A blog about things that interest me.
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Local Engineer’s cool Pen
A couple of months ago I was given a PressurePen by Chuck N, from the local Triangle Mac Users Group. The idea was to play with it and write up a blog entry. I had been running iOS7 most of the summer, and the app didn’t seem to work with iOS 7 on either my…
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Autolayout improvements
Ok, well not really improvements to auto layout on iOS, but improvements in my understanding of Auto Layout. The biggest thing I learned is that it is easier to setup and manage constraints in code, then to try and use Storyboards to define and modify the constraints. If you have not used AutoLayout, Apple recommends…
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Off Topic – Blogging and Comments
It’s been over a year and a half that I’ve been working this blog. Not a long time, compared to some of my podcasts, but still a lot of posts, and some good traffic. What I’ve not figured out how to do is to get comments in any significant number. So here is a request…
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The Google Glass Interface
In my last post I asked, rhetorically, was Google Glass a view of the new interface to come. I didn’t answer the question, nor even really think thru it, as I wanted to thinking on the question overnight. So is it? I think Google Glass does a great job of changing how you interact with…
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Is Google Glass the interface of the future?
I had a chance to head over to Google’s Google Glass tour this morning. They are starting their tour of the US with a stop in Durham. Durham has a great startup community, and being surrounded by multiple colleges, universities, and tech companies, it is the home of great app developers. So it was a…