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

| | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)
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

| | 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

| | 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

| | 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...
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, "RT @douglasp: iTunes Store is down. Maybe they are adding Facebook Connect back in. :-) <- LOL"
  • tweeted, "RT @greghoekstra my story on Vancouvers @SebSalas who shattered the #GrouseGrind record @GrouseMountain last week http://tinyurl.com/248hocj"
  • tweeted, "I just saw the term "web 2.0" for the first time in a while. Feels like "e-", "Net-", "Web-", very out of date and not yet retro."
  • tweeted, "RT @kaler: Please sign this NDA: 1) Don't be a jerk. x ______________________"
  • tweeted, "RT @igrigorik: and to cap off the weekend.. gem install rails -v 3.0.0 # woooot! 2 years in the making. congrats to all 1,600 contributors!"
  • tweeted, "My door to YVR via Canada line in 21 minutes."
  • tweeted, "Published github repo of js minification steps for @phonegap projects. http://bit.ly/cXAqTj"
  • tweeted, "RT @ninavizz: Such a fun & awesome way for a new mom to spend her child's naptime!! http://milasdaydreams.blogspot.com/ /via @flawedartist"
  • tweeted, "Great, ITunes connect has groovier financial reports. But WTF isn't July available? It's end of August!"
  • tweeted, "Salas sets new Grouse Grind record of 23:48! http://bit.ly/aG6cM5 Maybe all the new steps helped a bit?"
  • tweeted, "@stockguy22 I covered my RIMM short thx to your charts + K on the trade. $HOU.TO and $HNU.TO killing me tho :-("
  • tweeted, "I wonder if Facebook will move into groups and calendaring. They have all our friends and connections.."
  • tweeted, "RT @bramcohen: The rate of decay of manganese-54 drops a day and a half before a solar flare (!!!) http://bit.ly/b78PhB"
  • tweeted, "RT @WSJ: The 62-mile traffic jam near Beijing, already ten-days-old, could last until mid-September http://on.wsj.com/ciG7oM"
  • tweeted, "Sent pull request on http://github.com/DavidOrchard/html5demos to @rem for some fixes to his awesome html5 javascript demos"
  • posted IMG_4044
  • posted IMG_3975
  • posted IMG_3958
  • posted IMG_3955
  • posted IMG_3952

More...

Categories

Powered by Movable Type 4.1