Nov 28
To launch AppStore directly from your application (e.g. when you give the user an option to buy full version in your free app, and/or similar use cases), following code snippet may be used:
NSURL *appStoreURL= [NSURL URLWithString:@“http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=293671688&mt=8″];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:appStoreURL];
while this code snippet should work fine with an iPhone OS 2.0 device, there is a bug (AFAIK) in iPhone OS 2.1 which prevents it from properly
opening links starting with http://itunes, e.g. if you use the following code
NSURL *appStoreURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@“http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=293671688&mt=8″];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:appStoreURL];
it would fail and safari would complain that it cannot open the page as too many redirects have occurred. Just replace http://itunes with http://phobos in the url and it should work like a charm.
written by ishaq
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Nov 17
I upgraded my installation of wordpress over the weekend and the “can’t login to admin panel” problem kept me pulling my hair for two days. I am listing down the steps I did for the sake of the record.
1. I cleared my cookies and authenticated sessions, even tried login from a different browser, no success.
2. Reset my password, still no success…
3. Upgraded my wp-config.php to include 3 secret keys (taking help from wp-config-sample.php), no success…
4. Stumbled upon this thread, but it didn’t help me since I wasn’t using Admin SSL.
5. Then I came across this article, so I renamed my plugins folder, logged in, renamed it back to plugins, and everything works now.
and God, Akismet is a blessing. I didn’t have Akismet for 2 days and my inbox was full of all sorts of spam comments from wordpress.
written by ishaq
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Oct 22
Tintash (my workplace) has recently updated its site and they have put caricatures and short bios of the whole team in the ‘about’ section. Here’s what I look like:
It’s not so true representation of me since I, usually, do not dress formally around here, it does look pretty funny though =)
The company’s page describing the team and their caricatures (including this one) is here.
P.S.: Please don’t tell me it looks like Bin Laden. 
written by ishaq
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Jul 10
Recently I was trying to configure apache2 to act as a proxy to mongrel (Ruby on Rails), so I added the following directives to my httpd.conf
<virtualhost *>
ServerName test.example.com
<proxy *="">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</proxy>
# Proxy directives
ProxyPass /phpmyadmin ! # don't want proxy forwarding for phpMyAdmin
ProxyPass / http://localhost:3000/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:3000/
ProxyPreserveHost on
# Logfiles
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/test.example.com.error.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/test.example.com.access.log combined
</virtualhost>
</pre>
However, as soon as I used to restart apache after adding this code, it always threw 503 - Service Unavailable. The error log showed a number of lines like this one:
<pre>[Thu Jul 09 11:37:13 2008] [error] (13)Permission denied: proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:3000 (*) failed
In short it has to do something with permissions in SELinux which doesn’t allow httpd to connect to network and the solution is this command:
# /usr/sbin/setsebool httpd_can_network_connect 1
Thanks to the help found here and here.
written by ishaq
\\ tags: RAD, uncategorized
Dec 26
Marry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of my readers.
I know the post is a about 10 hours and 29 minutes late , but I was away for Eid Holidays and didn’t have access to internet 
Regards,
MI
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