Site Outage
Thursday, April 17th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »This site will be down some time later this evening. I need to do some re-organization of the directory structure. It'll be obvious when it is down. ;)
Twitter Updates for 2008-04-10
Thursday, April 10th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »Watching Troy while doing some contract C++ development. # Working on an iPhone animation example app # Bedtime goodnight # Back at work. Start over again. # Pulled off my pattern matching/morphology project to work on bugs for 3 weeks. fun! # One think I ...
Twitter Updates for 2008-04-09
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »Watching new episode of Doctor Who...and installing Beta 3 OS on my development iPod Touch. # Development iPod is back in action! # Back at my day job. Finishing up a C# GUI app used to classify scanned documents and generate feature ...
Twitter Updates for 2008-04-08
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »Doing some contracting work and also working on new series of articles talking about iPhone graphics for http://trailsinthesand.com # Looking at PSOD (Pink Screen of Death) on my Development iPod Touch. # Oh man, my MSDN Universal subscription expired! # Downloading VMWare Fusion ...
My Development iPod is now a pink paperweight
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »The iPod I use for development now only shows the pink screen telling me to connect to iTunes. The Xcode Organizer has this to say about my iPod: "This device is expired. Please install a newer version of the OS." Apparently ...
April Fools
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »4/1 is upon us once again. I've been fooled in the past but I'm not going to let it get me this year! Don't beleive anything you read today... Gmail Paper Yogurt Scratch and Sniff Books Defuse Bombs With A Wii Remote YouDigg Search tomorrow’s web, ...
Where is the iPhone Simulator Filesystem Stored?
Saturday, March 29th, 2008 Posted in General | 2 Comments »While working on the Exploring iPhone Audio Trail I wanted to look at the audio files that I was recording. My application is getting it's sandboxed Document directory using the following code: NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains( ...
Welcome to Trails in the Sand
Friday, March 7th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »Hello my name is Peter Dragon and welcome to my Trails in the Sand. I'm going to be writing about a variety of topics here. I'm not really sure where this blog is going to head but I want to let ...

