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As might be expected, deploying a Titanium app to an iPhone was pretty easy. For the most part, just follow this video. However, there were these gotchas: Disabled Install Now button As per this post, it wasn’t obvious why the Install Now button was disabled. But clicking the “Upload” link next to the Upload Development… Continue reading Deploying the first Titanium app to an iPhone

This took several hours, with multiple dead ends, but here’s my story of getting my first Titanium app deployed to an Android device, using Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate. First, which phone to get? Obviously I want the cheapest possible, with no commitment. It doesn’t need to even be activated, since I won’t be making any… Continue reading Deploying a Titanium project to an Android phone for the first time

Today I got started on the Titanium platform. Being a newbie to native mobile development, there were a couple hiccups along the way. In retrospect this would have been much easier on a Mac I’m sure, but just to make it difficult (touch of sarcasm) I tried it on Windows 7 64-bit. My goal was… Continue reading Getting up and running on Titanium

I had a computer crash recently, but thanks to Windows Backup I was able to recover Windows from a month-old system image. Since I fortunately keep all my documents and music on a separate physical drive, not C:, in the end I didn’t lose too much. One thing I did lose, though, were the iTunes… Continue reading Recovering your iTunes playlists after a computer crash

The TinyMCE Javascript WYSIWYG widget has become the industry-standard plugin due to its stability and customizability. The one thing it’s missing, in my opinion, is syntax-highlighting in the code editor. A few people have tried integrating CodePress or CodeMirror into plugins but nothing has really taken off. So for now I just hacked the existing… Continue reading CodeMirror syntax highlighting support for TinyMCE