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Detecting and Delivering Images to Retina Displays

By Ben Doran On August 28, 2012 · Leave a Comment

In my previous post Detecting the iPhone4 and Resolution with Javascript or PHP I highlighted one way of detecting retina displays (or high-density displays) using a quick but effective hack which passed a value from JavaScript to PHP via a cookie. This article seems to be still popular to this day, and I regularly get about 500-1000 hits [...]

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Introduction to Google’s Closure Tools

By Ben Doran On November 28, 2011 · 3 Comments

I’ve recently been looking into Google’s Closure Tools, I thought I’d firstly post a simple tutorial on how the library works, what it is, how to set it up and provide a simple project. This tutorial isn’t designed to replace the excellent Getting Started Tutorial already provided by Google, but serves [...]

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Installing PHP Soap on OSX Lion 10.7.2

By Ben Doran On November 22, 2011 · 2 Comments

This is an update to my previous article: Installing PHP Soap on OSX Leopard 10.5.5

As a pre-note you need to ensure that you’re running PHP 5.3.6 and OSX Lion 10.7.2, if you try this on a different configuration it may not work. As of writing 10.7.2 is the latest version of the OS, [...]

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Flashageddon

By Ben Doran On November 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I don’t usually post comments on the state of the industry, people way more eloquent and learned than I am do a much better job at it than I could ever do. Also, since stopping blogging back in 2005, I rarely blog and this website is pretty much a dumping ground for things I want [...]

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Detecting Smart Phone Screen Orientation in PHP & Javascript

By Ben Doran On March 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment

DaveC asked the question about orientation

So I thought I’d drop a quick note on the code :

Some examples of this code working :

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Installing PHP Soap on OSX Leopard 10.6.4

By Ben Doran On August 3, 2010 · 2 Comments

Note: There is an update for this article: Installing PHP Soap on OSX Lion 10.7.2

I noticed this article that instructs you on how to install php_soap.so extension on Leopard 10.5.5.

However, this method doesn’t work for the newer versions of OSX and PHP currently out there in the wild.

So here’s an [...]

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Detecting the iPhone4 and Resolution with Javascript or PHP

By Ben Doran On July 19, 2010 · 24 Comments

The new iPhone4′s retina display presents a new (although nice to have) problem for web developers. How to detect and deliver content to a 300dpi screen. There’s a wealth of information about how retina display works, so I won’t bore you with the specifics, Apple basically put twice as many pixels in the same width [...]

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First Post!

By Ben Doran On August 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I thought I’d move to install wordpress while I continue to work on my portfolio. If you’ve come here and need to contact me regarding freelance or project work, check out my linkedin profile for more information.

Hopefully the new look site & portfolio should go up soon.

Cheers

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