Tag: Technology

Objective-C and the iPhone

6th August 2008 | 0 Comments

With the launch of the iPhone 3G and the AppStore, developers around the world are rushing to grab a piece of this new market. Mac developers have a distinct advantage since the iPhone leverages MacOS X 10.5 APIs and frameworks. These interfaces are written in Objective-C, which is sort of in between C and C++ with a few unique pieces thrown in to spice things up. I'm sure many developer are scrambling to find tutorials. I found a couple that may help.

What’s happen to you Digg?

26th July 2008 | 0 Comments

I was just reading about California banning the sale of trans-fats on Digg and I was shocked to see the majority of the comments were against it. The commentators were claiming it infringes on their rights and they didn't want the government babysitting them. Now I hate to lump people into groups, but this is classic Libertarian thinking and its pretty naive of them. Trans-fat are a public health hazard that have been linked to coronary heart disease. They only exist because they're cheap. They're like the food equivalent to asbestos, but I'm sure that group would defend their right to buy that crap too. I remember when Digg was geeky, but now it seems to be home to a bunch of political extremists and that just plan sucks.

Damn you strict datatypes

23rd March 2008 | 0 Comments

Maybe its due to the fact that I haven't programmed in Java for while, but Java's strict data typing is really pissing me off. If I build an array of string arrays why do I have to typecast each of the string arrays when I access them? It doesn't make any sense, they've already been typecast once. I have a feeling this is going to be a problem when I start coding more in AS 3.0 too.

Firefox 3 is Awesome

21st March 2008 | 0 Comments

I tried an early beta a while back, but Firefox 3 Beta 4 on the Mac is stable enough to replace Firefox 2. It's fixed some rendering issues that I've been seeing a lot of in the last few months and it feels snappier. Of course there are a few annoying things too. The new back and next buttons suck. I don't know what they were thinking, but they look out of place. Luckly, when I toggle small icons the buttons look "normal". The other annoyance is the dropdown list on the location bar. The two lines look ugly. So now I have to use the oldbar extension to make it tolerable.