April 2011
8 posts
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“JavaScriptCore is a part of the open source WebKit project. Instead of using the...”
– iOS and JavaScript - for Real this Time! - PhobosLab
This news has me very excited indeed. If Apple does indeed allow apps which bundle the source for an otherwise private library, this makes it much more likely that I’ll be able to create a customized epub layout engine based on WebCore....
“Reading becomes more social. We can share not just the titles of books we are...”
– http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/04/what_books_will.php
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“The current custodians of ebooks — Amazon, Google and the publishers — have...”
– The Technium: What Books Will Become, via Jeremy. (via nikf)
THIS.
“Books matter, they really do. They matter vitally as part of our culture, they...”
– One Genre to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them
:sadface:
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“You should encrypt your backups, if not for security reasons, for a big...”
– Love this little gem from Marco Arment, dropped casually while discussing the Guardian’s security-paranoiac news of the day.
Anonymous asked: First, awesome grid view! I'm attempting to add zoom functionality to an AQGridView using a pinch gesture; similar to how the pinch gesture works in the Kindle app. I can get the scale needed from the gesture but am unsure how to apply the scale in such a way that the grid cells are recalculated. Currently I'm setting the portrait height and calling reloadData.
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“You should always use the NSLocalizedString[…] macros for every user...”
– Cocoa with Love
A-fucking-men. I tell this to people all the time. And I still see the occasional UI string value which isn’t wrapped in NSLocalizedString(). Sigh.
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