Debugging web apps on iOS from Windows using Firefox's WebIDE

The WebIDE in Firefox Developer edition (Shift-F8) supports Remote Debugging of browsers on  iOS and Android devices all via a single interface.

Once you have connected, just select the tab you want to debug from the Open App drop down menu.

You might need to reboot after installing Firefox Developer Edition for the iOS link to work

Internally it uses Valance

Super useful, especially if you don't have a Mac handy

Is Pura Milk GMO Free?

Dear Zac,

Lion is committed to providing products of the highest possible standards in terms of quality and food safety.

Lion products are not Genetically Modified (GM) or derived from Genetically Modified ingredients, and we ensure complete compliance with National, State and Territory Food Stan

Lion will not accept milk which contains GM material.

Lion has an extensive QA program for its farm supply base, to ensure its milk supply is of the highest standards in terms of quality and food safety.

Scientific evidence establishes that GM material present in stock feed is not transferred to milk, because of the nature of the digestive system of the cow.  Even so, in recognition of some consumer concern, Lion recommends that farmer suppliers avoid GM feed for their cows.

Routine testing on finished product is carried out to verify that products are confirmed as GM free.

Lion is committed to complying with the Australian and New Zealand Foods Standards Code, and other applicable legislation in relation to products manufactured or sold outside of Australia or New Zealand. 

To that end, all products are labelled in accordance with the requirements of the Australian and New Zealand Food Standards Code.

I thought this might be useful information for those who are concerned about GMO foods.


Personally, having read this article below, I now regret previously financially supporting Greenpeace

The war against genetically modified organisms is full of fearmongering, errors, and fraud. Labeling them will not make you safer.

iinet port forwarding http, https not working? SOLUTION

If you are an iiNet customer trying to port forward a home web server, remember to first log into toolbox and turn off the port forwarding first.

It may take up to 15 minutes to take affect.

Hopefully this might save you some frustration trying to solve this problem

If you need to check if your port is open, http://canyouseeme.org/ is handy, as is GRC's ShieldsUP

Port Blocking

This facility allows you to enable or disable port blocking on your ADSL / Dialup / Naked DSL account.

The following can be toggled:

• Port 25 (smtp) inbound and outbound
• Port 80 (http) inbound
• Port 135 DCOM SCM inbound
• Port 139 (netbeui/ipx) inbound
• Port 443 (https) inbound
• Port 445 Microsoft Windows File sharing / NETBIOS inbound

These ports are commonly used for security exploits and denial of service attacks. If, however, you would like to disable port blocking on the above ports, you can do so by clicking the toggle button above. Note: Please be aware that it may take up to 15 minutes for your port blocking settings to take effect

BROKEN: Web apps launched from the iOS home screen always reload

Sadly mobile Safari has a sordid history of being broken in each new release, but mobile web apps have been broken for a very long time (since circa 2010).

It appears that if you save a web page using a manifest to the homepage, it doesn't really work. Each time you click the icon from the homepage or switch back to the application, the damn webpage is reloaded, which is fine for a simple webpage, but we are talking about Web Apps.

It would appear that at blame is iOS and it's faux multitasking.

There is a lot of stuff over on Stackover flow about this, i.e. Stop reloading of web app launched from iPhone Home Screen . Alas, no solutions but advice to persist your application state in localstorage (or you could risk indexeddb which is another sad Safari story) but that doesn't solve the underlying problem.

Meanwhile, Chrome on Android just works a treat, Web Apps don't reload when you switch or launch them.

My main frustration with Web Apps via Chrome on Android is that the Fullscreen API doesn't allow you to expose the browser chrome and thus settings from full screen mode.

This means it's even more complicated for users wanting to re-enable navigator.geolocation support after ignoring or denying the first and only prompt. Try walking your parents thru that over the phone...

Please prove me wrong or tell me the next iOS release addresses this issue?

How to get real line numbers in Chrome when using a wrapped console.log function

If you use a wrapped console.log function in your javascript, it's rather annoying that the console log entries always refer to the wrapping function rather than the relevant line in your source code.

