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Matt Reid

Solo Entrepreneur | Lead Software Architect

OpenShift is a great PaaS for developing your webapp. When it gets to production however, you don”t want any downtime when you are deploying. Luckily there is a simple fix (presuming you set up a scaling app). Find the cartridge you want to scale (jbossews-2.0 on mine) rhc show-app yourapp should...

In this post I will explain (based on very little background research) why Firefox os is using the wrong app submission process. I will conclude that Firefox os ultimate demise will be caused by a lack of apps. you have been warned.I should start by saying I really like the...

We recently had a very frustrating problem where an HTML5 canvas wasn’t loading in FireFox. The canvas was showing the error “Canvas Dimension Not set”. The solution: The browsers was zoomed in. Resetting the zoom fixed the problem.  

Responsive images are all the rage these days with the advent of HTML5/CSS3 webapps. In order to improve the speed of our webapps on mobiles, we don”t want to be sending huge 500kb images to a tiny mobile browser and have them scaled down by our responsive @media queries. That”s...

When running git pull to pull changes from a remote repository, there could well be changes in the remote and your local repo. This causes conflits and git will fail to merge.  You will see the error Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result. Fortunately in git >...