Monthly Archives: October 2008

Tour of Karen’s studio

A little while ago, Karen and Leah decided to make the leap and get themselves some studio space outside the home. The went in together and found this great place down in the SODO – an open loft space in … Continue reading

Posted in Ranting and Reflections | 3 Comments

Follow the money

I’ve followed (and used) Lawrence Lessig’s work in Copyright legislation for quite a number of years. If you don’t know who he is and what’s he’s doing, I recommend taking a look. Wikipedia has a pretty decent biography, or you … Continue reading

Posted in Geekstuff, Ranting and Reflections | Leave a comment

Rands In Repose: FriendDA

If you haven’t read Rands in Repose before – now’s a good time. He’s got a particularly good article up today: Rands In Repose: FriendDA: The lesson of the Holy Shit is that when you stumble upon a truly revolutionary … Continue reading

Posted in Geekstuff, Ranting and Reflections, iPhone, mac | Leave a comment

Foiled!

I went out to see if I could find one of those new MacBook Pro’s in person and see what it felt like – if the new keyboard was significantly different and exactly what it was like to use a … Continue reading

Posted in Geekstuff, Ranting and Reflections | 2 Comments

Getting involved with the City of Seattle

I saw a posting last week on Meet at the Pig talking about this CCTAB thing and that they were looking for people to apply to participate in it. I didn’t even know something like the Citizens’ Telecommunications and Technology … Continue reading

Posted in Geekstuff, Ranting and Reflections | 1 Comment

Pumpkin Pie, 2008

Sugar pie pumpkins are available again… I baked one down last night, and today it’s becoming the first pumpkin pie of the season for me. The recipe I use is pretty minimalistic, but it’s from one of my favorite cookbooks: … Continue reading

Posted in Ranting and Reflections | 4 Comments

NDA backlog

Since the NDA has been, or is in, the process of being lifted, I thought it was high time to post some of those blog notes that I’ve scribbled down in the past while I’ve been working on Seattle Bus. … Continue reading

Posted in Geekstuff, Ranting and Reflections, iPhone | Leave a comment

SeattleBus Diary: UITabBarItem images…

SeattleBus uses a the UITabBar for the primary navigation around the application. With each UITabBarItem you can set a few attributes. You can choose to use a system defined UITabBarItem, or you can specify your own name and image. It … Continue reading

Posted in Geekstuff, iPhone, mac | Leave a comment

SeattleBus Diary: problems getting a distribution build made correctly

This isn’t new news – just bits that I couldn’t post because of Apple’s NDA on the technologies behind the iPhone. I wrote the results a little while ago – but I wanted to put something up here for Google … Continue reading

Posted in Geekstuff, Ranting and Reflections, iPhone, seattlebus | Leave a comment

SeattleBus Diary: Using CLANG static analyzer with an iPhone project

Like a number of other Mac developers, I caught the word and then the bug for using Clang Static Analyzer. I remember when I first caught wind of it, hearing about it on twitter and spotting a number of del.icio.us … Continue reading

Posted in Geekstuff, iPhone, seattlebus | 5 Comments