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Getting the hang of css.
There’s some really nice stuff you can do in CSS, one of which is getting rid of graphics for borders, backgrounds, and buttons. Transparency is a boon as well allowing good styling with minimal effort, in my case surrounding pre … Continue reading
An interesting week
I think I’ve made around 5 abortive attempts to submit my app now, that’s no reflection on the quality of the app store or the submissions process but on where my brain has been focused. Purely on the development of … Continue reading
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Whilst deciding what to include with the App, we write a PDF generator!
Managed to implement rendering of recipes into multipage PDF documents. They look something like this: Lasagne Recipe One thing to note whilst writing the code was the usual inverted co-ordinates. I wanted an image in the top left, title and … Continue reading
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Tagged Core Text, iOS, iphone, objective-c, PDF
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Nearing release, implement shiny things whilst waiting.
As the project nears release my thoughts turn to what will be needed in the near future and how best to solve an intermittent bug that’s present now. The bug was resolving by doing something I should have done ages … Continue reading
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Tagged bit mask, bit shift, bitwise operations, Core-Data, NSEntityMigrationPolicy, objective-c, UUID
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Want to backup files in windows the linux way?
Download this cwRsync. Which is rsync packaged up for windows, and create a small script like this to run as administrator: @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL REM ** CUSTOMIZE ** Specify where to find rsync and related files (C:\CWRSYNC) SET CWRSYNCHOME=”c:\Program Files … Continue reading
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Tagged Backup, Batch, Microsoft, Rsync, Security Essentials
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Updated.
WordPress/Akismet & Slickr Flickr updated to latest versions.
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Exporting your digital comics from Comics.app on iPhone
*Post originally contained information on how to backup your comics, redacted at the request of Comixology’s CEO.* Digital comics are a great thing, and I’m slowly amassing a reasonable library of them through the fantastic Comics.app (Comixology) on the iPhone/iPad. … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Miscellany, Programming
Tagged CBR, CBZ, Comixology, Digital Distribution, Digital Rights, ipad, iphone
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Taking advantage of the ebay free listings weekend.
So… free listings on ebay. It’s an experiment. I’ve listed some of these items in the past and they haven’t sold. I was kind of glad they didn’t as I listed them all at £0.99 and I’d probably have lost … Continue reading
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Tagged Anime, Collectibles, Ebay, Figurines, PSP
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Providing a consistent UI experience between UITextField and UITextView
There are a few major differences between the two but the most glaring is that UITextView does not support styles so you cannot create them stylistically the same as a UITextField. You cannot readily apply background images depending on state … Continue reading
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Tagged iOS, iphone, UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect, UITextField, UITextView
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Book Review : Hidden Empire – Saga of the Seven Suns by Kevin J. Anderson
I’m not new to Kevin J. Anderson’s writing by any stretch but this is certainly the first novel of his that has left me in such an undecided state. I’m not a fan of his style but I did enjoy … Continue reading