Years ago I participated in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search, and was lucky enough to win a place in the final 40. Back then, we’d get a trip to Washington, DC, where we met Ted Kennedy, the President, nobel laureates, the National Science Foundation, and more. But we never had Conan O’Brien!
Conan O’Brien [...]
Stephen Kochan recently published a good book on Objective C and the iPhone. Its a fast read, chock full of neat exercises to test your rapidly growing knowledge of the iPhone platform. I highly recommend it.
At the same time, I stumbled across a nice cheat sheet for Objective C today. Its [...]
Meet the new face of scalability — Taylor Swift. Taylor sold out Madison Square Garden in 60 seconds today. I heard it on the radio while driving home from the grocery store. A quick glance at Wikipedia reveals that the Garden can hold 20,000 people center stage, plus an additional 19,522 end-stage (whatever that means). [...]
A few months ago I started playing with XCode and the iPhone development environment. I plunked down the $99 fee to join Apple’s development program.
Guess what.
The very same classes we see in flash — Graphics, BitmapData, BlurFilter — are mirrored by Quartz 2D and the Foundation classes of the iPhone. Its not exactly a perfect [...]