iPhone development, part 2
A few weeks after my first post regarding iPhone app development, I’m slowly being driven more inane with the entire process. I’ve found my feet with Obj-C, but there are new headaches to contend with…
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Image processing with Flash - work around the BitmapData size limit
Working with huge images in Flash's ActionScript 3
Earlier articles
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iPhone app development - a noob’s perspective
I get the feeling that many who come to Objective-C find it a difficult language. This may be due in part to the App store bandwagon - if which I admit to being a member - but I can't help but view the language as, well, annoyingly constructed.
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sIFR height issue
Even though sIFR 3 has been out for ages, there are still a lot of folks using version 2. It still works quite nicely, but yesterday I came across a very strange bug that, as far as I can tell, derives from Flash rather than the sIFR code.
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3rd parties and authentication
Do the benefits of an OAuth-style authentication system outweigh the cost to the user experience?
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3 things I learned today…
all of which probably should have been blatantly obvious.
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Stored formulae with MySQL
Utilise MySQL's SUBSTRING_INDEX function to operate on stored values.
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Laziness
Even if you don’t do any programming, you can probably recall messages from an interface of some kind - whether that’s on the web, in a game, on an ATM display - that reads along the lines of: “You have 1 widgets(s) available!”
Ignite - a(nother) JavaScript Library
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James Padolsey
Nifty way to parse URLs with the DOM
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Snook.ca
An interesting proposal for CSS 'matrix layouts'.