Monthly Archives: March 2008

madhouse failure

Posted on March 24, 2008 by Joe

I haven’t posted again about the madhouse chili because, well – frankly, I screwed it up. It was bad to the point of pitching out the whole batch. I got the ingredients to have another go, and this time I’m … Continue reading →

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madhouse chili

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Joe

The house may soon be uninhabitable – I decided that today was the day to start making what I’ll call “madhouse chili”. I’m labeling it “madhouse” because it’s kinda crazy. It’s a super-messed up version of chili con carne with … Continue reading →

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screencasting with ScreenFlow and VMware Fusion

Posted on March 20, 2008 by Joe

I’ve decided to take a page from some of the open source goodies I’ve seen and start using screen-casting as a means of documenting and explaining some things at work. Most of what I do at work happens on Windows … Continue reading →

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Cherry Blossoms

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Joe

Saw this on the way to work, and couldn’t resist taking a quick photo.

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my first computer

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Joe

Wow, someone was talking about first computers online, and I found a link on Wikipedia to the TRS-80, my first computer. (I had a Model I) I was sort of jealous, to be honest, of all those other folks that … Continue reading →

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Getting a grip on Erlang

Posted on March 16, 2008 by Joe

I was sort of curious about Erlang for a while now – just because it was touted a bit as a high performance concurrent programming language. It’s a world of different thinking – the closest I’ve really come into it … Continue reading →

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Syncing data from your iPhone app to a desktop… and other “iPhone SDK bugs”

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Joe

I was reading Paul’s post on iPhone SDK bug reporting and sort of pondering that list. I’m not sure I care specifically about a bug for being able to run a background application so much as I want to be … Continue reading →

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Karen has a blog!!!

Posted on March 10, 2008 by Joe

It took her leaving home for 8 weeks, but Karen’s started a blog to keep in touch with friends and family. If you’re interested, check it out at http://baublicious.blogspot.com. Now I’ve just got to get her hooked up with a … Continue reading →

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bugreport for iPhone SDK: Enable remote events to 3rd party applications

Posted on March 8, 2008 by Joe

I’m mentioning it here in case anyone else would like to reference/jump on this particular bandwagon. rdar://problem/5788673: Summary: Please enable some mechanism for 3rd party applications to receive events or run in the background to poll for events from remote … Continue reading →

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Java on the iPhone – coming from Sun…

Posted on March 8, 2008 by Joe

AppleInsider is reporting that Sun will make a Java available for the iPhone… following a report on InfoWorld where Eric Klein (VP of java marketing at Sun) was quoted on a number of details – mostly blather that rolled up to … Continue reading →

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