Fortunately, Chrome has a workaround Tips and Tricks: Ignoring library code while debugging in Chrome (remember to open and close dev tools as described in the article)

There are a number of good reasons to wrap your console log calls, firstly handling old browsers which don't always have a console and secondly, keeping a buffer of console logs which can be included when capturing and reporting client side errors

While on the subject of client side errors, Tracekit is a useful library which provides stack traces for javascript errors

Front runner for Political Meme of the Year

We don't accept the science. Scientists are crazies, whackos, weirdos & freaks #ScienceDenial #climatechange #auspol pic.twitter.com/iAHfTdxJyF
— CO2 Is Good For You (@geeksrulz) June 27, 2014

Liberals celebrate passing the Carbon Tax repeal bills in the HoR (again)

SOLUTION: When OSX won't recognise an exFAT external hard drive

A little gotcha with exFAT (a disk format like FAT32/NTFS etc which both OSX and Windows support out of the box) is that silly old OSX will only recognise the disk if the cluster size is 4,096 or less.

So if you can't see an external exFAT disk from a Mac, you probably need to backup the data and then reformat the disk with a cluster size of 4,096 or less.. if that doesn't work, carefully delete the partition from OSX and recreate it.

4,096 is rather shit for large files like photos, mp3, etc but anyway, it works

My obligatory Cory Bernardi op-ed

Cory Bernardi is a dickhead

My Mum's Summer Pudding Recipe

Serves 6

• 8-12 slices day old white bread
• 900 g of frozen fruit blackberries/raspberries/mixed berries but not strawberries
• 100g-170g white sugar

Mum adds 1 chopped green apple (per pudding) diced to make the fruit go further.

Rinse a 900 ml pudding basin with cold water. Trim the crusts from the bread slices. Cut a circle from 1 slice to fit the bottom of the basin. Cut enough wedge-shaped pieces to fit around the sides. Press bread in firmly to line the basin making sure there are no gaps. Reserve a few pieces of bread to cover the top.

Trim the fruits and put them into a saucepan. Add the sugar, cover with a pan lid, and cook gently for 5 minutes, or until fruit is softened. Turn hot fruits into the lined pudding basin. Cover the top with the remaining pieces of bread and put a weighted plate on top. Allow to stand overnight.

Remove the weighted plate and place a serving plate over the pudding. Invert pudding on to the plate and serve with cream.

Mum's tips:

1. Very little extra trouble to make two instead of one (recipe is for one).
2. If you add a little bit of extra fruit and sugar it will give you extra juice. (Sugar and fruit must be in the same proportions).
3. Any type of pudding basin can be used (Not sure if metal OK because of the acidic action of fruit on metal).
4. The pudding should come to about half a cm from the top of the bowl.
5. If the top layer of bread is still white add a bit more juice.
6. Then cover with two layers of glad wrap tightly. With weight on top put in fridge.
7. When ready to eat remove glad wrap, loosen gently with a knife and put a plate on top and invert.
8. However careful you are, there are always white patches and stain with juice.
9. Remaining juice put in a bottle in the fridge and pour over pudding to serve plus cream.

Update: Mum got the original recipe from Katie Stewart's Cookbook ISBN 0 330 28556 4 (1985)

Best German Prepaid Sim Card 2013

Most German prepaid SIM cards generally suck with tiny 200mb 3G data allowances, don't even bother looking for prepaid LTE/4G...

The best by far seems to be Congstar, it's all in German, including text images, so Google Chrome translating isn't always helpful, so you will need to have a smattering of German to work it out and register.

You can by a prepaid SIM card from DM for €8.49 which includes €10 credit, or from any http://www.telekom.de shop, lookout for the pink T sign, for €9.95.

(BTW Congstar uses the t-mobile network, supposedly the best in Germany, but they only sell the SIM packs, no in store support)

There are two SIM packs, one in plastic which lets you choose options, the other one has a choice of two plans.

If you are like me, only after data, you can get 1Gb for €12:90 for 30 days which I think is the best you will find. 3Gb is only €19.90

Viel spass!

UPDATE

1. You can find out how much data you have used via pass.telekom.de, (not via WiFI or WLAN as the Germans call it)


2. This is annoying, surf packet (data) is per month, so once you have used up your data, you are speed limited to 64k. You can't upgrade to a higher plan until the next month, which is really dumb. You can however, via speed on, purchase a 500mb upgrade, via the pass.telekom.de, so I would really recommend the 3GB option

3. The live chat support via congstar.de is quite good and if you ask them to speak English they can :)