: JRuby (Java and Ruby Bridge) PHP CLI Scripting Some python scripting iPhone Development – The beginning Selenium Remote Control A hell of a lot! Which leaves 2009 to think up some new challenges: So far possible [...]

Being the really busy person that I am and with a little simple bash script + an already generated ssh public key. I’ve created a simple shell script to tell the remote server to remember your login.   This will obviously only work if PASSWORD and KEY authentication are both enabled. The advantages of KEY [...]

I’ve written a little workflow customization script which allows you to record logins (and possibly any actions) – so you can do up usage reports, etc on current usage. Just ignore the variable names. as I really hate Microsoft.XMLHttp as it caches requests (so if someone logs in and logs out faster than the cacheing, [...]

Well uTag seems like an interesting way of providing a tiny URL (and showing ads), and the API seems easy enough.   Well, I’ve created a SIMPLE (Yes it’s very simple, but hey it works!) bash script which takes the URL as a parameter and requests uTag to provide a link with ads (linking it [...]

Selenium is something which I’m going to keep an eye on over the next few months. They are claiming to have support for the iPhone soon. Yes – Automated Testing on the iPhone! Will there be any vendors offering this? Who knows, will depend on what is in store at WWDC ’08 which is just [...]