Day-trading with @stockguy22 made me 25% in 2 weeks

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Dave Orchard
on August 29, 2009 6:05 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Through Dec to March of this year, I did a fair amount of day trading with decent results.  Thanks to twitter, I found @stockguy22 and his online chat forum.  I decided to actually learn from a professional day trader what...

Creating an archive of an iphone app from unix: ditto

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Dave Orchard
on August 10, 2009 4:34 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
I've automated the build for our latest couple of iphone games, and I wanted to automate the finder's compress function.   Nothing from the terminal on OS X exactly reproduced the finder's compress size.The closest was ditto -c -k --sequesterRsrc --keepParent. ...

iPhone tip: Installing directory containing symlink requires run script phase in XCode

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Dave Orchard
on April 24, 2009 9:42 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
XCode does not allow a fairly simple directory structure that contains a symbolic link to be copied to an iphone without using a shell script, such as running a dashcode project on the iphone.  Xcode's target copy bundle resources or...

Yet another obscene CEO buyout at Chesapeake ($CHK) and the margin call

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Dave Orchard
on April 3, 2009 8:21 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Mindnumbing that McClendon margins himself out of his equity then the shareholders have to redo his contract and give him more.  Via fundmymutualfund: Chesapeake Energy (CHK) CEO Aubrey McClendon With New Shady Compensation Deal; I was Right in My PredictionWhat...

Vancouver real estate picks up

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Dave Orchard
on April 3, 2009 8:12 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
I have been noticing a number of sold signs showing up in our neighbourhood, so I thought that the real estate market was picking up.  Turns out I was right according to MLS numbers for March.  I do have a...

iPhone memory leak detection using clang

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Dave Orchard
on March 5, 2009 6:05 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
One of the most common problems in iPhone development is memory leaks.  I found the Performance tool offered by Apple to be pretty useless at finding memory leaks.  A much better tool is clang.  It found 23 valid memory leaks...

iPhone threading and screen refreshes success

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Dave Orchard
on February 25, 2009 6:26 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
I realized a while ago what I had done wrong in my previous attempt at displaying a progress bar and the screen wasn't refreshing.  The problem was that I was not invoking the method to update the progress bar on...

iPhone SDK 2.2.1 and Exchange Sync has broken AddressBook API calls

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Dave Orchard
on February 25, 2009 6:26 AM | | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)
The iPhone SDK 2.2.1, which added Exchange Sync with Google, has broken the ABRecordSet function!  I think the use of the Exchange means that the API can't be used to update records, perhaps because of a conflict?  Or because the...

Interesting stock chart comparisons of industrials/techs and oil stocks and contango

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Dave Orchard
on February 12, 2009 6:31 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
I compared some of my tech stock are doing compared to indices and I wanted to see a contango $USO play.  Every trader has to ask the question about stock picks and whether they are beating the market or not. ...

High performance WordPress

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Dave Orchard
on February 4, 2009 11:15 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
We examined a wordpress site as part of the Building High Performance Web sites workshop at Web Directions North 09.   The site we examined was the vancouvertwins.com site that I'm the online guy for.  We ran YSlow and the IBM...
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Elsewhere, Dave:

  • tweeted, "Olympic torch relay goes along Cambie on thursday afternoon. Should our family skip school/work and watch it? hmmm.."
  • tweeted, "@CluelesssCom I can't stand working in a non gcol language after I moved to Java IN THE 1990S - Thats >10 years. harumph. :-)"
  • tweeted, "Not sure yet about the new facebook. I like not having a gajillion requests from Zynga games, and one click to remove each app/game."
  • tweeted, "@katrinaarcher I'm disappointed there was no utterance of "How about them Apples?""
  • tweeted, "@james_clark But Objective-C garbage collection isn't in the iPhone, and my guess is not in the iPad."
  • tweeted, "RT @blaine: Just released rePublish, my pure-JavaScript ePub reader. http://romeda.org/rePublish/ — A blog post will follow after #SHDC."
  • tweeted, "So sorry for Brian Burkes loss"
  • tweeted, "RT @loic: RT @arrington: Great post on HTML5 v. Flash by one of the guys who created Flash http://tcrn.ch/a32Rel"
  • tweeted, "Played 2 games of ulti last night after social games social, sleep at 12:30, up at 6 with kids. Watching markets a bit today."
  • tweeted, "RT @bitsweat: Rails 3 beta is LIVE: gem install rails --prerelease"
  • tweeted, "Q2l.org quest to learn mentioned"
  • tweeted, "I enjoyed watching the @grousemountain tram on Human Target last night."
  • tweeted, "RT @victoriarevay: @daveo Nice article! http://ow.ly/13Yh6"
  • tweeted, "Why I think the iPad is great: http://www.ayogo.com/techblog/?p=28"
  • tweeted, "RT @Carnage4Life: Microsoft, America’s most famous and prosperous technology company no longer brings us the future - http://nyti.ms/aI5QW4"
  • tweeted, "At the VanJS talk on Node.js, javascript running on server. Looks really interesting. Big downside is no debugger yet."
  • tweeted, "RT @Scobleizer: Cool, @bootuplabs is bringing a bunch of new startups to the world. I love incubators who help entrepreneurs."
  • tweeted, "We have flowers! http://tinyurl.com/yfs8dau and http://tinyurl.com/yggu8t5"
  • tweeted, "Wow! Just got an email from somebody using my non-maintained 14 year old Net categorization page suggesting a replacement for a broken link"
  • posted Flowers in early February

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