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Detect iPhone users with Radiant Language Extension

if you are a big fan of Radiant CMS (like we are) probably you are using Language Extension for redirecting your visitors to appropriate language pages. How about redirecting iPhone users to an iPhone-only version of your site? Today my teammate Volkan Caliskan launched iPhone-only site of Vayen and shared me a trick that They have [...]

Decide faster with Hunch.com

Couple of days ago I discovered Hunch.com and joined the beta version of the site. Although I am not a fun of expert systems (I think they’re not expert enough) I saw that hunch team made a really cool product which combines logic of expert systems with decision making of mankind. It’s not just showing you the [...]

4 Questions to answer when you faced an encoding error in a web service

Encoding non english characters may cause many problems. Especially if you are using a smart text editor, it’s hard to find out what is really happening in the communication because smart text editors are extremely cool moreover they fix the encoding errors by modifying the retrieved message in order to help developers. But sometimes [...]

Google Appengine rocks!

    Since Google announced Appengine, we are all excited about the upcoming news. In this article i want to share some tips for getting started with appengine. Following tips are : general information and registering to appengine, using App Engine SDK, creating your first app and deploying your baby. * General info and Sign up. Why app engine [...]

Yahoo Pipes Development Tips

While developing with yahoo pipes,  there are a couple of undocumented issues that Developers should be curious about, so that you should decide if yahoo pipes is right for you or not.  First one is how often yahoo bot updates  your feeds, According to my experiments (I logged  rss requests made by yahoo), Yahoo bot updates  rss each [...]

Follow iPhone App’s server requests

There  are a couple of ways to follow the server requests of an iPhone application.  First way is using HTTP Proxy on your wi-fi networks settings.  In order to configure a proxy, you need a simple proxy server.  You should use squidman as your personal proxy server. Download squidman and run.  Now you have your proxy server running.   Now go to [...]

AVAudioPlayer on iPhone Simulator

With iPhone 2.2, AVAudioPlayer Class is introduced. AVAudioPlayer  simplifies making an object from a file, start/stop/pause media, volume control and looping.  You can find documentation of this class via Apple iPhone Developer site, here we will discuss an issue you’ll probably face while trying to use this class on simulator.  If you are facing problem, playing your media with AVAudioPlayer [...]