I'm looking for engineering, advocacy and/or standards work in the mobile and/or web applications areas.  I bring great experience in native and web based iPhone apps, PhoneGap, Ruby, Java, the LAMP stack, Javascript, HTML5, CSS, casual social games on Facebook,...

Remembering Something Bigger

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A take on "expecting someone taller".August long weekend was time for the LV Rogers High School class of 1985's 25 year reunion.  It was a lot of fun seeing many of my classmates.  Thanks heaps to Tonnie Stewart for organizing!...
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...
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. ...
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...
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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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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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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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...
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...

Elsewhere, Dave:

  • tweeted, "@stockguy22 Thx! Tho I'm really looking for a greek specific instrument."
  • tweeted, "@stockguy22 Are you playing greek EURO exit? Any strategies to suggest? I'm thinking of shorting $DRYS"
  • tweeted, "Dear #whatwg contributors. Welcome to the huge club of people that have followed process, made reasonable proposals and been screwed."
  • tweeted, "I'm sad that my favorite, and pretty much only, current tv show 'Awake' has been cancelled."
  • tweeted, "RT @purplecabbage: Just made mobile-spec testing 1000x easier! http://t.co/XAVOsamx @phonegap"
  • tweeted, "RT @RobCottingham: If you haven't seen it yet, set aside a few minutes for an xkcd tour de force, "Every Major's Terrible": http://t.co/ ..."
  • tweeted, "RT @Uranowski: The NDP broke up The Beatles and convinced Nickelback to get together. #HarperHistory"
  • tweeted, "RT @KarlBelanger: "The NDP refused to come to the aid of men when Mordor invaded Gondor." #HarperHistory"
  • tweeted, "RT @purplecabbage: Actually played cuttherope.ie inside WP7 Cordova thanks to my mouse event additions. Wish @pixellabs would open sourc ..."
  • tweeted, "So happy Boston lost! Only team I cared either way about since wednesday"
  • tweeted, "@NachoMan @dccp I'm pretty sure $aapl jumped on 35m iPhones sold and b revenue .."
  • tweeted, "RT @plhw3org: HTML Working Group Changes http://t.co/0K2ClNjw #w3c"
  • tweeted, "http://t.co/26AEJRQh"
  • tweeted, "RT @ianb: Affidavit from call centre worker revealing Conservative Party's manipulation of voters: http://t.co/Juw9OfCZ (via @sexytypewr ..."
  • tweeted, "RT @ianbetteridge: Great news for Windows Phone early adopters - "Sources: current Windows Phone devices will not get 'Apollo' upgrade" ..."
  • tweeted, "Client side Perf twitter eng summit #engsummit (at @twoffice) — http://t.co/hjPP6WJm"
  • tweeted, "Mobile Monday cross platform app building with phonegap, trigger, tiggz... (at Verizon Application Innovation Center) — http://t.co/JGPIL35i"
  • tweeted, "Awesome! Pittsburgh hated more than Canucks!"
  • tweeted, "RT @TechCrunch: Apple Patents A Tool Allowing Non-Developers To Build Apps http://t.co/TLDCGZ8N by @sarahintampa"
  • tweeted, "RT @igb: Want to work on cloud-scale deployment tools? Salesforce is hiring in Vancouver and SF! http://t.co/J1idL7Pk #dreamjob #salesf ..."

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