Monthly Archives: October 2008

Tour of Karen’s studio

Posted on October 25, 2008 by Joe

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 →

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Follow the money

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Joe

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 →

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Rands In Repose: FriendDA

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Joe

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 →

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Foiled!

Posted on October 19, 2008 by Joe

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 →

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Getting involved with the City of Seattle

Posted on October 16, 2008 by Joe

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 →

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Pumpkin Pie, 2008

Posted on October 12, 2008 by Joe

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 →

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NDA backlog

Posted on October 11, 2008 by Joe

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 →

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SeattleBus Diary: UITabBarItem images…

Posted on October 11, 2008 by Joe

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 →

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SeattleBus Diary: problems getting a distribution build made correctly

Posted on October 11, 2008 by Joe

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 →

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SeattleBus Diary: Using CLANG static analyzer with an iPhone project

Posted on October 11, 2008 by Joe

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 →

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