The use of CSS sprites is a valuable techique for any web developer who wishes to optimize his web site, making it both faster for users and better ranked by search engines. However, it usually involves more work to pack the images in a single sprite sheet and to update them when the site evolves. …
Scraping App Store reviews, page after page…
Someone pointed out that my little scraping script was fetching only some of the reviews of his app. Indeed, it was only considering the first “page” of results. So, I’ve just updated it to grab ’em all. The new version is available at the same address: here. By the way, the script was born to …
The Lion, the Witch and the Xcode
…or maybe it was “The Lion, the Bug and the Xcode“? Anyway, if you just upgraded your system to Lion, then downloaded the new Xcode from the App Store, tried to run it just to get welcomed by a sparkling crash along the lines of UNCAUGHT EXCEPTION (NSInternalInconsistencyException): Couldn’t load plug-in ‘com.apple.dt.IDE.IDEiPhoneSupport’ while firing fault …
Special Tablatures offer coming up this week
A very special Tablatures offer will be available this weekend at Bits du Jour: a whopping 46% off the regular price! If the only reason why you haven’t started writing your music with Tablatures yet is because you were thinking about the price, you have no excuse now. 🙂 Don’t miss your chance to take …
Scraping Mac App Store reviews
You have some products on the Mac App Store, you would like to know what people think of them but you can’t bother checking for reviews one store at a time? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. I can’t understand why Apple made it so difficult to check reviews for your own products in iTunes Connect, …