Creating iOS PhoneGap / Cordova 2.0 & Mountain Lion

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PhoneGap 2.0 and Mountain Lion don’t get along too well when it comes to creating new iOS projects. If you’re getting the following (or similar errors):

usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fi | -n] [-apvX] source_file target_file
 cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fi | -n] [-apvX] source_file ... target_directory

Replace your current cordova bin file by downloading the latest bin as per the second step in the getting started guide.

If you’re interested in the problem:

The script has multiple points of failure if there are spaces anywhere in either the path to the extracted bin dir, or the path to the target. It seems that there is insufficient argument escaping when passing the derived variables, like $R, on to other scripts and program

– https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-1124

I’m unsure why the official download doesn’t contain this fix.

Mountain Lion Dock Stops Showing Active Apps

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In OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) there’s a bug where the dock, exposé and cmd+tab app switching can stop showing newly opened apps. To fix this restart the dock by entering the following into Terminal:

killall -KILL Dock

I’ve had this a few times and expect it to be updated in 10.8.1.

Make WordPress Twitter Embeds Responsive

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By default WordPress twitter embedded tweets have a fixed width of 550px which is added to the inline style with an !important declaration to stop you overriding it. This breaks responsive layouts and causes horizontal scrolling as soon as your site is viewed at less than 550px wide.

Add the following to your themes functions.php file:

add_filter('oembed_result','twitter_no_width',10,3);
function twitter_no_width($html, $url, $args) {
	if (false !== strpos($url, 'twitter.com')) {
		$html = str_replace('width="550"','',$html);
	}
	return $html;
}

This removes the hardcoded 550px width from the generated output. If you’ve got existing embedded tweets you’ll need to re-save the posts to regenerate the embed code.

Thanks to Otto for the tip.

Mysterious girl, move your coffee close to mine

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Peter Andre’s New York Coffee Club

The much anticipated, eagerly awaited second coffee shop of Peter Andre’s made its Brighton debut last week and I was there to taste his latest offering. Just like Pandre’s insania filled comeback following his appearance on I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, the sequel to his East Grinstead shop brought excitement and joy to a rainy sunglasses still required Brighton.

The ITV2 of Coffee

The available coffees and prices flash up intermittently on three screens behind the baristas. Just before you’ve chosen one of the eight coffees the screen flashes to an irrelevant promotional page. Wait 20 more seconds and you’ll be ordering that coffee; with one of the friendly staff tapping a screen to expertly blend your personal cup of coffee.

The coffee was slightly bitter, lukewarm, served in a cold cup from an automated touchscreen all-in-one bean to cup machine that clearly hasn’t yet been fine tuned to make a decent hot cup. It lacks the love and care you’ll find in most of Brighton’s indie coffee shops.

In Australia it is hard to get a bad coffee yet over here it is hard to get a good one.

– http://www.newyorkcoffeeclub.co.uk/about-nycc/

Join the Club

The name New York Coffee Club is hardly inspiring, personally I’m in favour of renaming it Oz Coff. The New York theme doesn’t stretch beyond some awful graffiti art I hear Pandre personally designed and executed to match the tattoo he got following the Jordan split.

New York Coffee Club Graffiti

Excuse the poor camera work. I had to work covertly.

The New York Coffee Club opened with fresh paint and clean tables, with an obvious effort to avoid making headlines about its hygiene.

The store has ambitious but welcomed opening hours, with coffee being dispensed till 9pm Monday to Friday, and up to 7pm on a Sunday. A late night coffee shop has been much sought after in Brighton for some time. What a shame it’s this one.

I’m happy to see Pandre has taken a more hands on approach with his input in this branch of New York Coffee Club.