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Category Archives: Objective C++
UDIDs are gone.
After warning from Apple, apps using UDIDs now being rejected UDIDs are now gone. But it’s easy enough if you need a device unique identifier to generate one and track the device that way. Of course because you have your … Continue reading
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Huh.
For testing on Xcode I need to set the current working directory to a known location, so I can put test files there to read during testing. Guess what? Entering “${PROJECT_DIR}” into the Working Directory field: Works like a charm!
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Come work for me at Cartifact!
If you are in the Los Angeles area, have a couple of years (or a few decades!) of experience writing software in Java (or heck, if you’re fresh out of school and want to sink your teeth into developing for … Continue reading
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My e-mail bag: The Flowcover transformation matrix
I just downloaded your flow cover library and its a fantastic piece of work especially for a beginner who is trying to learn opengl like me. I have a couple of doubts in that. In this piece of code. GLfloat … Continue reading
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iPhone Multitouch
When handling touch events, the events you get via the touch events in the UIView class is pretty much the raw events from the hardware, wrapped in Objective C objects. If you’re dragging around one finger, then while keeping that … Continue reading
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C++ Things To Remember
Sometimes I have to remind myself of things I used to know but forgot over the intervening years. With C++ it’s two things. First, when playing with a complex algorithm (such as the polygon manipulation algorithms I’ve been playing with, … Continue reading
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Just received the following e-mail suggesting changes to FlowCover.
I don’t really have the time to respond or expand on this e-mail, and I don’t know if the code that Ilkka Pirttimaa provided is correct. But I wanted to post this here so other people playing with FlowCover can … Continue reading
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And then Apple changes the Rules. Again.
So I uploaded J2OC, and had lost interest in it. After all, who needs a second “let’s recompile Java into Objective C” in order to build iPhone and Android applications, if Apple isn’t going to allow it? Then Apple does … Continue reading
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On Memory and Memory Management
This will be a bit of an introductory article on memory, written in part for my wife and for anyone else who may find such an introduction useful. In The Beginning… In the beginning there was RAM, random access memory. … Continue reading
Posted in Algorithms, C++, Hardware, Objective C++, Papers, Things To Remember
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Time Zones are a pain in the ass.
Some interesting links I found that discuss time zones: Complete timezone information for all countries. – Just as the label says The official US time (NIST & USNO) – Displays the current time in the 10 major time zones in … Continue reading
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