Archive for January, 2012

Creating custom gesture recognisers for iOS

A custom gesture recognisers allows you to simplify the job of detecting specific touch patterns on a iPhone or iPad. Although some basic gestures (long tap, double tap, pinching and zooming, and so on) are already available from Apple out of the box, more complex finger movements must be detected by yourselves. By implementing your [...]

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SQL JOIN: inner and outer

When joining two tables in an SQL statement, there are two options. You can use an inner join, or you can use an outer join. Let’s see what the differences are. Share this:EmailFacebookSharePrintRedditStumbleUponDigg

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Multiple SSH/SCP invocations

In writing shell scripts sometimes you want to be able to execute several SSH or SCP commands in a row. Unless you have set up authorised keys on the server, each one of the commands executed in the script will require that the user enter their password for the connection to be established. Or you [...]

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