Writing AJAX-driven web-applications without being able to modify the according web-service can be quite tricky, especially if the API is under active development or review.
Inspired by Peteris Krumins’ post, we wrote tip.js: a translucent intercepting proxy written in nodeJS. tip.js resides between the web-application and the according web-service and is able to influence the responses of AJAX-requests in a comfortable way.
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When users are uploading images to web applications, those images can have any size. But later this image may be displayed on a screen with limited space, e.g. a smart phone. Therefore an image with an exactly defined size may be needed.
I will show you how to resize and crop the uploaded images automatically in a Pylons back-end using the Python Imaging Library (PIL).
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We’re mainly using Eclipse as our favourite IDE but it leads to problems in most cases if you try to open a colleagues workspace. Our decision was to let everyone use the same Eclipse configuration that uses a native SVN connector but is also portable to any Linux x64 machine.
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When using PhoneGap, the application files are accessed locally (file://assets/…). Therefore the standard Facebook auth procedure using redirects does not work out of the box.
This article demonstrates the use of the PhoneGap-Facebook-Plugin.
Welcome to the new La Gentz Development Blog!
In the next months we will publish some of our nice tools which we develop to make our lifes easier. We decided to share our knowledge with you – your lifes should become easier, too!
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