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iPhone 4 Reception; better than any before or worthy of a lawsuit?
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.
FedEx ruins my iPhone 4 day :(
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!
OOP != classes, but may == DOD
Think about how the system will use your data, and design your objects so that their data is optimized for highest performance. Then code your OOP design in whichever language is best for the task.
How to background load and cache UIImageViews images
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 [...]
It sure does snow in Kansas!
I learn that it can really snow in Kansas! Some early pictures off my iPhone included, took more with the camera, but forgot to bring along the computer cable Why doesn’t this thing have bluetooth? (Another thing about the Panasonic I don’t like).
*Warning* Do not install software included in Panasonic products!
The software included on Panasonic CD’s installs extremely invasive “pop-up” programs that are installed in a manner designed to make them as difficult to remove (uninstall) as possible. That’s virus behavior, not application behavior, shame on you Panasonic!
First photos of updates to S2000
Well, I updated the S2000 again, only this time it wasn’t for performance, rather it was on appearance. :wow: There is still a few things I want to get done, but for the time being I’m “finished” mucking with it. Time to get to the track and step on the gas The engine bay came [...]
Snow Leopard Breaks All 3rd Party Apps by Removing Creator Codes!
Is Apple trying to put all other software makers out of business? I mean, if an end user creates a document in MyWordProcessor but it opens in TextEdit all of the time, which app are they going to keep using?
UPS continues tradition of poor service
Please do not use UPS to ship packages, all you are going to do is piss of your customer!
When is a WebOS “OK”?
So I’ve been wondering for a while now as product announcements get made and the online and press communities react: when is a WebOS a good thing?
CAContextInvalidLayer and setFence:count
Sometimes what looks like the obvious solution works just fine… until something goes horribly wrong and you get an error that has “absolutely no connection” to that change you made two days ago that is “working just fine”.

OOP != classes, but may == DOD

Mar 222010

Think about how the system will use your data, and design your objects so that their data is optimized for highest performance. Then code your OOP design in whichever language is best for the task.

Google code repo

Apple //, Development, Games, Mac OS X, Windows, iPhone No Responses »

Dec 312009

I created a svn repository on google’s code hosting for all of my misc. open source efforts that do not justify individual projects themselves (as, for example, HexEdit does). I have several items ready to share yet still need to do a bit of cleanup, indicate the license, etc. before posting. The repository will be [...]

How to background load and cache UIImageViews images

Development, featured, iPhone 3 Responses »

Dec 182009

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 [...]