The other day I had to hook up some code via JSON. Having no idea what JSON is, I looked on Wikipedia. Basic data types, examples, syntax, and a link to RFC 4627 later, and I was set. Cool! I wanted to implement a hash map, but I wasn’t sure if I wanted to do [...]
Now I can blog on the fly with a new toy for my iPhone! Weeeeeee…
For some reason a development profile seems tied to the computer as well as the specified phone on the iPhone. What this means is that when you move the device from one computer to another to work on some software (say, a personal laptop to a personal desktop and back again), you need a way [...]
Nine and a half hours. Nine and a half friggin’ hours! If it weren’t for the fact that I absolutely needed a device so I could test some location-aware software on the gadget, I would have never bothered. Meh.
Don’t hide or disable menu items. This is what separates the User Interface men from the User Interface boys: the suggestion “Instead, leave the menu item enabled. If there’s some reason you can’t complete the action, the menu item can display a message telling the user why” is the most Gawd-aweful suggestion I’ve heard in [...]