February 2009
1 post
Tumblr's nice...
… but I think that I need a real weblog again.
October 2008
5 posts
"Our Shoggoths Thank You"
One of my favorite places online to buy things is from the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. According to the group’s history, it was founded to support a live action role-playing game called “Cthulhu Lives”. I don’t quite know the game, but I do enjoy what the group creates.
In a nutshell, the HPLHS produces a variety of adaptations of Lovecraft’s work in a...
CKMapView
One of the nice things about attending a conference is that things are pretty quiet once things wrap up. I have a mapping project that I’ve been keeping under wraps, and one of the components I needed was a zooming image view control that could be connected to map data servers.
After an afternoon of Objective-C hacking, I have version 0.1 of CKMapView working on Mac OS X. I plan to port it...
The return of the Blog
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, my personal weblog has returned after many months of retirement.
Some time ago, I discontinued my Vox weblog because I didn’t feel that I had a sufficient amount of interesting and important content to keep it going. I decided to focus my efforts on my projects and to let them speak for themselves. I reserved my Twitter account for my wannabe pithy...
Halifax
I’m currently attending the ASSETS 2008 conference in lovely Halifax, Nova Scotia. I arrived a day early to get things in order and I’m looking forward to the presentations later today.
I did take the opportunity to explore the city a bit yesterday and I’m looking forward to finding a few minutes to visit The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. I was also hoping to bring a few...
App Store Roller Coaster
In my last entry almost three months ago, I had a sense of optimism with respect to the openness of Apple’s iTunes Application Store. The intervening months proved my initial assessment false, but I am happy to say that things are finally improving for the better. The app idea that I’ve been toying around with in my head might happen after all. I picked up a copy of an iPhone...
August 2008
2 posts
Apple's iPhone App Store
I originally feared that Apple would exercise an iron fist over what applications they admitted into the App Store in order to establish a larger measure of control over the platform than they enjoy on the Mac.
It appears that the opposite has happened and my expectations were entirely wrong.
Rather than filter the applications in the App Store, Apple adopted a a fairly hands-off approach and...
C4[2] Conference →
I just spent a fair amount of cash registering for the C4[2] conference in Chicago. The registration was a bit expensive for a poor graduate student, but I can’t imagine a better way to network and meet practicing Mac developers. I have aspirations of “going indy” (or something similar) after graduate school, so I expect that this conference will be well worth the registration...
This is not a new blog.
Honestly, it isn’t.
This is just a place for me to post things that don’t fit into that tiny little Twitterific box.
Ignore at your leisure. ;-)