January 2010
6 posts
Webinar vs. Whitepaper
I’m really amused at the outcome of this Googlefight: Webinar vs. Whitepaper. It would seem to me that you just can’t have a webinar without a whitepaper. This gave me the idea for a site that measures the Enterpriseyness (a perfectly cromulent word) of a domain using Google. Keep an eye out for it…
You Can Always Do Less →
Sounds good to me. When doing iPhone development you can quickly descend into very complicated territory by choosing to do thing that seem simple on the surface, like changing the color scheme of your app.
Snazzy Apple Font Styles on the iPhone
If you want to reproduce the nice dark inset label style that Apple uses all over the place, the magical formula is a shadowColor of half-opaqe white and a shadowOffset of {0, 1}. Use it wisely.
Also, the deep blue text color like you can see in the labels at the top of a person’s info in Contacts is 0.121569 0.156863 0.223529 1 (r g b a, respectively).
GitHub Quick .h/.m Switch Bookmarklet
I wrote a handy little bookmarklet for iPhone or Mac developers who want to be able to switch between an interface (.h) and implementation (.m) file quickly while browsing a project on GitHub.
The code is hosted in this Gist paste, and will be updated if I come up with any improvements.
Can't build for the iPhone simulator?
Xcode decided to throw a wrench in things today and ended up unable to build my iPhone project for the iPhone Simulator. If you ever find yourself unable to compile your app for the simulator, and you have a build results window filled with linker errors (starting with errors about how each framework is of the incorrect architecture), then just apply this simple fix:
Go to your target’s...
Another Blog?
Tumblr is the new Blogspot, right? Maybe I’ll actually post here.
