March 2011
21 posts
“We’re all friends at WWDC. If a session looks to be standing room only, feel...”
– Borkware’s First-Timer’s Guide to WWDC « Borkware Miniblog
Mark Dalrymple is awesome. I have a suspicion that someone at NeXT went around with a huge bucketful of awesome one day, because everyone I’ve met with a NeXT association seems to have a fair amount of it these days.
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“Turn off your MiFi/Clear/other wireless router. I’m so totally not kidding...”
– iPhone Development: WWDC First Timer’s Survival Guide, 2011 Edition
I can verify that the last sentence is true. I was absolutely fucking livid about this last year— my out-of-country iPhone was my only way to try & hook up with my wife & family who were on holiday there at the time,...
Anonymous asked: I've been looking at AQGridView for an upcoming project, and it looks like it should work for my needs.
I would like to load the content dynamically, not from static images in the project. The sample code adds the images on ViewLoad, this might be OK for the initial set, but where would I modify the code to intercept the user scrolling to the end of the list, so I can go fetch...
I would like to load the content dynamically, not from static images in the project. The sample code adds the images on ViewLoad, this might be OK for the initial set, but where would I modify the code to intercept the user scrolling to the end of the list, so I can go fetch...
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iPhone Development: WWDC First Timer's Survival... →
As always, Jeff posts the most comprehensive survival guide for WWDC. Worth every minute you spend reading it. DO IT NOW.
Luminary: An anecdote on tiled backgrounds for... →
monoceroi:
There has been a conversation about tiling “shelves” for AQGridView. Particular code written to back this article is under NDA, so I’m bound from showing it. Anecdotally, I’ve tried these approaches:
Some fantastic details on implementing tiled backgrounds behind an AQGridView from Evadne Wu. Well worth a read.
“As defendants note, plaintiffs are suggesting an award that is ‘more money...”
– Manhattan Federal Judge Kimba Wood Calls Record Companies’ Request for $75 Trillion in Damages ‘Absurd’ in Lime Wire Copyright Case
But the RIAA hasn’t achieved it’s ass-clownage quota for this quarter! They’re going to have a deficit! NOOOO!
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Possible WWDC Dates
Edit: Okay, I suck. It wasn’t any of those dates. It’s June 6-11.
So now that I’m back at Kobo I’m already looking to the future. Specifically, getting the team sent to San Francisco for WWDC. That necessitates some hunting for potential bookings at the Moscone Center there (assuming it won’t move to somewhere larger—if there even is anywhere larger).
The...
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bbum's weblog-o-mat » iOS 4.3:... →
In iOS 4.3, there are 3 rather low level functions in the runtime that provide a new kind of bridge between Objective-C and Blocks with a specific goal of facilitating the dynamic generation of method implementations. Specifically:
IMP imp_implementationWithBlock(void *block);
void *imp_getBlock(IMP anImp);
BOOL imp_removeBlock(IMP anImp);
Okay, this is officially awesome. I hadn’t...
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Fun with Objective-C: How to learn Cocoa →
funwithobjc:
This is something any experienced Cocoa developer has been asked at least half a dozen times: “What’s the best way to learn Objective-C/Cocoa?” I have two answers to this question: Be curious
Don’t be satisfied
He goes on to finish with the following epithet:
Know what a pointer is.
Memorize the memory management rules.
Never invoke -retainCount.
The second item there...
MediaSilo doesn’t know what REST means:
The following Rest call will authenticate a user session and
return an XML response:
http://api.mediasilo.com/?method=user.login&username=XXXX&password=XXXX&hostname=XXXX&APIKEY=XXXX
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Talk to me
Apple’s Installer doesn’t do uninstallation. It could, since a certain amount of metadata is left around, but that could be extended to something truly useful and Apple-like in its simplicity.
I have an idea which I think will fill this gap in a really neat fashion, and which will have benefits for both end users and developers. I’m working on this idea right now (doing actual...
nikf.org: Weekly App Review: Momento →
nikf:
Momento has been around a little while, however I only recently started using it (after glowing reviews from a number of friends). The premise is simple: enter your social networking credentials, and Momento will (when launched) create an archive of all your activity on those networks in a…
Looks like a really sweet little application. I’d so be buying this right now, if...
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“[W]orking with the iBookstore has been the most amazingly horrible, opaque, and...”
– Adam Engst, interviewed by eReaderJoy (courtesy of John Gruber).
Gee, it’s a good thing that there are other eBook store providers on iOS, eh?
“I very much like e-ink devices, but I also do much of my reading on my iPhone 4...”
– Robert J. Sawyer likes the Kobo iPhone app
“Rapportive co-founder, Martin Kleppmann, who came to the U.S. from Germany, told...”
– Why Silicon Valley Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are Returning Home
Xenophobia: the US haz it.
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Marco.org: A rare disagreement →
marco gets it:
The root cause for so much of the subscription ruckus, I think, isn’t that 30% number
— it’s that Apple pulled the rug out from under some major apps after the fact.
and:
their months or years of hard work, and in many cases, their entire businesses — can
be yanked by Apple’s whim at any time for reasons that they couldn’t have anticipated
or avoided.
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Apple's Defense Against Unfair Competition Charges
Mike Cane makes the case that iBooks is download-only to avoiud potential charges of unfair competition from the EU and/or the Feds:
If Kindle, Kobo, Sony, and others complain, Apple has these
lines of defense:
1) We’re all on equal ground with Kindle, Kobo, Sony, etc.
2) Our app has to be chosen and downloaded just like theirs
3) We can show you only X number of iOS users...
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“Apple’s recent App Store changes, however logical and empirically...”
– John Siracusa — The Apple strategy tax
A perfect post by Mr. Siracusa there. Love it.
Gordon Brown 'blocked knighthood' for Steve Jobs -... →
The former MP was told by Downing Street that the decision was
related to a failed attempt to attract Mr Jobs to Labour’s annual
conference. Given his status as a superstar of business and
technology, such an appearance would have been viewed as a
coup for Mr Brown.
How childish.