John Long

Recently I met some people who said that Computer Services was unable to help them get their Mac OS X computers onto the student WiFi network in IT Sligo.

In this day and age, why isn't a college computer services dept. able to cater for Macs...

Anyhow, here's a PDF I've thrown together to instruct a user in how to do it. Leave me a comment if you need any help or more information.

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Tired of using webmail to check your IT Sligo Studentmail? I know I am. Ideally they'd upgrade to Exchange 2007 and give us all nice access to our mail AND the college global address list. I think that sounds like it makes too much sense though. For now, you have to be content with IMAP/POP access.

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Occasionally some of my friends contact me asking for assistance with their Macs. Usually this help can be conveyed over the phone, but sometimes I couldn't be bothered trying to explain it all, I just do it myself!

How, you might ask, can I accomplish this when my friends are 2 hours away!

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If you're like me and you find that MobileMe's "Back to my Mac" feature never works, don't fret!

SSH can be used as an alternative.

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Currently I'm working on an app that, like many, borrows its data from a 3rd party. In my case, I'm parsing the HTML from a website.

I had such parsing working from within the app itself using TFHpple, an XPath parser. However this meant that the iPhone would be doing all the work. Also, if the site that I'm scraping ever changed it's layout, my app would immediately stop working and my app would be out of action for at least 10 days!

To that end, on the recommendation of many fine XCakers, I began into coding a middle-man script. This script would be passed an identifer and would then go and parse the HTML generated by using that identifier. It would then return the wanted data in the form of a JSON string.

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Last week I attended iPhone App School in the Castleknock Hotel in Dublin. This course is one of many courses offered by SQT Training Ltd. in Limerick and was organised by Daniel Heffernan, Patrick Collison and Damien Mulley.

The aim of the course is to teach “developers everything they need to produce their own apps—from writing their first lines of Objective-C to publishing their app in the iTunes App Store.”

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