Category Archives: Programming

Programming related posts.

My First iPhone App

Last May I finally succumbed and joined the Apple iOS Developer Program. During this time I have ben learning objective-c and trying to decide what app I should make.

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Logical Operators in PHP

Just a very quick post. Most of us use the operators && (AND) and || (OR) but 1 that I always forget is XOR. I have knocked up a quick image showing the results when comparing the lofical operators in … Continue reading

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PacktLib Hit or Miss

Anyone who is familiar with programming books have probably come across Packt Publishing even if they have not bought any of their books. As well as allowing people to buy books and e-books from their website they also provide another … Continue reading

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Calculating How Much Tax Was Added When Only Knowing The Percentage.

Recently I started work on an iPhone app and came across a small problem. As part of the application I needed to know how much tax was added to a value when I only knew the tax percentage and the … Continue reading

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Great Site For Free Books

Just a very quick post. I was recently watching an episode of Click. On this program they have a feature showcasing some websites. This week 1 of those sites was BookBoon.com.

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Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World (Bruce Schneier)

While doing my usual browsing of Amazon I came across Secrets and Lies by Bruce Schneier. I of course added this to my wish list and decided I would take another look at a later date. Some time later I … Continue reading

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Base64 Encode in Objective-C

I am currently playing about with objective-c and came across the need to base 64 encode some text. The following is what I came up with however it can obviously do with some improving (note to self must plan code … Continue reading

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