dev.enekoalonso.com » development http://dev.enekoalonso.com having fun with code Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:51:28 +0000 en hourly 1 Titanium Developer: love and hate http://dev.enekoalonso.com/2010/07/30/titanium-developer-love-and-hate/ http://dev.enekoalonso.com/2010/07/30/titanium-developer-love-and-hate/#comments Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:57:16 +0000 Eneko Alonso http://dev.enekoalonso.com/?p=615 I’ve been using Titanium Developer for a while now, since I installed it to do some mobile app research one or two months ago. But up until now I barely used it again other than to maintain a desktop app I created for a game, which thanks to Titanium runs in both Mac and PC. Thus, up until this week, I hadn’t really get in depth with it.

The good things

Nice, easy and fast. Creating apps is piece of cake, loading JSON feeds from Internet, using local storage, placing buttons and labels on the screen… it’s all easy and it works on both iPhone and Android right away.

The bad things

Titanium Developer looks like an unfinished app. It shouldn’t be version 1.X, not even 0.X. Looks like an alpha, buggy and very easy to get screwed up, specially if you share your projects between Windows and Mac. This time it launches the emulator, this time it does not. This time your project does not load properly. Next time, you try to create a new project and it fails. And the errors are totally useless. Not very helpful.

Conclusion

The idea is great, awesome. The code is clean and using Javascript for development makes it easy for web developers to get easily involved into mobile app development. If only the Appcelerator team could improve their app, we would save a lot of headaches.

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]]> http://dev.enekoalonso.com/2010/07/30/titanium-developer-love-and-hate/feed/ 2 Adding specific code for production only http://dev.enekoalonso.com/2008/12/26/adding-specific-code-for-production-only/ http://dev.enekoalonso.com/2008/12/26/adding-specific-code-for-production-only/#comments Sat, 27 Dec 2008 05:46:54 +0000 Eneko Alonso http://dev.enekoalonso.com/?p=218 When you are developing a website you want to get as close as production as possible, to guarantee the final result will be appropriate and to make sure everything is going to work fine. But there are special cases when you want to add some code only on production, like stats code for example.

One easy way to do this is to check the server HTTP variables, the HTTP_HOST to be exact. This will contain your server host name, without the “http://” and the page URL. In my case, the value is “dev.enekoalonso.com”.

In PHP:

  1. <?php if ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == 'dev.enekoalonso.com'): ?>
  2. [Google Analytics code here]
  3. <?php endif; ?>

That way I don’t mess up my stats while spending hours creating a demo in my development environment.

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]]> http://dev.enekoalonso.com/2008/12/26/adding-specific-code-for-production-only/feed/ 2 Setting up a development environment http://dev.enekoalonso.com/2008/11/29/setting-up-a-development-environment/ http://dev.enekoalonso.com/2008/11/29/setting-up-a-development-environment/#comments Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:54:00 +0000 Eneko Alonso http://dev.enekoalonso.com/?p=61 I want to left behind the days when I was developing code without any version control system. I have been using these at work for years now, but never for my personal projects. So know I use/have two SVN repositories:

But SVN doesn’t solve all problems, specially when working with Javascript and HTML. This is because I want to see my code in action. For this, I have http://code.enekoalonso.com. Until now I was uploading manually javascript and html demo pages that I was working on, but synchronizing it with the SVN repository became a pain very fast. So in order to avoid this, I have done a checkout of my SVN repository on my webserver. Now, whenever I update or add a new project to the repository, updating http://code.enekoalonso.com will be as simple as running the command: 

svn update

And that’s it!

Now I can develop and test locally on my own computer, then commit to svn and update my code server without any pain.

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