Archive for the ‘Development’ Category

 

Mobile CakePHP Apps Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

It feels like an age ago that I wrote a component and helper for CakePHP that could mobilize an app. Since then, things in the WAPL and Wapple world have moved on at a rate of knots and it’s time to re-write, re-factor and re-engineer the mobile cake code to keep it up to date.

 

WordPress on Load Balanced Servers Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Picture the scene, you’ve had a great idea for a blog and have decided to use WordPress as your blogging software of choice. And as you’re going to be getting an insane amount of visitors (after all, you’ve got a great idea, right?) you’ve decided to buy some decent hardware to cope with the traffic.

 

When is a bug not a bug? Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

I used to work with someone who said that most bugs in software didn’t exist. His reckoning was down to the fact that most specifications for functionality aren’t tight enough. For example, if the spec for an adding function was to add two numbers together, adding 5 and 9 together and returning a value of [...]

 

REST or SOAP? Or don’t care? Monday, August 17th, 2009

I think we’ve realised at Wapple that when it comes to web services, not everyone always has the same level of technology that we have at our finger tips and completely take for granted. Take my Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress for example, and the way it used to communicate with Wapple’s web services. [...]

 

Clouds.. thousands of em.. Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Not so long ago, the Wapple website had clouds. Unfortuntely, the powers that be decided that the new version didn’t need them, so rather than sulk about it (ok I did sulk a bit) I’ve turned those hand crafted cumulo nimbii into a WordPress plugin!

 

Top 5 WordPress Plugins Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

It seems as if every man and his dog is writing a “top 5 plugins for wordpress” – the problem is they all sound the same and there’s never anything new. So as I’m a bit late to WP party, my list will be all about plugins that have got me up and running in [...]

 

WordPress Mobile Plugin 1.2.1 Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

So it turns out that there’s a little bug with script tags on certain blogs using my Wapple Architect Mobile plugin for WordPress. Not a problem as WordPress allows you to release new versions that actually prompt an admin to upgrade, groovy! So without further ado, version 1.2.1 is released. Here’s a link to the [...]

 

WordPress Mobile Plugin Version 1.2 is here Monday, July 27th, 2009

Cue the drum rolls and roll out the red carpet as yesterday heralded the arrival of version 1.2 of the Wapple Architect mobile plugin for WordPress. It’s got all of the bells and whistles that you’d ever need to create stunning looking mobile blogs and you’ve now got unprecedented levels of customization at your disposal!

 

Video transcoding, Darwin and the iPhone Friday, July 17th, 2009

Project Balti. That name won’t mean a great deal to anyone outside of Wapple HQ, but to those few in the know, it means just one thing – a video transcoding and streaming media solution.

 

Tea Mobile Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Ever found yourself gagging for a cuppa at work – but not wanting to boil the kettle seeing as you made the last one? Me too. So to help office morale around the world, I’m creating a website so you can track who’s made what and more importantly, who’s next.