Jon Simon's Personal Development Site

If you're new to Macs, or always wondered what the best IDEs were for PHP development, then this may be helpful.

I've compiled a list of my favourite IDEs, and added a brief description for each. These are purely my editors of choice, so if you've got a few others in mind that I've missed, please feel free to comment and maybe I can add them to the list.

The new OAuth protocol has been quick to becoming the standard for accessing secure data via APIs - it's also mandatory on some sites, or soon to become.

I'm about to show you a 3-legged process for obtaining an access token, which will give you access to the persons account that approved your request. With this token, you'll be able to update their status, and pretty much do what they can do, minus altering crucial account details.

One majorly annoying issue that I stumbled upon, was the fact that I couldn't send multiple attachments using Intents to the Google Mail app. The quickest way around that was of course to compress all of the files into one (ZIP).

After searching around online, I didn't really find much on zipping files on your Android device - most of the articles were for standard java applications, which assumed that all your files were in the current directory that you wanted to zip.

So, I used what I could and whipped up my own wrapper class that allows you to easily zip files in Android!

After procrastinating for so long, I finally got off my arse and released the Model Release Pal for Android - beta.

As an amateur photographer myself, I believe that this will an invaluable tool.

I've also decided to release it for free, as it's still in the beta phase and still not 100% sure if I want to charge for it in the future.

I wanted to give a quick comparison of the specs on these phones, mainly because they interest me the most.

The thing that they all have in common, which obviously makes them great to begin with, is the fact that they all use the Android OS :)

Anyways, lets get down to the specs - I've placed them in a table format, for ease of reading and comparison.