Oct 02 — 36
Often when I'm talking to somebody about how they're designing their app, I suggest they use Core Animation to implement the user interface. More times than I can count, I've gotten a puzzled look followed by the now-familiar "but I'm not really animating anything" response
Sep 26 — 19
I think people either don't know this or forget about it, but the OS X kernel environment is open source, which obviously is the core of the iPhone OS as well. It doesn't include all of the stuff at the GUI layer, but there is a ton of code in there that is generally kept in sync with current consumer product releases
Sep 04 — 45
You've probably heard of 280 Slides, which is an exceptionally polished Keynote-like presentation app for the web. The creators, 280 North, today published the framework and language used to create it, called Cappuccino and Objective-J, respectively. I only had a few hours to play with both, so keep in mind this is a very early review
Sep 01 — 14
A local non-profit youth football league had a fundraiser this weekend, called Marathon Flag Football. The event set a new world record for the longest continually-played flag football game — over 24 hours. I wrote the game clock, and it turns out Core Animation is fantastic for this
Aug 20 — 42
The Kodak Zi6 is a handheld, flash-memory-based video camera. You press the power button, wait about a second for it to start up, then hit the record button. Hit the record button again and the video is saved. Just plug it into a USB port and drag the video files to the desktop
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Follow your bliss.
