Monthly Archives: September 2009

Core Data

Posted on September 11, 2009 by MXH

One of the developer-side enhancements included in iPhone OS 3.0 was Core Data. Core Data is basically an ORM layer, which one could either take or leave; it’s nice to avoid writing all that SQL, but you’re always taking on … Continue reading →

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Private Information

Posted on September 10, 2009 by MXH

A few days ago, Godin made the interesting points that: On the internet, some people are more influential than others It would be valuable to know how influential someone is Quantitative metrics for influence could be developed and computed So … Continue reading →

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Labor Day

Posted on September 7, 2009 by MXH

Since it’s Labor Day in the U.S. today, and since I just did an upgrade of WP to 2.8.4 (please do write if you see anything wonky) I though I’d do something short: A quick check on bandwidth pricing, which … Continue reading →

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Adventure Games

Posted on September 6, 2009 by MXH

Things I Learned From Adventure Games: 90% of the time, you can solve the problem in front of you right away … and the solution is (almost) always obvious in hindsight … but there’s always another hill to climb … … Continue reading →

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Fixed-Width

Posted on September 4, 2009 by MXH

This one is a little personal. I have an idiosyncratic, and probably ill-advised, interest in getting ASCII art to display properly on the iPhone. (This was actually one of the first things I experimented with on the platform.) My efforts … Continue reading →

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More Choices

Posted on September 3, 2009 by MXH

I want to follow up on Monday’s post about my ChoiceMenu class; that class contained one particular line of code that made it a lot more useful and flexible. Perhaps I’m inordinately proud of it, but I think it’s worth … Continue reading →

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