The Wave of the Future, Google Wave
Friday, May 29th, 2009 Posted in Software Development | No Comments »Google showed off their new Wave system at Google I/O this year. The thing is pretty amazing. It's email, IM, chat room, twitter, collaboration software all rolled up into one piece of software. Developer APIs will be available that allow you ...
Check out stackoverflow.com
Friday, October 10th, 2008 Posted in Software Development | 3 Comments »Quite simply stackoverflow.com is a question and answer site for programmers. From the about page: Stack Overflow is a programming Q & A site that's free. Free to ask questions, free to answer questions, free to read, free to index, ...
I coulda had a Google V8
Friday, October 3rd, 2008 Posted in Software Development | No Comments »So I've been playing with Google's new V8 JavaScript engine that was released along with Google's Chrome browser. V8's big claim to fame is that it compiles JavaScript code to machine language instead of interpreting it. This gives a nice ...
Apple Fixes iPhone SDK Provisioning Profiles
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 Posted in Software Development, iPhone | 7 Comments »The release of Beta 7 of the iPhone SDK has resulted in lot of frustrated developers. When downloading the new SDK developers were informated that they would need to re-create device provisioning profiles before they would be able to install ...
Apple we have a problem…with the beta 7 SDK
Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in Software Development, iPhone | 1 Comment »So I downloaded the new beta 7 iPhone SDK that was released today. I updated the development environment and updated the OS on my iPod Touch. That all went very smoothly. The developer web site said that new provisioning profiles ...
iPhone SDK Program Portal Distribution Page Updated
Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in Software Development, iPhone | 4 Comments »Since the beginning of the iPhone SDK beta the Program Portals Distribution page has been empty. With today's announcments at WWDC and the release of iPhone SDK beta 7 these pages have been populated. The distribution page now has three tabs, ...
Exploring iPhone Graphics Part 3
Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in Software Development, iPhone | 6 Comments »Last time we created a simple iPhone application that made a ball bounce around the screen. This time we are going to extend the last example to use the accelerometer to create a gravity influence on the ball. So as ...
Exploring iPhone Graphics Part 2
Friday, April 25th, 2008 Posted in Software Development, iPhone | 9 Comments »In Part 1 of this series of articles we drew some simple graphic primitives on the iPhone display. In this article we are going to look at how to do some simple animation. The goal of this example is to ...
Plotting a Sine Wave with the iPhone SDK
Thursday, April 17th, 2008 Posted in Software Development, iPhone | 2 Comments »Got the following request from Leo on the Exploring iPhone Graphics Part 1 article: Could you give me a quick primer on how to draw a sinus curve (or similar curve) with the data coming from an array? Here it is: #define PI ...
Exploring iPhone Audio Part 7
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Posted in Software Development, iPhone | 31 Comments »In the last article of this series we started looking at iPhone audio playback. This time we are going to see how to actually play an audio file that our applicaiton has recorded. The startPlayback method sets everything up for audio ...

