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Android Mobile Futon
I’ve got a new job as a web / distributed systems developer where we develop applications on top of CouchDB as CouchApps.
It is an awesome technology and I’m really enjoying it. Working with CouchDB is really simple and straightforward because it is based on HTTP as a communication medium and the data layer is implemented in JSON. Both are amazing technologies. To make it even easier for developers to work with CouchDB there is an awesome built-in CouchApp called Futon which is an administration interface to the database system.
What makes CouchDB so powerful is that it supports mobile devices too. It runs perfectly smooth on Android for example. There is a native Futon implementation for Android called Mobile Futon which was developed by Dale Harvey. There was an issue with Mobile Futon not running running on the latest Android version - Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) and because I’m an open source believer and also wanted to have Mobile Futon on Android I decided to take a look at the issue and fix it. Admittedly the fix was quite easy as I only had to update Couchbase to the latest version and voilá issue resolved.
Since Dale is working on a new project called PouchDB and has less time for Mobile Futon he asked me if I’d like to maintain the project and I agreed.
The fixed version is already available on Google Play. Check it out and report any issues or submit pull requests!
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jsFiddle Bootstrap Skeleton
I’m a very frequent and happy jsFiddle user. It is a great service for rapid prototyping. You have an idea and try it out directly in the browser. No need to go through creating a lot of boilerplate code just to try something quick.
I’m also a big Bootstrap fan because it makes quite a lot of web development things a lot easier. It lets you create basic websites in no time.
Because of jsFiddle’s awesomeness you can use every library you want with it as long as it is hosted online somewhere. Since I’m too lazy to always search for the libraries and add them to the fiddle I have just saved a skeleton fiddle from which I just fork when I want to try something with Bootstrap.
Here is my Bootstrap jsFiddle skeleton which you can just fork to fiddle with.
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All hail to Microsoft … not.
I would like to take a moment to thank Microsoft for making the world a tad more complicated and less enjoyable.
Thank you!
If you wonder what I’m talking about then read this.
Windows 8 tablet drawbacks mount: ARM locked-down, x86 overpriced on SlashGear.com.
TL:DR: Vendors that want to Windows 8 certify their hardware have to enable Secure Boot without letting the end user decide whether he wants that or not. That is they lock the Secure Boot option enabled.
So again, thank you Microsoft. You are doing a great job protecting your users from the dangerous green robot and the very vicious penguin. /sarcasm
