dev.enekoalonso.com » mac 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 Safari 4 rocks http://dev.enekoalonso.com/2009/03/01/safari-4-rocks/ http://dev.enekoalonso.com/2009/03/01/safari-4-rocks/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:48:20 +0000 Eneko Alonso http://dev.enekoalonso.com/?p=286 I’ve been using Safari both at home and work since last Thursday when I first knew it had been released and it looks very fast and solid. They have finally added some standard keyboard shortcuts, like Ctrl+Tab and now you can restore your previous session (all pages open) the next time you open the browser (although not automatically like Firefox).

It looks very good for web development too, since it has the Javascript console integrated and you can do direct changes on the DOM and the CSS to preview how it would look. But I think Firebug is still ahead and I’m very used to it, so I’m not ready to completely stop using Firefox.

I have nothing against Firefox, which has been my favorite browser for years, but the fact that it is very, very slow. I’ll say today is the slowest browser out there. Or at least it looks like that sometimes. The only extension I have is Firebug. I’ve tried removing the cache, the history, etc. with no luck.

So yeah, so far I’m very happy with Safari 4.

Safari 4

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]]> http://dev.enekoalonso.com/2009/03/01/safari-4-rocks/feed/ 1 Enabling PHP5 on Mac OS X Leopard http://dev.enekoalonso.com/2008/12/05/enabling-php5-on-mac-os-x-leopard/ http://dev.enekoalonso.com/2008/12/05/enabling-php5-on-mac-os-x-leopard/#comments Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:07:43 +0000 Eneko Alonso http://dev.enekoalonso.com/?p=85 I had done this already at work, but for some reason my MacBook Pro still didn’t “understand” PHP. Well, I’ve decided it’s time to activate it:

  1. # Use your favorite editor
  2. mate /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
  3. # Uncomment the line:
  4. #LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
  5. # Restart apache
  6. sudo apachectl restart

Done.

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