Caching content for iPhone webapp

January 29th, 2010

This post is still in progress; I haven’t gotten caching to work well yet. Loading...Every time I load my iPhone webapp I have to wait for it to download ~100 images and buttons. I’ll be closing and opening this app lots, so I’m trying to turn local caching on for all these images.

This article has gotten me started.

First of all I generated a cache.manifest file. Ideally, I want to cache anything within specific folders (images folders) but I couldn’t see anything that lets you use wildcards in the manifest. I’ll come back to trying this once I get a basic cache working, so for the time being I used a string of UNIX commands to generated a list of the files in my image directories, and stick it in my base manifest file. Read the rest of this entry »

Building an iPhone webapp

January 28th, 2010

This post is in progress.

Making updates and retrieving data after the initial load needs to be done using ajax. If you try to load another web page from a webapp, the iPhone takes the user into safari.

Apple have good details of the meta tags you can use to customize how iPhone handles your webapp. Read the rest of this entry »

First steps of building an online database

January 26th, 2010

I’ve been working on a database for BYP to help me keep track of the people involved with Cinders. I have email distribution lists and release forms to keep track of. It will also be helpful when producing the credits for the film.

I wanted to put the database online so it’s easily accessible (by authorised users). I started with DaDaBik to quickly build a PHP frontend to a mySQL database. Read the rest of this entry »

The Rule of Thirds

January 10th, 2010
The Rule of Thirds
The Rule of Thirds

I got a book about taking photos. It was cheap, but turns out that when it was written, any camera worth using was still analogue or wet. It talks a lot about chemicals and filters and film. However – I’m sure most of the concepts are still the same with digital photography, so I’m looking forward to developing some skills.

The first thing I’ve played with is the rule of thirds. Apparently you shouldn’t normally put your subject in the middle of the photo. Who knew?! I had a go at cropping photos taken at Kew Gardens a couple of weeks ago using the rule of thirds. Has it made the photos more vivid and captivating? Read the rest of this entry »

New Year’s Eve 2009 London Streets

January 1st, 2010
New Year’s Eve 2009 London Streets
New Year’s Eve 2009 London Streets

We’ve seen the fireworks, and trying to make our way home. Read the rest of this entry »