April 2010
1 post
http://finallyathoughtortwo.tumblr.com/ →
To my new followers, I actually post mainly to this tumblr.
January 2010
1 post
merlin:
Appreciating Donald Murray
(a/k/a, “Quit trying to make pigs out of sausage.”)
This used copy of Writing for Your Readers cost me US$2.97 used on Amazon Marketplace. So, imagine my surprise yesterday, when it arrived and I opened it to discover it’s autographed by Don Murray. With a funny little self-portrait doodle and all!
Made my day. Plus, it seems like a good omen, right?
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October 2009
1 post
"what is al-Qaeda" Vice magazine 94 issue too... →
June 2009
1 post
March 2009
6 posts
“He loves creation as long as he is creating it, but his love turns away from the...”
– via themillions via The Man Without Qualities
Nerdapalooza →
Nerdapalooza coming to Orlando this summer!
February 2009
1 post
Elizabeth Gilbert TED Talk →
Just show up to work, and let your muse do the rest. Great outlook at creating.
January 2009
3 posts
Never before seen interview with the creator of...
Someone Else: Q.
Me: Inspiration is a tricky subject, and one in which artists like myself find it a little difficult to discuss (mainly because I lack any semblance of self-awareness). I'd say I was most inspired by hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com mainly because I'm really interested in whether the earth has indeed been destroyed (since my physical form needs earth for sustenance).
Someone Else: Q.
ME: I wrote it on a Macbook Pro purchased specifically for creating isit2009yet.com. I figured if I was going to spending so much time working on this beautiful website I would need a workhorse computer (not to mention sexy).
Someone Else: Q.
ME: Well SE, that's an interesting question. I guess the world deserves an answer. Your probably thinking it was some technical glitch related to some bad leap year code, but it wasn't. Your probably thinking it was just a simple FAIL where some dude was going to manually update it at midnight local time but forgot to because he was at this really kick-ass party and it never crossed his mind, but it wasn't. No, it wasn't those things. It was a commentary on how dependent we've all become of technology, and especially these new "Single Serve Sites". I've never seen a "SSS" fail, and so I started relying on them for everything. Finding out about the election, whether it was, in fact, a tuesday, and confirming my suspicions that the world had not yet been destroyed. I found myself not able to make a decision unless there was an appropriate SSS that would help me out (which made things in the bedroom a bit awkward). Finally I had a wakeup call when my laptop broke and I accidently spent more than 3 hours away from the internet. I rediscovered the physical in those three hours, and by making isit2009yet.com fail so horribly, I hope that maybe I can pull a couple of more souls out from the fake and into the real.
Infinite Jest Tour of Boston - a set on Flickr
Infinite Jest Tour of Boston - a set on Flickr
I Dream in Malcolm Gladwell by Benjamin R. Cohen -... →
December 2008
2 posts
StateStats →
A tool to find correlations between google searches and other stats, such as VotedForBush and VotedForObama, using a correlation algorithm known as Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient.
Guess what? Automated news doesn't quite work. -... →
As Gabe says, this is sorta a “no brainer”
November 2008
6 posts
The Screens Issue - If You Liked This, Sure to... →
“the ideas that eventually become the shows we work months and months on sort of...”
– Jad Abumrad from Radiolab the best radio show ever created explaining in a live Q&A at themornngnews.org how Radiolab shows come together.
“There are those nights when you think you should burn it all up and go back to...”
– From Brent Simmons Advice for Indies explaining why faith actually plays a big role in being a successful independent software developer.
Obama Inbox Zero →
Seems getting to Inbox Zero won’t be a problem come January 21st for President Elect Obama.
“FiveThirtyEight.com is based on a Blogger.com template. The graphs are designed...”
– My favorite wake-up-in-the-morning-and-frantically-check-to-calm-liberal-nerves site FiveThirtyEight.com’s entire explanation of the behind the scenes technology buried in a mountain of an faq which clearly proves FiveThirtyEight.com was created not by a developer but by a passionate...
What Has Driven Women Out of Computer Science? →
A slight rehashing of already exposed ideas on why women are becoming decreasingly represented in Computer Science. There are many different theories, but one statement, I think, can be considered plainfully true: that Software Engineering would be much better off with a healty balance. Attending RubyConf with 500 other males and a half dozen woman was depressing, disheartening, and creepy. ...
October 2008
4 posts
Cocoa with Love: Sliding UITextFields around to... →
Theocacao: Core Animation Isn't Just for Animation →
A touch of Cocoa: inside the iPhone SDK: Page 1
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The Omni Mouth » Using frameworks in iPhone... →
September 2008
7 posts
furbo.org · Lights Off →
HotCocoa Is Pretty Damn Hot →
Can’t wait for the HotCocoa talk at Rubyconf 08
“Secondly, my NDA agreement with Apple is quite frankly none of your business :)...”
– Source
Cocoa with Love: Parametric acceleration curves in... →
Theocacao: First Look at Cappuccino and... →
Google Objective-C Style Guide →
Cocoa with Love: Application Design in AppKit →
August 2008
68 posts
Changing Default.png is impossible
If you launch the “Clocks” application made by apple, switch to a new tab, close the application, and then launch it again, you’ll notice the “Default.png” image has changed. This is in fact impossible to do unless you are Apple, so please, save the 4 hours and work on something else.
Local iPhone 3G sues developers for "Gross Abuse"...
In perhaps a sign of things to come, a local iPhone has filed a lawsuit against area developers claiming they “Grossly Abused” its SDK. “I just can’t believe it,” remarked the 1 year old iPhone as it exited the courtroom Friday afternoon, “what they’ve done to me can never be undone.” Clearly distraught, the iPhone’s lawyer had to continue...
How to add photos to your iPhone Simulator
Just open MobileSafari in the simulator and “hold down” on an image and select “Save Image”
CocoaOniguruma: Simple and tiny Objective-C... →
iPhone GUI PSD →
Butter
Cocoa Samurai: Xcode Shortcuts: Original Documents... →
Never use these “Shortcut” docs but you may, so here it is.
Get good at iPhone app development
marco:
I keep getting emails from people who want me to develop iPhone apps for them. The very few people I know who have this ability are booked solid for the indefinite future. There’s a big market here for developers.
If you’re looking to learn a new programming language and platform, and you’re at least moderately familiar with C, I strongly suggest that you look into this.
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Cocoa Is My Girlfriend » Cocoa Tutorial: libxml... →
The very basics for reading xml using libxml
UI and us - User Interaction Reviews, News and... →
New UI blog by the Co-founder of plasq.com, which makes Skitch
Video Tutorials for Apple Products
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Just watched the XCode tips and tricks one, pretty good stuff, also very new.
Cocoa with Love: Cocoa Application Startup →
I have no words
radioAe6rt » Regex on the iPhone →
Just in case we ever need to do regex’s on the iPhone
rentzsch.com: Love, Hate and Objective-C →
Good post on the up’s and down’s of Objective-c by someone who actually knows what they are talking about (not some flamepost from a recent ex-java programmer)
Safe from the Losing Fight » How to get... →
Man, all sorts of good stuff tonight.
F-Script Home
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Turns out F-script is this really slick set of tools for “scripting” Cocoa applications. You can even inject it into existing applications and explore the application. The F-script shell makes my mouth water.
Making the HUD, Item 1: A Frame-Themed Party →
This is an old article, but it introduced me to F-script which is totally worth the link.