Archive for February, 2011
How-To: iPhone SDK – Play sound without disabling iPod playback
If you’re trying to ensure the best experience for your user, then you don’t want to interrupt their music playback when they launch your app – particularly if you are making a utility application or app that doesn’t have its own musical soundtrack. To ensure your sound plays over the top of the iPod, you can still [...]
Read moreTwo Bulls wins the Coca-Cola Brand App Challenge!
Last night in at the World Mobile Conference in Barcelona Two Bulls’ co-founder James Kane was on hand for GSMA’s announcement that we had won the Coca-Cola Coke Zero Brand App Challenge! James also got to pickup a check for $10,000 (he’s still working out how to fit it in the overhead compartment for the [...]
Read moreNoah Harlan to speak at IFP’s Script To Screen Conference
Two Bulls Co-Founder Noah Harlan will be speaking on a panel called “New Platforms for Writers” at IFP’s Script To Screen Conference on March 5th in New York City. Fellow panelists will be Carol Kolb, Head Writer for the Onion News Network (love!) and the writers behind the web series “Anyone But Me”. More details [...]
Read moreHow to: Solve Invalid method in request \x16\x03\x01
If you’re getting an errors when you try and load your SSL site in your browser, and you see lines like this in your error log: [Wed Feb 16 22:11:43 2011] [error] Invalid method in request \x16\x03\x01 Then it’s highly likely you are trying to access an non-SSL HTTP service using SSL. E.g. your SSL [...]
Read moreXperia This
At the Mobile World Congress today I got an opportunity to have a go of the new Sony Ericsson Experia Play. It’s not hard to see why it’s being billed as the “PlayStation Phone”. Running on Gingerbread (Android 2.3), it’s a beautiful device with heaps of features. But its focus is clearly gaming. You slide up [...]
Read moreHow To Solve: library not found for -lstdc++-static
If you’re compiling up a project or source code for iOS development purposes and you’re getting a message from the linker like: ld: library not found for -lstdc++-static Then follow theses two steps: Click “Project” -> Then “Edit Project Settings” -> Choose the “General” tab -> Select “Base SDK for All Configurations” -> and ensure [...]
Read moreCoke Mobile Contest: We’re Finalists
We’re very happy to announce that our Happiness Meets Appiness concept has been chosen by Coke as one of the finalists in the Coke Mobile Contest. The winners will be announced at the GSMA Mobile World Congress on February 14 to 17 in Barcelona. Our friends over at Mashable have a nice write up about [...]
Read moreHow to solve: mysql_exceptions.OperationalError: (1005, Can’t create table (errno: 150))
This occurs when you have a mixture of MyISAM and INNODB database tables in your database, and you try and run: python manage.py syncdb It’s due to it trying to create constraints across the two table types. So best to have a single database table type of either INNODB or MyISAM! Change your table types [...]
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