As you may, or may not, be aware, just before I started my position at CSU I started a web design and development company with a friend — Platypus Web Productions. Being the lead, and only, developer I set to work on creating a basis for the majority of work I would be doing for [...]
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Objective-C Dot Notation
A few weeks ago O’Reilly was having an eBook sale where you could buy any of their eBooks for $10. Seeing as I had just ordered an iPad, I decided to buy their Learning iPhone Programming book. The little bit I know about developing for the iPhone has come from reading (most of) Cocoa Programming [...]
Posting To Notifo With Python
Just after getting to work this morning I discovered an iPhone app and web service named Prowl. It provides a means for sending arbitrary push notifications to your iPhone. This is something I had on my todo list to design and write very soon, so I was very excited to find it. The only downside, [...]
Day 3 iPad Review
As the title indicates, I’ve had an iPad for three days now. I had intended to wait for the next iteration (likely in a year), but a friend sent me a message a couple weeks ago suggesting that we should make an iPad game. I decided that sounded like an excellent idea and proceeded to [...]
4KB Sectors
I just want to give a quick note here about 4KB sectors in newer hard drives. If you follow technology at all, you are probably aware that new hard drives from Western Digital are using their “advanced format technology.” All this really means is that each physical sector of the drive is 4096 bytes (4KB) [...]