Category: Development
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Rsync Backup on Ubuntu Server
I work on some servers at my University. Recently our RAID server went out, which means that we could potentially lose all student and professor data across several of our servers. I was tasked with getting some sort of backup going from our main servers to a local backup server. After thinking about how to…
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How to Add a Google Map to your Website with Geocoding
Inserting Google Maps into a website is CRAZY easy! Usually what I would advise someone to do is to: Go to Google Maps Search for the address that you want to show on your map Grab the embed code Insert embed code in your website Could it get any easier? Well, that really depends on…
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Youtube UIWebView with Storyboards
While working on the iMustangs project, we decided that it would be a good idea to include the school fight song. I’m sure we could have found a way to play a .mp3 file, but we decided that it would be best to create a video so that we could display our university logo. What…
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Adding Custom Overlays to iOS MapKit Framework
Series This is part 2 of a 2-part series on how to create custom overlays for the MapKit framework on iOS. View part 1 of this series here. Creating Custom Overlay in iOS Everything we have done up to this point has been to create the tiles we will use in our project. Now that…
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Creating Custom Overlays for iOS MapKit Framework
I am part of a team developing an iPhone app for Midwestern State University. I am particularly responsible for developing the map that we are going to use for the app. Because I had a lot of detail I wanted to show on our map – Faculty/Commuter/Resident Parking Lots, labels for different buildings, key points…