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WWDC Announced

In an unusual move by Apple they have announced the date and ticket sales ahead of time. This morning around 5:30 am PT I was waken to my monitoring app and greeted with this page. So now we’ll have to see how fast those tickets sell out. Last year it was around 2 hours, I’m […]

Setting up nginx on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for a test server

This guide walks through the steps of setting up nginx on a test server for use with a WordPress site. This guide assumes you already have Ubuntu 12.04 installed. For this guide we will be setting up nginx from source.  First we need to install the pre-requisites. 1 sudo apt-get install libpcre3-dev build-essential libssl-devsudo apt-get […]

Getting JetPack Carousel working with a new Theme

I recently pushed a new theme to my site and noticed that I could no longer use JetPack’s Carousel feature. It was breaking due to a javascript error. $.browser.mozilla$.browser.mozilla I did a little research and it appears that the JetPack Carousel is not currently compatible with jQuery 1.9 which removed the browser detection code. If […]

Adventures with HTML5 and offline content on an iPad

I’ve been thrown on a project at work where we need to make an app work completely offline.  The catch, the app was written in sencha touch (HTML5) and talkes to a web service for a whole range of content.  Some of those are interactive HTML elements and while others are videos.  Due to a […]