March 2011
4 posts
“On the plus side, it’s now easier to add a new contact, and I can decide whether...”
– ignorethecode on the atrocity that is Skype 5. It really is a bloated, ugly, misbehaving piece of crap software. It’s even worse than the original MSN Messenger for Mac OS, and that’s quite an achievement. (Bloated chat UIs are a pet peeve of mine; I had an argument with my friend Sterd...
Mar 30th
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iOS 4.3: imp_implementationWithBlock() →
iOS 4.3 has a new objc api: adding method implementations using blocks. I tried to do the same once using libffi but never had the patience to finish it. This is a prettier solution anyway.
Mar 29th
“Eskil Steenberg (creator of Indie MMO “Love” - which is also a Voxel world...”
– Defcon - Minecraft + Physics = Awesome (how can you not read an article with that title?)
Mar 18th
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UIKit: Hide the keyboard without a reference to...
Googling for answers to UIKit or iOS/iPhone programming problems today resembles googling for answers to JavaScript problems. There is so much horribly, horribly broken code out there, being promoted as the way to do things. Ranting aside, today’s problem is writing your own view controller container, and noticing that focused UI elements don’t dismiss their keyboard in response to...
Mar 16th
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