An additional thought on my Security Rules Of Thumb: The DMCA’s clause making it illegal to create or investigate anti-curcumvention devices exists because stupid people were building their own encryption algorithms without having a clue how to do it, and after the inevitable occurred (I mean, really: ZIP compression is more secure than CSS for [...]
So I landed in San Francisco, and took the BART to Market Street to go to my hotel on 3rd street. And I’m fully prepared, too: iPhone 3G, Garmin Legend GPS, laptop computer, Kindle, and a large bag full of other, more mundane things. (Pants, shirts, shampoo, toothpaste.) Bag is large and unwieldy, laptop bag [...]
I hate doing it. But I had to. We got a whole bunch of resumés and I have one job. So I filtered out half–sorry! And I plan to spend a few minutes with the other half to weed it down to two or three people to bring in. However, here’s a hint for anyone [...]
I ran into a weird crashing bug on our application: when we closed an Activity containing a WebView display, on occasion we’d get a SIGSEGV crash. This reliably happened about one in a half-dozen times. The fix appears to be to call WebView’s destroy() method on the view inside the Activity during the Activity’s onDestroy: [...]
I don’t know why I keep misplacing this document, so I’m noting it here for future reference: Java System Property Reference for Mac OS X. This contains the various magic runtime system properties in Mac OS X. The Java Development Guide for Mac OS X is also useful for how to do certain standard Mac-like [...]
In a typical model/view/controller implementation (setting aside, of course, the debate over what MVC really is), we implement a model (which maps to a document, file, or database), a controller (which manages the views), and a collection of views, generally contained within a window. Now this model maps nicely into the iPhone API and the [...]
For those who don’t know, Flow Cover is my little implementation of the CoverFlow view by Apple, and emulates the left-right swipe view provided by CoverFlow with a new view that was written from scratch. Alessandro Tagliati sent me the following modification to the FlowCoverView.m file: In the -(void)draw routine (around line 410 of FlowCoverView.m), [...]
Original iPhone owners & Push Notifications One of the most awaited features, push notifications, requires a constant data connection. *Rolls eyes* It’s a shame Mr. Bohon was handed a megaphone without having any bloody knowledge. The Wireless Application Protocol is the cell equivalent of the TCP/IP protocol: it describes a wireless protocol from the hardware [...]
(1) The number of laptops here is insane. It’s now lunch time on Friday, and I’d say 90+% of the people (including me) are quietly tapping away at the little keyboards and staring at the little screens. (2) So few people here have product T-shirts. I realized as I glanced over and saw someone wearing [...]
Static analysis is God. That is all.