In mid December I attended iPhone dev camp Colorado, and among many other things, learned about the very cool ability of XCode to speak the value of variables and other items at breakpoints while debugging. XCode uses whatever voice you have configured in OS X to do the synthesis, and spits out not just variable […]
Read MoreiPhone development joy 0
Seeing as it’s been a year now since I began coding for iPhone, I felt like rambling a bit on that topic… I got my 1st gen iPhone in September of 2007, and knew within minutes of actually using the thing (rather than just drooling over photos and videos) that iPhone was going to be […]
Read MoreJavaFX 0
another day, another scripting language… I’ll reserve in depth comment until I’ve had time to thoroughly explore JavaFX, but the choices facing today’s software folks are staggering to be certain. Personally, I’m finding it harder and harder to keep anything in my own memory, syntactic details and the like. More often than not these days, […]
Read MoregRApple updated to reflect new Apple refurbished store layout 0
Apple updated their refurbished Mac store and in the process broke gRApple. So, I updated gRApple to reflect the Apple site changes, it’s available here Apple actually improved the parse-ability of the refurb store this time around so the changes were pretty simple and involved removing some older extra bits in the code as well […]
Read MoreAndroid SDK 0
I’ve been developing for iPhone in my spare time for ~8 months now (jailbreak and toolchain prior to the official SDK). For the sake of trying out the competition I snagged the Android SDK and associated plugins and whatnots for Eclipse, and proceeded to implement a simple app. My 2c is that Apple wins on […]
Read Morejpeekaboo v1 released 0
Alrighty, I finally put the finishing touches on jpeekaboo tonight, enough for others to try it anyhow. v1 is out, and is essentially at the same place as where I had my Stickies fork, only without all the extra unused stuff, and in java! native distros for linux, OS X and Windows are available from […]
Read Morejpeekaboo, java based auto hide drawer note 0
pwsidenote is becoming far more painful than I’d hoped to strip down and end up with what I want. In response, I’m shelving it as is and starting a new project, jpeekaboo. Same goal, auto hide drawer note that can be pinned to any screen edge and sync content offsite. I also need an app […]
Read Morepwsidenote, an auto hide drawer style sticky note application 0
I’m always on the lookout for small apps that help me improve my efficiency. Despite many wanderings into the land of GTD apps, I always come back to a simple plain text scheme, using either post-it like applications, or a simple text editor. On the OS X platform, I use sidenote. On Windows, I use […]
Read MoreCentralized vs. Decentralized Storage 0
A number of times thus far in my career, common storage has been a sizable bottleneck in the application frameworks in which I’ve worked. Centralized solutions are slow and easier to manage. Decentralized ones are relatively rare, complex, and less than ideal. One decent solution is DRBD, which when combined with OCFS2 or GFS can […]
Read MoreHotkey consoles for all 0
I still really like the hotkey triggered drop down console notion. I’ve been a fan ever since finding Visor for OS X. Today, I was wondering if I’d have to come up with my own solution for Windows when I came across an existing way provided by someone else. Granted, it isn’t as friendly as […]
Read MoreForward, the quick iPhone call forwarding toggle 0
I decided to whip up a little iPhone application to help with an issue I have with the existing call forwarding feature. You have to go into settings, then phone, then call forwarding, all to enable/disable forwarding. I wanted something quicker. A toggle that turns it on/off each time you run it. The result is […]
Read MoreVisor (OS X) and Tilda (Linux) 0
I’ve been using visor on OS X for a while now, and decided to add it and a linux analog to the SoftwareGoodies page. They are both a drop down console application that allow you to press some key sequence to “activate” a terminal. I’ve found that since I typically have multiple virtual desktops in […]
Read Morenifty little Ruby application: gRApple, added to itch+scratch ware page 0
Recently, I’ve been keeping a close eye on the refurbished apple store page for Macs. They have a number of machines, laptop and desktop alike, that go for great prices from time to time. Many of the prices are ~15% less than retail, but occasionally, they approach 30% off! There are two issues though: 1) […]
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