Author Archives: diziet

Nice ish transitions from a photo thumbnail to a full screen view.

Posted on August 24, 2010 by diziet

The method of animating the appearance of views in Cocoa is good and simple I think. You can use an inbuilt one, which just works, or you can start an animation block and effectively program in key frames. To make … Continue reading →

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So so close.

Posted on August 19, 2010 by diziet

Just two bugs away, probably, from having something working in its entirety. E.g. everything else is additional features rather than core functionality. Current bugs: 1 – Render of StepTableCell is outside the bounds of the cell for reasons unknown, it’s … Continue reading →

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Well these are novel reasons for offering a patch.

Posted on August 18, 2010 by diziet

I guess there must be a fuckton of starcraft players out there with macs. Hopefully not the same specs or macs though. Interestingly I have experienced both of the issues this apparently fixes.

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A few inconsistencies in approach…

Posted on August 16, 2010 by diziet

As I read through some of the code I’ve written I notice things I’ve done twice, unnecessarily. For example a custom table cell has a property (variable/object in normal language) called category of type Category. The table view controller to … Continue reading →

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A bit more fun with photoshop.

Posted on August 15, 2010 by diziet

Two little icons…..

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A small applescript utility.

Posted on August 14, 2010 by diziet

Knocked this up today as I figure it will prove it’s worth in the future. Drag and drop an image onto it and it will generate the necessary files for the various icons/artwork an iPhone/iPhone4 or iPad application, it should … Continue reading →

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Scientist detects powerful jet from supernova. . .

Posted on August 13, 2010 by diziet

and decides to announce it as a Doctor Who fanfic rather than a boring paper (via Metafilter): Doctor Who and the Silver Spiral

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Playing with photoshop.

Posted on August 13, 2010 by diziet

It’s all well and good making apps that work but you realise how dull they look. That’s the key difference between what I have right now and existing apps in the store. Look and Feel. To fix that we need … Continue reading →

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A summary of the day.

Posted on August 12, 2010 by diziet

Good day.  Silly exc_bad_access bug resolved.  A macro in gdb to print the retainCount (mentioned in a previously posted link) is indeed very handy.  Spamming this through the code was also useful: NSLog(@”%@ <nameoffunction>”,self);   <— (or with another %@ … Continue reading →

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I squished a bug.

Posted on August 12, 2010 by diziet

Two days chasing down a bug and the first thing to enter my mind is “I squished a bug”. Yeah I own the album and the song was stuck in my head. So…… “I Squished a Bug” an ode to … Continue reading →

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