http://www.roathe.com Where the web comes to die... Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:23:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.roathe.com/2010/07/iphone-4-reception-better-than-any-before-or-worthy-of-a-lawsuit/ http://www.roathe.com/2010/07/iphone-4-reception-better-than-any-before-or-worthy-of-a-lawsuit/#comments Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:58:37 +0000 Lane Roathe http://www.roathe.com/?p=229 The whole iPhone 4 antenna circus is just another a example of how selfish, in general, the world's population has become, at least in the "developed" countries (1st, 2nd, 3rd and otherwise). This post is just my use of the iPhone 4 issue to point out the absurdity I see nearly every day anymore.]]> http://www.roathe.com/2010/07/iphone-4-reception-better-than-any-before-or-worthy-of-a-lawsuit/feed/ 0 http://www.roathe.com/2010/06/fedex-ruins-my-iphone-4-day/ http://www.roathe.com/2010/06/fedex-ruins-my-iphone-4-day/#comments Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:45:56 +0000 Lane Roathe http://www.roathe.com/?p=225 FedEx shows me why one should never trust them (or actually any delivery service for that matter, see my UPS rant elsewhere!) to deliver your package on time ... or even at all!]]> http://www.roathe.com/2010/06/fedex-ruins-my-iphone-4-day/feed/ 0 http://www.roathe.com/2010/04/when-it-rains-it-pours/ http://www.roathe.com/2010/04/when-it-rains-it-pours/#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:20:47 +0000 Lane Roathe http://www.roathe.com/?p=217 After weeks of talks and interviews and waiting I got a great job offer, which I accepted. I then immediately got another three offers, any one of which I would have loved to accept. Talk about pouring when it rains! Find out the details on where I landed and which major Mac OS X application I'm working on.]]> http://www.roathe.com/2010/04/when-it-rains-it-pours/feed/ 0 http://www.roathe.com/2010/01/the-bank-is-available-on-itunes/ http://www.roathe.com/2010/01/the-bank-is-available-on-itunes/#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:44:54 +0000 Lane Roathe http://www.roathe.com/?p=193 Our latest title is available on iTunes. It is a 3D shooter with an interesting story, lots of neat weapons and great explosions!]]> http://www.roathe.com/2010/01/the-bank-is-available-on-itunes/feed/ 0 http://www.roathe.com/2009/12/how-to-background-load-and-cache-uiimageviews-images/ http://www.roathe.com/2009/12/how-to-background-load-and-cache-uiimageviews-images/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:01:50 +0000 Lane Roathe http://www.roathe.com/?p=179 It’s often the case that the apps I am working on are required to download quite a couple, or even a few dozen, images and display them in a UIImageView. In looking online I found a few different methods of loading image data for a UIImageView in the background, and a few examples of caching [...]]]> http://www.roathe.com/2009/12/how-to-background-load-and-cache-uiimageviews-images/feed/ 3