Quickfix: Skype for iPhone

  • 31 March

I was really psyched when Skype announced a native iPhone client... And today I was a bit less excited when found out that the app crashes every time I try to enter my account details. But fear not, there's a quick fix!

Here’s a quick fix that worked for me:

  1. Instead of trying, entering your existing account details, tap on Create account
  2. Tap on the first field– the keyboard should appear
  3. Tap on Cancel and go back to the previous screen

At this point you should be able to enter your details into the log-in fields without causing the app to crash.

REMEMBER: Remember to restart your iPhone after the installation!

Everything that has a beginning, has an end…

  • 21 March

You guessed it, this is one of my top favorite movie quotes of all time – it's what Agent Smith says to Neo at the very end of the trilogy. But that's not what I wanted to post about.

The day has come, after years of watching it, Battlestar Galactica series ended. It was an awesome show, I can say it was the top 1 on my list and probably for many others– hell, I know a guy who started pirating shows just because BSG was aired only in the States he (and me, apparently) didn’t knew BSG was aired in European TV.

So Say We All ;-)

Sly– the super-snazzy selector engine

  • 19 March

It's been quite a while now, since the initial release of MooTools 1.2– it would seem that much happened in the world of JavaScript frameworks– Dojo and jQuery got updated quite significantly, the last one gained a whole new selector engine, which works pretty snappy.

The time to get a new iteration of MooTools couldn’t get here any sooner… No one knows exactly what will the new version bring and no dates are released to the public. One thing we do know is that the selector engine (the very base of every framework) will get updated.

Meantime, in the Selector Engine War, a new player called Sly got promoted to a Colonel rank. Sly is a child of Harald Kirschner (of FancyUpload fame).

The speed result tests are pretty impressive– it’s at least 4x faster than MooTools’ currently embedded selector engine and twice as fast as the base selector engine for the 1.3 release.

And as much as I’d like to see this being included inside MooTools 1.3, the chances for it, are pretty slim. But fear not! If somebody out there, would like to use Sly as the default selector engine in MooTools, here’s how:

Window.implement({
	$$: function(el){		
		return Sly.search(el);
	}
});

Include this snipplet before your code/class/whatever.

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