Tennis - Updated to remove a major bug to do with the ball getting stuck to the racket. Sorry this took so long to update – I included a twitter button in the game so that you can keep up to date with latest developments & provide an easy way to contact me in future.

iTalk Messenger Lite - I’ve noticed that a lot of people are downloading this every day, and so have included an option to remove the adverts.

I’ll let you know when these go live – hopefully by the end of the week, but when is anyones guess.

$i = 0;

while($i <= 6) {

echo $i;

$i++;

}

This code prints out the numbers 0 through 6 (0123456). Advancing this, you could have an array with 3 values in, and call them up like this:

$array = array('one', 'two', 'three');

$i = 0; // Remember Arrays start at 0

while($i <= 2) { // After I reaches 2, this loop stops - that gives the three values

echo $array[$i];

echo "<br>"; // html code for line break

$i++;

}

This code gives the following output:

one

two

three

I’ll advance on this later, but for now – it’s late.

[[view.layer presentationLayer] frame]

And that’s all!

• The Android Developer’s Cookbook
• C: A Reference Manual
• Introduction To Algorithms
• Java: Just In Time

Or so I thought…

As I went into work this evening, I checked the stock levels of them, and surprisingly we had 80 in stock! I grabbed one straight away, and after about an hour, we had none. Turns out we have some of the 32GB models still, so I think i’ll get a couple of those too tomorrow. Anyway, with discount, it came to £78.

I’ll post again once I collect it/them on Thursday.

I took the image with an iPad – I can’t get over how they can call it a HD camera when it’s as grainy as it is.

I’ve used all sorts of different VPS providers – BurstNET, QualityServers, 123Systems – but in my opinion, none of them have lived up to expectations as LCN have. It’s probably to do with the fact that the server just works – i’ve had 0 downtime since I created a VPS with them 3 months ago. The same can’t be said at all for the other 3 providers i’ve used – there always seemed to be some sort of urgent maintenance, or moving between servers. They didn’t seem like stable companies (with the exception of BurstNET, where there’s just too many people on one node). With LCN, you’re paying around 6x the cost for an equivalent server, but you’re getting 1000x the stability and support.

With the one VPS I have with them, I host 3 of my own sites – but I also feel confident enough to host other peoples websites (clients) on the same VPS because I know that it just works. I’m conscious that this has become more of a review than an advice article, but I truly believe that, at least if you live in the UK, you should use LCN for your requirements. If you live outside of the UK (in the US, for example) i’d recommend Rackspace – not that i’ve ever used them, but I know they are there for the long run, and not about to switch servers.

One more story with BurstNET to finish off, and this is the reason I switched to LCN – I went on a family holiday to Australia, and literally the day I got there (just got off the flight, went to stay with family, and turned the MacBook on) I had an email from BurstNET that all my data was lost from my VPS, and that was that. Not because it was overdue, but because there was “a minor issue with the VPS control panel, ePortal, which caused the data on the VPS to be lost”. That pretty much sums up exactly what BurstNET value their customers data at. Anyway, luckily I had backups which were accessible, and I started the slow process of rebuilding the server to what it was – not to mention waiting for the domain names to propagate to the new IP’s.

That’s all – basically, use LCN for your website. I do.

Standard UIAlertViews have 3 components that are editable by the developer – there are some advanced things people have done, such as add sliders etc, but it’s not standard interface procedure and it doesn’t look that good. The components are the title, which is shown in bold at the top of the alert, the message, which is the text in the middle – The alert view expands in height if the message is too long, and the buttons. In this first part of the series i’ll explain how to launch one of these UIAlertViews with 1 button which dismisses the alert.

Firstly, set up a new “View-based Application” project in Xcode. Set the product name to whatever you want – i’ll be setting mine to “UIAlertView App”. Leave everything else as default.

Once the project has loaded, select “{Your App Name}ViewController.m” You should see a bunch of code in the right hand side. Find this function:

-(void)viewDidLoad 

It will be commented out, and show green. To un-comment it, remove these two markings:

 /*    ...   */

They’ll wrap round the viewDidLoad function. Once you’ve done that, add the following code before this line:

[super viewDidLoad];

UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Test" message:@"This is an alert view"
delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:@"Dismiss" otherButtonTitles:nil];

This initiates a new UIAlertView with title “Test”, message “This is an alert view” and button “Dismiss”. Once you’ve identified those in the above code, you can change them to whatever you want. This isn’t the end of the code we need though. We need to tell the application to show the alert. To do this, add this piece of code directly underneath what you just wrote.

 [alert show];

Again, that’s not all! There’s one more piece of code we need. It’s a bit of memory management, and not strictly necessary, but it’s good practice. Add this below the [alert show]; instruction:

 [alert release];

And that should now work. You can now run the application, and pat yourself on the back.

Part two will be about how to use multiple buttons, and how to handle when they are pressed.

Firstly, you should know which theme is the current active theme. To do this, log into the admin dashboard, and go to “Appearance” -> “Themes”. It should be listed at the top of the page. Once you know this, you can move on.

There are a couple of options from here to access the file we need to change. One is FTP (which I hate) and the other is SSH (which I love). However you access the file, it doesn’t matter. Navigate to {wordpress root}/wp-content/themes/ on the server. Pick the theme which is currently active on your blog (it should be obvious, and named similar to what you found before).

Now, if you’re using FTP, download the page.php file. (Did I mention I hate FTP?) Edit the file as below and re-upload.

If you’re using SSH, use this command:

nano page.php

and edit the file as below. After editing save with Ctrl+O and Ctrl+X.

What to edit:

Find this in the file:

<?php comments_template(); ?>

Or at least, something similar to it. Now, change it to this:

<?php // comments_template(); ?>

Basically, “//” ‘comments’ out the comments and prevents it from loading.

And that’s all! Everything should be fine now, and you won’t have comments on pages.

I’m coming to the end of the development of Navigate Nigel – I have 5 more levels to complete, the final piece of music to be handed over to me, and some other little things to polish the game off. It’s taken around 3 months from design to completion so far, however production has ramped up over these past few weeks. www.NavigateNigel.com will have the latest information when I get round to editing it, so keep checking back to it.