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How to debug REST/JSON services

I recently had to write a webservice in PHP that were to be used by iPhone/Android apps to post data and images to. With standard HTTP POSTS I’ve usually just created a quick dummy html to post data to the server to test, but this time I had to do some research on how to quickly test the services while developing… Just writing it down here so I don’t forget :-)

Minimal HTML5 iPad Offline Cache Test

I just pushed a HTML5 template called “Minimal HTML5 iPad Offline Cache Test” to github: https://github.com/bjornbjorn/minimal_html5_offline_test Basically it’s a demo of a simple webpage that can be cached offline on an iPad. It also contains the meta tags required to make it work as a so-called “webclip”, that is you can add it to the homescreen on an iPad and it will open in fullscreen without the URL bar at top and without any other safari elements.

SEO Lite – The one calorie SEO addon for ExpressionEngine 2.x

A while back I released DevKit for ExpressionEngine using the module “SEO Lite” as an example. Now this module is ready for download! Click here to download SEO Lite Full documentation: SEO Lite documentation A SEO module for ExpressionEngine – what does it do? Sure you could add custom fields for this kind of meta data, but SEO Lite makes it cleaner and easier to use for the client.

Introducing DevKit for EE 2.0

I’ve spent the last 8 months developing modules (and templates) for EE 2.0. Pretty early I got annoyed by some of the redundant manual tasks I had to do over and over again .. so I started creating some addons to help me out. Now I’ve bundled (some of that) functionality in this thing I’ve named DevKit for EE 2.0, download it here: zip / github page. For now it contains functionality to generate the skeleton of a new EE module – you just give it some details (name, description, etc.

WooThemes launch of ExpressionEngine themes gets TechCrunch frontpage

Themes have moved   Please note that these themes have now moved to ThemeForest, you can find them here: ExpressionEngine Themes @ AddonBakery Ok, I’m kind of busy these days so I haven’t got time for the most elaborate posts — but anyway, as some of you might know I’ve teamed up with WooThemes to create theme packages for my publishing engine of choice; ExpressionEngine.