October 2011
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September 2011
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Using GCD and Blocks Effectively →
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_LOW, 0), ^{
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://bit.ly/nUX01h"];
NSURLRequest *req = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[NSURLConnection sendAsynchronousRequest:req
queue:[NSOperationQueue currentQueue]
completionHandler:
^(NSURLResponse *res,...
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August 2011
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Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications →
Free e-book © 2010 Richard Szeliski, Microsoft Research
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Read online: Graphics Programming Black Book →
Michael Abrash’s classic Graphics Programming Black Book is a compilation of Michael’s previous writings on assembly language and graphics programming (including from his “Graphics Programming” column in Dr. Dobb’s Journal). Much of the focus of this book is on profiling and code testing, as well as performance optimization. It also explores much of the technology...
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July 2011
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June 2011
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Productive Flourishing's tips to gaining influence...
Building your influence online helps you attain a bigger and stronger web presence, which you can easily leverage to get more customers.
Here are the steps:
1. Show up. You can’t start to build your influence online if you aren’t already established where you customers are. Find out where they hang out, and go there.
2. Remember the campfire. You need to start with kindling like tweets...
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Concise Objective-C tutorial →
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Standard iPhone Element Sizes (Width x Height) →
A helpful listing of view dimensions.
May 2011
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IVCON - 3D Graphics File Conversion →
IVCON can read and write a small variety of 3D graphics file formats, converting from one to the other. This is by no means a perfect or even correct program! It was home-grown, and developed, as needed, to handle a particular set of files. It can make mistakes, or crash, rather more often than software you pay for, written by someone who knows what they’re doing.
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Terrain visualization with digital elevation... →
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5 research-based design principles for porting iOS... →
by @dmitryn
1. UX differences between Android and iOS are only noticed by expert Android users.
2. When in doubt, Android users reach for the hard buttons.
3. iOS UX elements whose function is clear can be successfully used by Android users.
4. iOS UX elements that are redundant with Android hard buttons should not be used.
5. iOS UX elements whose purpose is unclear without iOS...
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April 2011
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Augmented Reality: What are the best blogs about... →
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March 2011
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WatchLearnAR is a gorgeous augmented reality learning system by Augmatic - Experience Augmented Reality.
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iPhone OpenGL ES Resources – 18 That You Must... →
iPhone, iOS 4, iPad SDK Development Tutorial and Programming Tips
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iPhone OpenGL ES – 8 Great Resources For Learning →
iPhone, iOS 4, iPad SDK Development Tutorial and Programming Tips
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GHUnit →
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Apple camera iris animation →
The iPhone Development Wiki has a very nice listing of private animations which are available but not necessarily acceptable by Apple.
Here’s how to show the coveted iris animation.
CATransition *animation = [CATransition animation];
animation.delegate = self;
animation.duration = 0.33;
animation.timingFunction = UIViewAnimationCurveEaseInOut;
animation.type = @"cameraIrisHollowOpen"; ...
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February 2011
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Changing the default "Code Sense" indentation and... →
Run this on the command line:
defaults write com.apple.Xcode XCCodeSenseFormattingOptions -dict PreExpressionsSpacing “” BlockSeparator “\n” PostBlockSeparator “\n”
…to make Xcode’s if/else macro look like this:
if()
{
}
else
{
}
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Carrier Clash from Chitika Insights →
AT&T versus Verizon iPhone usage comparison.
Data is based on iPhones across the Chitika advertising network. Only traffic on cellular connections is recorded. Percentages are a 24-hour rolling average, updated hourly.
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Of BOOL and YES →
A must read for Objective-C developers.
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Sparrow Framework →
The Open Source Framework for iOS Game Development. I’d like to make a 3DAR game using Sparrow, if that makes sense.
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iPhone dev tips and resources by Brian Slick →
Among other things I find his logging tips helpful.
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htmlBurger PSD to HTML →
This service converts Photoshop designs into standards compliant XHTML/CSS. I’ve used XHTMLized in the past and would like to give htmlBurger a chance too.
January 2011
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“Medium-specific content is being created — content that does not exist on...”
– Layar co-founder & GM Lens-Fitzgerald on mobile’s next big thing via Reuters
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