Like a lot of you out there, I am a windows developer with an iPhone. This limits me to using libraries like jQTouch to make my App idea as iPhone targeted web apps. Well I have found a nice way to test my iPhone Web Apps on my PC using Safari 4 thanks to the nice people @ Apple.
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I have come to the conclusion that I need to learn PHP and MySQL. At work we are on a Microsoft stack. And while I am comfortable with this and confident that neither technology is better than the other, I feel like knowing only the one is hindering my growth as a developer. Not to mention my ability to get on interesting projects that use the open source stack.
So over the next few months I will be taking on the task of learning PHP and MySQL. I am very excited as I am sure it will help me grow and also get better at customizing wordpress themes. Check back later to see how it is going.
So I have been using bookmarklets for a while and decided I would like to make one of my own. So first I decided what action I do a lot that I could make a bookmarklet for. I came up with creating one to search Amazon products.
Bookmarklet Here – Drag bookmarklet into your bookmark bar to add.
. The idea is to see a product name on a page.

Highlight the name.

Then click the bookmarklet to open a window to search amazon.


Today I will be speaking at the Baton Rouge .Net User Group (or BRDNUG). I will be talking about consuming ASP.Net web services with jQuery andalso calling page methods. I plan to have a blog post up soon with notes from my presentation. I just found out I was going to do this yesterday evening, so needless to say it was a long night.
Where: Lamar Advertising
When: 5:45 PM – 8:00 PM
Demo