iPad

Magic text cleaner for iOS coders

Submitted by Dan Eveland on Wed, 01/04/2012 - 22:51

Dirty text. No one likes it, but it happens. Mysterious errors from code that looks perfect. I had wasted a lot of time copying and pasting text from places like php.net into Textastic and having the code not work at all. It turns out when I copy the text in Safari, it is grabbing characters that php does not like. Unfortunately there seems to be no text cleaners out there at all for iOS. I considered bugging the developer of Textastic for a feature BBEdit has called "Zap Gremlins", but I didn't. I may bug him to add a feature later, but for now I have made this work-around.

Uploading Images to Drupal from the iPad

Submitted by Dan Eveland on Mon, 07/18/2011 - 11:01
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Since I now replaced the use of a conventional computer with an iPad for my development and content creation, I needed an easy and quick way to post images from my iPad to my blog on Drupal 6. I use PhotoForge2 as my image editing app on my iPad (very nice app, and I even bought the extra filter package). It works great, but getting the images to Drupal was a major pain involving emailing myself files, which is a sure sign of a not-so-good process. Therefore, a more efficient solution was desperately needed to get image content directly from the iPad to Drupal.

iCloud vs. MobileMe

Submitted by Dan Eveland on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 22:19

Part of the fervent speculation of iCloud, replaced by fervent discussion after WWDC, MobileMe was often dissed. I don't understand the seemingly universal hatred of MobileMe. For the past several years, I have synced various devices with my MobileMe account. It has been a fantastic solution I rely on every single day. 

Currently I rely on it for synchronizing the following items:

My Top-10 Apps for iOS

Submitted by Dan Eveland on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 15:03

There are several iPad apps I use almost every day. These are my go-to apps that let me do the work, send the invoices and pay the bills. The list below are my top-10 apps that I use specifically to do my job as a web developer who specializes in Drupal-based sites. I am not listing Dropbox here, as anyone who uses an iPad for anything at all should already be very familiar with (and in love with) Dropbox.

My iPad and the Cloud

Submitted by Dan Eveland on Mon, 05/16/2011 - 23:31
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With the number of things I have to split my attention on every waking hour here at home, I decided to try a radical approach: no computer. No laptop, no desktop. Only an iPhone, and an iPad. So for my work as a web developer, I have transitioned to all cloud storage and servers, and only using iOS devices for all my work.

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