July 2010
12 posts
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“It’s telling that the criticism surrounding this issue has shifted, quickly,...”
– Daring Fireball: Antennagate Bottom Line
To this cynical observer, the situation sounds to me like this:
There was a flaw discovered in a highly desirable product from a company which makes many such desirable products, and people hoped to get something free because of it.
Now they’re...
Anonymous asked: I really like your AQGridView. I had a quick question about relating to it. When I tap on a cell, I want a full-screen view controller to show. But instead of just adding it, I want it to animate from the cell (kind of like in iWork, where when you tap on a document, it 'animates out' of the thumbnail in the document chooser). How would I do this?
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Pixelmator 1.6 →
nikf:
… a tonne of other features and improvements …
A metric tonne rather than an Imperial ton is it? And you call yourself an Englishman…
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ShareKit →
nikf:
This looks super-handy: a[sic] drop-in web service sharing for iOS apps (think posting items to Twitter, Facebook, Delicious etc). It’s open source on GitHub, and entirely customisable. Whilst it’s intended to be used in its entirety, if you’re wanting to (say) implement Twitter sharing in your own iPhone app with xAuth login you can still use ShareKit to implement the service on its...
Anonymous asked: I am wondering whether to buy your book "Pro Objective-C", now available in alpha. Is there a table of contents available, not just the sales-speak available on the a-press page? I trust you and Mike Ash, two legendary Objective-C gurus, but I'd like to see if it's not much above my level.
“When we were first acquired, we were not taking long lunches and coffee breaks....”
– Mini-Microsoft: The KIN-fusing KIN-clusion to KIN.
A member of the team which produced the KIN, a former Danger employee, responding to accusations that his team’s conduct was the cause of the device’s failure.
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http://github.com/AlanQuatermain/NestedPlistEditor →
Ever wished you could do something like this:
defaults read com.apple.loginitems read \
SessionItems.CustomListItems.Name
…to get a list of the ‘Name’ attributes of all your configured login items? How about to print out their paths?
defaults read com.apple.loginitems read \
...
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“I imagine some mesh of C Blocks, messages and Go’s channels to play an...”
– Jesper makes some guesses about what a new programming language from Apple might look like.
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“Apple isn’t anti-developer, they’re pro-customer. Linux is pro-developer and...”
– A comment on “Open always wins, unless it’s Symbian or LiMo or Openmoko or Qt”.
For context: this is a reply to someone complaining that Apple doesn’t use “standards like C++, instead of strange niche technologies list Obj-c and Interface Builder.”