October 2011
3 posts
Check out @cwalcott’s latest screencast on UIAlertView Styles in iOS 5 http://t.co/YGsL1PcI
Follow up to yesterday’s tutorial on Core Location: how to use an NSTimer to prevent run-away updates http://t.co/egC402rY
Just posted a tutorial on CoreLocation in iOS for iOSDevNotes http://t.co/8at1xthj
September 2011
3 posts
RT @qrush: Extreme commenting, or, how not to write code: http://t.co/VhwGnzTb
Let’s Build NSAutoreleasePool - cocoaheads: http://t.co/iPkcT8N
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Let's Build NSAutoreleasePool →
cocoaheads:
It’s that time again: time for more programming craziness. Dallas Brown suggested that I talk about how NSAutoreleasePool works behind the scenes. I decided that the best way to do that would be to simply reimplement it, and that is what I’ll discuss today.
August 2011
2 posts
Want: Pocket Chain Saw http://t.co/btPiBy8
RT @engadget: SETI comes back from the financial dead, gets a check from Jodie Foster http://engt.co/nTdfz7
July 2011
5 posts
Lion spaces is going to be very had to get used to. Liking just about everything else though.
“@technoweenie: en(n+)d is amazing: http://t.co/Y5tu4a3” I really don’t like this proposal.
Why has it taken me this long to switch from bash to zsh? http://t.co/mXrqxSt
Finding myself clicking the tops of windows hoping it will scroll to the top.
Namespacing models in Rails 3 using autoload_paths
When working in a Rails app with lots of models, I’m often tempted to clean things up by namespacing. A project I’m currently working on has some 54 models and that number will only increase.
The problem with namespacing is that it introduces a lot of additional ugliness in the models. You have to change the class names and include :class_name attributes in order to find all...
June 2011
2 posts
RT @dhh: The Groupon financials are really disappointing :(. I thought they were making money hand over fist. But they’re loosing $100M+ …
Long past time to eliminate software patents. Unfortunately, Congress’ proposed “reforms” will likely compound issues. http://t.co/gOahv1F
May 2011
9 posts
And in other news, Twitter continues its crusade against 3rd-party developers. http://pulsene.ws/1MFrG
Why does Xcode 4 not automatically add the appid to entitlements? Xcode 3 did it right.
Go #Bruins!
So tired of the buzzword “consume”. It’s often used incorrectly and there’s almost always a better word to use instead.
NASA to Abandon Mars Spirit Rover http://pulsene.ws/1IEj9
Not understanding why only some of my tweets are showing up on my tumblog. Seems to be setup right, but only some pop up.
Also, I can’t help reading it in his voice.
Why is the Chrome Web Store a visual clone of Apple’s app store? There are other designs Google could have gone with.
April 2011
7 posts
RT @qrush: I can’t tell if this is a sick joke, or real. (Bonus fact, you need C# to make it work) http://www.fructoselang.org/
RT @TUAW: Three reasons Apple might ship the iPhone 5 in the fall http://aol.it/mNAI76 [post]
Oh, and it’s in an old wine bottle (ran out of beer bottles) when they were bottling it. Nice.
Don’t try to turn your services business into a product business. http://pulsene.ws/1p6LB
Chocolate Easter Bunnies Getting Crushed by Recession http://pulsene.ws/1oi78
Amazon Says It’s “All Hands On Deck” As Cloud Troubles Enter Day Two http://pulsene.ws/1o2dk
AWS is down: Why the sky is falling http://pulsene.ws/1nJkH
December 2010
1 post
May 2010
4 posts
BTW, @cloudsupport was great - they took care of the kernel update and were quick. Not a production server, but they treated it like one.
Upgraded my jaunty vms to karmic, but apparently Rackspace Cloud needs a custom kernel (or the instance won’t boot).
Use the 10/20/30 Rule to Avoid Disastrous... →
An oldie-but-goodie post from entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki directly addresses the kind of problems the military has with complex PowerPoint decks—boring read-throughs stuffed with too much on-screen text. His parameters for preventing audience paralysis is dubbed the 10/20/30 rule.
From Zero to a Million Users →
Xobni and Dropbox, two highly successful VC-backed ventures, had an impressive growth in their users within a fairly short period of time (2 million users within 2 years). Adam Smith of Xobni has a presentation discussing some many of the lessons learned from the experience of these two startups.
February 2010
3 posts
RT @adamsingy Great article on why IE6 just won’t die. http://j.mp/bUM0ze
First time doing Habitat for Humanity yesterday. Had a great time, though I’m sore today! I did some framing and put up sheetrock
Twitter posts should be importing now
Not sure why, but my Twitter updates stopped being imported to my Tumblr site. Hopefully they will again now.
December 2009
14 posts
Blech. I seem to be coming down with something.
RT @invotrak Invotrak for the iPhone version 2.0 released to Apple for approval! See the details at http://bit.ly/4F8edd/
Sorry to see Lowell go. It’ll be cool to watch him at 1st in Texas though. http://bit.ly/4XcKnZ #redsox
Chrome for the Mac is nice but I don’t like using something that’s an afterthought and crippled (no extensions).
Trying out Chrome for the Mac. It’ll take a lot for me to switch from Safari though.
OH: The hardest kind of person to retrain (ie switch courses) is the Ph.D.
RT @TUAW AT&T offers app so you can report crappy service. Huh? http://bit.ly/5qZ3hX [post]
What’s up with $AAPL? Down some 12+ points in the last week.
Just found a neat trick in photoshop: command click a layer’s icon in the Layers screen to create a selection of it. Great for masks.
RT @engadget FusionGarage plans media event to tell its side of the CrunchPad story http://bit.ly/5C9qTw
RT @qrush How the… http://to./