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...

Building High Performance web sites

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Dave Orchard
on February 4, 2009 6:50 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
I attended Nicole Sullivan's awesome high performance web site workshop.  Some really interesting things I learned:Yahoo's workPerformance: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/ Performance Rules: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.htmliPhone cacheability: http://yuiblog.com/blog/2008/02/06/iphone-cacheability/ToolsYSlow is a firefox plugin that evaluates a web page against the performance rulesIBM Page detailer does an...

Active trading results: +1% in 50 days

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Dave Orchard
on January 28, 2009 9:56 PM | | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)
I've been active/day trading since Dec 5th, often twittering about my buys, sells, and frustrations.  I've had some great wins, big losses, lots of average results, and lots of time spent.  So how have I been doing?  After this time,...
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Elsewhere, Dave:

  • tweeted, "@NachoMan congrats! Where did u buy?"
  • tweeted, "Getting more experienced at git. Just did a github fork, branch, fetch, cherry-pick a commit, 3 more commits, then a squash and it worked."
  • tweeted, "git madness! Delete file: git rm. Delete branch: git branch -d. Delete branch on remote: git push origin :branch. Argh!"
  • tweeted, "@dalmaer don't you mean it's about "franken" time?"
  • tweeted, "Darn, FF3.5 + firebug is unusable cuz of horrible perf. Continue to use Safari for HTML5 and interactive javascript."
  • tweeted, "Just fascinated at how many times we now use the letter 'z' to mean a soft 's' sound. Also number of dropped 'e' s."
  • tweeted, "@sayrer I got the console working in firebug again, I hadn't turned firebug on. Seems wierd to install and have default off."
  • tweeted, "MJ has #1, #2, #5, #8 spots on itunes top 10."
  • tweeted, "@sayrer solved my FF/webkit check of console, but why not an interactive debugger in FF 3.5? Change file/reload sux."
  • tweeted, "@sayrer thanks! shoulda tried that."
  • tweeted, "Grrr. FF 3.5 doesn't have console, and firebug 1.4b2 doesn't add console.log. FF also doesn't support typeOf(console) to check."
  • posted Farm town has xlink error
  • tweeted, "I just attempted to assassinate @choojai777, but failed. #spymaster http://bit.ly/playspy"
  • tweeted, "I just wounded @digiphile in an assassination attempt. #spymaster http://bit.ly/playspy"
  • tweeted, "iPhone 3GS is sold out across canada..."
  • tweeted, "RT @dalmaer: Jesee MacFadyen of Nitobi has created YuTuplr, open source YouTube uploader http://yutuplr.com/ He shows http://bit.ly/1mvQAR"
  • tweeted, "I just reached level 2. #spymaster http://bit.ly/playspy"
  • tweeted, "RIP Michael Jackson"
  • tweeted, "Gotta say, Outlander was a very entertaining sci-fi meets 700ad norse movie. Slight change from passion of christ :-)"
  • tweeted, "@katrinaarcher eek, sorry, following u now. my game console is an iphone :-)"

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