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Monthly Archives: December 2009
Happy New Year
I just wanted to wish you a happy new year. Thank you for taking the time to stop by and read what I write. This site is tiny by the standards of the Internet, but that just means each reader … Continue reading
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Welterweights
Since the Floyd Mayweather/Manny Pacquiao fight seems to have run up on the rocks at the moment, let me seize this opportunity to issue a modest proposal: Paul Williams (who says he can still make 147) vs. the winner of … Continue reading
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Deep Copying (Built-In)
I’d previously presented some code that made deep copies of plists. I recently discovered that this code is superfluous, due to the CFPropertyListCreateDeepCopy method. You can invoke this function with a call such as this: testData = CFPropertyListCreateDeepCopy(kCFAllocatorDefault, [NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:path], … Continue reading
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Merry Christmas
s = ‘s = %s; print s %% repr(s)’; print s % repr(s) (Put it in a file, e.g. ps.py, then run python ps.py | python | python | python | python | python | python | python | python … Continue reading
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C99 Arrays
Today, I learned that a cool “new” C feature had snuck up on me. This was added in C99, and it has apparently been integrated into Objective-C (where I stumbled across it) as well. Briefly, this sort of thing is … Continue reading
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Cat Racing
Seth Godin today: Someone asked me where I get all my good ideas, explaining that it takes him a month or two to come up with one and I seem to have more than that. I asked him how many … Continue reading
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Churchillian
Never give in–never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. — … Continue reading
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Taking Pictures
Today it’s just a quick note on using the iPhone’s camera to take pictures from within your app. They’ve made this really easy. Begin by reading the section in the iPhone Application Programming Guide that covers the UIImagePickerController class. That … Continue reading
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Vetting
Scott Adams has a post up with an interesting bit at the end: We’re only a few years away from a point where no mating will ever occur because no one will pass the background check. If you knew everything … Continue reading
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Core Graphics Problems (Update)
A while back I wrote about some Core Graphics code that gave rise to memory management errors when (a.) compiled for iPhone OS 3.0 and (b.) run on the iPhone Simulator; the core of the problematic code looked like this: … Continue reading
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