Working with an htaccess file can be a bear. Sometimes it feels like a game of guess and check. And other times, you’re ready to pull out your hair if you see another 500 error. Yeah, you know the one … Continue reading
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7 Questions to Challenge Your Corporate Identity
Over the past few months the Randomtype team has been bringing in guest speakers to talk on their area(s) of expertise. Undergoing some growth at work, we’ve been focusing much of our attention on resonating Randomtype’s Brand with our family … Continue reading
Quick Script to Flush Mac DNS Cache
I am constantly forgetting the command to flush my DNS cache in mac. So I built this quick script: Simple and mindless like my script to open up the current directory in finder, this baby is going to save me … Continue reading
How to create an awesome image carousel for your WordPress theme using Advanced Custom Fields and jQuery
Here’s a request that I get often: “Can we have an image slideshow that appears on top of every page and can you set it up so that we can change the images from time to time?” In WordPress there’ … Continue reading
I’d Tap That
Ruby 1.9 added a new method tap that is useful for cleaning up code. Here’s the Ruby doc: tap{|x|…} → obj: Yields x to the block, and then returns x. The primary purpose of this method is to “tap into” … Continue reading
How to Generate Promo Codes from the ITunes Store
This blog post will detail how to generate promo codes for your apps. After completing this post you’ll be able to generate promo codes to hand out to reviewers, as give aways, or to friends and family. Login to iTunes … Continue reading
3 Tips for Ruby Mechanize
Ruby Mechanize is a brilliant gem. Love it. But the documentation is sparse and you’ll find yourself having to poke and prod objects to coerce what you need out of them when things gone wrong. To make your life easier … Continue reading
How to Make InApp Purchase and App Description Changes
This blog post will detail how to make changes to InApp Purchases in the app store, as well as how to make app description changes. This means that after completing this post you’ll be able to put your apps on … Continue reading
Fixing Association Type Mismatch error in Rails and FactoryGirl
I was getting a big ugly error running FactoryGirl in my rails tests: I was able to trace the error to code where I was building up Associations: The error occurred whenever I had the :project_graph creation occurring. Removing the … Continue reading
How Mobile Applications can Improve your Business
Smartphones are a happening topic and as time goes on, the mobile application market is doing nothing short of continuing it’s popularity explosion. Over the past few years my phone has transitioned from a over-powered toy into a hyper-productive business … Continue reading
Fixing Bundle Version Errors
I don’t know about your first experience uploading to the iTunes store, but if it was anything like mine it was wraught with periles, errors, many tears, and most likely an expletive or seven. One of those errors is the … Continue reading
How to Sign Out of the iTunes Store
Below are the steps to sign out of the iTunes Store on your iOS device. Choose the Setting Application Touch the Store Icon Touch your Apple ID Touch Sign Out Important: if you’re doing this to test in-app purchases do … Continue reading
