What the Heck Happened to My Template?

June 17th, 2009
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Never ever ever use wordpress one-click updates!

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WWDC 2009 Keynote Reaction

June 8th, 2009
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Today was the keynote for Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2009. This is an event where traditionally all the new product releases and skunkworks projects underway by Apple are revealed to the world for the first time. Sometimes these events are landmark, such as with the announcement of the iPhone a couple years ago. Sometimes they’re [...]

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NimbleKit – HTML & JavaScript iPhone Apps

May 31st, 2009
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The question has been coming up a lot lately: how can we build iPhone apps using the familiar medium of HTML and JavaScript? Already there are several options available to us, including the popular open source PhoneGap framework from Nitobi. Alexander Voloshyn wanted to take a stab at solving the problem too – the result [...]

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EasyGlyph Updated – Kerning Fixed + Dropshadows

May 29th, 2009
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About a week ago I released a font system for the iPhone called EasyGlyph. I looked into switching over to a native true-type-font loader but came back to this because it still seems like the cleanest solution. I noticed there were some issues with the kerning so I fixed that, and added support for drop [...]

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Android Developer Challenge Round 2

May 28th, 2009
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It’s official, the Android Developer Challenge is back on – and the chance to win big money is real! Don’t miss this opportunity!

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How Trustworthy are Apple Rumors?

May 27th, 2009
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Someone sent me yet-another iPhone rumor for the June 17 launch of SDK3.0 and possibly a new hardware profile for the device. The meat-and-potatoes of this one is basically:

OLED Screen resulting in 1.5x battery life
FM transmitter
Glowing logo & rubber tread on back
Higher res camera
Super mega-fast CPU
Turn-by-turn directions

There are several reasons to doubt the veracity of [...]

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Palm Pre Launch Plans Leaked

May 26th, 2009
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Engadged got the scoop. An internal and secret marketing guide for the much anticipated Palm Pre was leaked to the public – and it reveals much about their pricing plans as well as their general marketing activities.
There’s nothing particularly groundbreaking in here except for some subtle marketing insights as to how they are positioning it [...]

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Will Apple Permit JavaScript-based Apps?

May 25th, 2009
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There seems to be a real movement afoot to provide means for developers to write native or near-native phone applications in ECMAScript. PhoneGap is doing it, Rhomobile is doing it, Palm Pre is doing it, and now Haxe is doing it.
HaXe has always been an interesting project. It’s basically a JavaScript compiler with targets for [...]

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EasyGlyph – Another iPhone Font System

May 21st, 2009
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EasyGlyph is an Objective-C based free font system for iPhone (and MacOS) that allows you to use Windows TrueType and OpenType fonts.

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iPhone Development Frustration

May 12th, 2009
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One of the most frustrating behaviors of the entire Iphone development stack is the constant iPhone brickings I have to endure (see image). Every week or so I’m forced to restore the phone from an image because XCode simply says “Could not support development.”. Oh that’s nice. THANKS you jerk. I get like 4 hours [...]

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