Praise be to the Dev-Team for once again saving me from the evil empire. Approximately 15 minutes of my time and my phone was updated to the latest iPhone OS, unlocked and jailbroken to boot!
If you have unlocked/jailbroken your phone and are running on another carrier, you may have noticed that your push notifications are not working. To fix it, the folks over at cmdshft have found a way to get it working again. Check it out!
As I anxiously await news on Google TV from Google I/O, another interesting tidbit popped up. Google has introduced the Google Font API which gives us the ability to use open source web fonts. TypeKit, another pioneer in the web font space (and the company I currently use to provide web fonts for this site), partnered with Google to bring us the WebFont Loader. This Javascript library allows a developer to load web fonts from multiple providers, giving us greater ability to enrich the end user experience.
It would be great to see a number of the major font houses jump on board with the idea of using hosted web fonts. Hopefully this is only the beginning.
I am currently running Ubuntu on my MacBook Pro via VirtualBox for one of the projects I am currently working on. It’s not quite as robust as Parallels, but it does everything I need and it’s free. I currently store all of my code files on the host (my MBP) so I can use the editors I have on my Mac like BBEdit or TextMate.
Ubuntu recently released version 10.04 so I decided to take the plunge and perform the update. After the update, I rebooted the virtual machine and received an error that the host share where my code is stored did not mount properly. After it booted completely, I noticed the share did actually mount. I was using /etc/fstab to automount but found an alternative:
1. Follow the instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RcLocalHowto
2. After you have created the /etc/init.d/local file, add this to the bottom:
mount.vboxsf -w HOST_FOLDER /MOUNT_POINT
This method waits for all system services to be loaded and then runs the commands located in the /etc/init.d/local file.
“The future of the web is HTML5.” It’s nice to see Microsoft finally join the rest of the web standards community.
See David Chartier’s nice summary of Microsoft’s blog post at Macworld.com.
[via kottke]
In February 2010 Fred Wilson, a New York based tech investor, spoke at the annual Future of Web Apps Miami conference. His talk, clocking in at just under 30 minutes, looks at his top 10 principles for creating a successful web app.
I recently ran across a great resource for web designers and developers. It’s amazing how far we’ve come in such a short period of time in regards to HTML5/CSS3 browser support. Many of the major browsers are now supporting a decent chunk of the spec. Unfortunately IE is still lagging behind. Until they decide to catch up with the rest of their peers, Windows users who stick with IE as their default browser will not get to reap the benefits of HTML5 and all it’s glory.
Welcome to the all new jasonawbrey.com. I’ve turned this site into a blog to share things I’ve found with my friends and colleagues, blog about new ideas in the web development and interactive television space, and write about whatever needs to be discussed. Plus, the old site was starting to look a bit dated and needed some love.
I can’t believe I haven’t done this until now, but I’ve added a ‘Music’ section to the site. I will be updating this soon with a schedule of upcoming gigs, my current bio and some samples of my performances so stay tuned…
