A blog about things that interest me.
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Podcasts and patents
A few weeks ago I stared hearing about a patent claim from the mid 1990’s that would change how we all create and consume patents. The podcast community is asking for help and support to invalidate this patent. If you can help out, please follow this link and help! Thanks.
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Experiences with Constraints and Storyboards
Well, it was a challenge, but I got it done. This past weekend I spent most of the time refactoring my personal app to using iOS 6.1’s autolayout capabilities. While I started off pulling out my hair, I ended the weekend with screens that looked pretty good, and that correctly handled almost everything I could…
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iOS Storyboards, AutoLayout, and Constraints
I’ve been in the process of refactoring my app – Wasted Time in order to add native Facebook integration and a new ToDo feature. As part of this refactoring, I am changing from a simple UITabBarController to a UINavagationController based root control. This change will allow me to have the ToDoViewController be able to be…
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Does the xBox Announcement Matter
Microsoft has finally made their next generation console announcement. You can watch a replay here. This got me thinking, does it matter? The basics are an improved processor, more cloud integration, improved Kinect, and better media center capabilities. As more and more people are become cord cutters, and more and more gaming is happening on…
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Google Developer’s Conference
*** It seems that this post didn’t go up when I thought it would..not sure what happened (I am sure it is a users/poster error). I was lucky enough to have a very long drive during the Google IO keynote so I had time to listen to the livestream of all three hours while driving…