One thing I understood clearly using ARC, is memory management. Strange, I admit, because this never happen to me back in retain/release old school method. But in some way this semi-auto-powerfull-Icountforyousoyoudon’thaveto technology helped me to use more and more often Instruments to watch for object Allocations. In this new project I’m working, I’m using Cocos2D, [...]
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Notify
Well, it seems that I’m mastering APNS (push notifications). Its actually quite cool and it gives you lot of potentials. The only limitation is the payload max bytes to send extra infos, but at the end, 256 bytes are enought to send a good amount of infos. 512 bytes would be nice, let’s see if [...]
ECG
My brain misteriously decided to shut off, I wonder if its because I try to apply rules of abstract coding over the rules of the universe [!] clip of the day: 2010 – The year we made contact “Hal voice test”
Randomly non-sense
After insert more than 7000 records by hand into a database for a client my brain goes blank… Cold fusion or just brain fused? tune of the day Crystal Castles “Cry babies”
Code cleaning
I’m always in the search of the perfect code, the one that is good to read, clean, easy to understand. Rules can be apply to it (from Apple guidelines and Google Guidelines too), but I’m never satisfacted with the results. Time to create my own coding language? Maybe… A.I. approacing ^_^ tune of the day [...]
Abstract
What is abstract? Code without form or a form without code? I always try to implement code that is fully dynamic, never bounded to anything, reusable, but at the end, code is always written and problems raise. Form without code, goal succeded ^_^ tune of the day Tyco “Human condition”
Windows Phone, RIM, Windows 8 are still not worth to support
According to a report out yesterday from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, with 0.7% and 4.1% of total sales in the US, RIM and Windows platforms may still not be worth the effort to support for your next project. Same goes for the Windows 8 app store. The latest OS from Microsoft still has less then 4% of [...]
In the begin there was …
NSLog(@”Hello world!”); This, for many, it is the begin of everything. Well, [geekly] speacking. But I had to start with something. Coding is great, good, makes your life better, it’s like a daily vitamin pill. The downside? Permanent neck and shoulder pain ^_^ tune of the day: Kraftwerk “Computer Love”
Surgeworks launches Catholicpedia, the Original Catholic Encyclopedia for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch (press release)
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, (December 8, 2011)—The Divine Office Catholic Ministry in partnership with Surgeworks, a Salt Lake City-based application developer and graphical interaction design firm, has announced a new app for the Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch based on The Original Catholic Encyclopedia. Introducing Catholicpedia The Catholicpedia App makes The Catholic Encyclopedia available on iPhone, [...]
HP TouchPad sold out, but WebOS has a not-so-bright future ahead.
In my opinion, WebOS was extremely promising, but a couple years late. If HP acquired palm 12 months earlier they would have had better chances. I had a nice brief discussion about the HP TouchPad and WebOs the day the news came out. It was just very clear to me that WebOS and the TouchPad [...]
iOS 5 AirPlay Mirroring, Apple living room revolution coming this fall.
AirPlay Mirroring displays anything that appears on your iPad 2 onto your TV screen, wirelessly via the latest Apple TV box (the small black one). It works with the core iPad 2 interface as well as any apps, games, videos, and so on. It even adjusts for portrait or landscape mode, completely mirroring everything you [...]
Bible App: awesome update coming to the Mac App Store!
The first Bible reader on the Mac App Store is just about to get a lot better, and it’s ready for Mac OS X Lion! We improved our Bible App on three main fronts: Contents, Navigation and Search features. The Bible App is so easy to navigate, you don’t need to be a scholar to [...]
How to close, quit and restart apps on iPad and iPhone
This is a classic: an app stops working correctly, so you hit the home button and open the app again thinking: “I restarted the app but this didn’t fix the problem”… But the truth is that iOS on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch handles multiple apps running at the same time (multitasking) by saving the [...]
Mobile Apps Looking Forward
With the markets for mobile devices and applications growing and changing so quickly, it’s difficult to see too far into the future except to say “more.” An article from FastCompany shows that the average smartphone user is consuming 435MB each month, increasing 89% over the last year. Popular apps such as Netflix and Pandora can [...]
Will Apple iCloud API support Android, Windows?
At WWDC 2011 Steve Jobs introduced iCloud and mentioned a couple of things while doing so that made people wonder if iCloud will be an iOS an OS X specific technology or if it will be made available to 3rd parties platforms and establish itself as an industry standard instead. Apple’s CEO mentioned iCloud would [...]