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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Saving CGPaths
Let’s say you’ve created a CGPath in your code, and you’d like to save it to disk. It wasn’t immediately obvious to me how one might do this, but it turns out to be pretty easy with the use of … Continue reading
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The Spiral
I think that the process of understanding something can be modeled as a path up an ascending, widening spiral. The height of a point on the spiral indicates the complexity of your model of the subject, the radius of the … Continue reading
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Not a Sideshow
Editorial Note: This is specific to U.S. politics. Right now, the issue of abortion looms large in any consideration of whether or not the U.S. House of Representatives will pass the Senate’s “healthcare reform” bill, and thereby reorder the healthcare … Continue reading
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Tangents
Everyone knows that it’s hard to accurately estimate the duration of a software project. At bottom, this is because you often don’t know exactly what you’re doing, or exactly how you’ll do it, which makes it hard to work out … Continue reading
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Pacquiao
Well, congratulations to Manny Pacquiao on a fine performance. Condolences to Joshua Clottey. In my opinion, Clottey would have done better to fight the whole fight as he did the 11th and 12th rounds. Here’s hoping that Pacquiao fights the … Continue reading
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UIScrollView (Tiled)
To follow up on last week’s post about UIScrollViews, I want to explore this somewhat mysterious passage from the documentation: The object that manages the drawing of content displayed in a scroll view should tile the content’s subviews so that … Continue reading
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Born Stupid
In lieu of a 6WS, 11 words from Tom Sowell that I’d be hard put to top: People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid. Catchy, I think.
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Fightcard Promotion
To mark this weekend’s Pacquiao/Clottey match, I’m running a promotion on Fightcard; this week, you can download it for free. (Or you should be able to, as soon as the iTunes store updates its information.) And I still pick Clottey … Continue reading
