Day-trading with @stockguy22 made me 25% in 2 weeks

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Dave Orchard
on August 29, 2009 6:05 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Through Dec to March of this year, I did a fair amount of day trading with decent results.  Thanks to twitter, I found @stockguy22 and his online chat forum.  I decided to actually learn from a professional day trader what...

Creating an archive of an iphone app from unix: ditto

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Dave Orchard
on August 10, 2009 4:34 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
I've automated the build for our latest couple of iphone games, and I wanted to automate the finder's compress function.   Nothing from the terminal on OS X exactly reproduced the finder's compress size.The closest was ditto -c -k --sequesterRsrc --keepParent. ...

iPhone tip: Installing directory containing symlink requires run script phase in XCode

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Dave Orchard
on April 24, 2009 9:42 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
XCode does not allow a fairly simple directory structure that contains a symbolic link to be copied to an iphone without using a shell script, such as running a dashcode project on the iphone.  Xcode's target copy bundle resources or...

Yet another obscene CEO buyout at Chesapeake ($CHK) and the margin call

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Dave Orchard
on April 3, 2009 8:21 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Mindnumbing that McClendon margins himself out of his equity then the shareholders have to redo his contract and give him more.  Via fundmymutualfund: Chesapeake Energy (CHK) CEO Aubrey McClendon With New Shady Compensation Deal; I was Right in My PredictionWhat...

Vancouver real estate picks up

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Dave Orchard
on April 3, 2009 8:12 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
I have been noticing a number of sold signs showing up in our neighbourhood, so I thought that the real estate market was picking up.  Turns out I was right according to MLS numbers for March.  I do have a...

iPhone memory leak detection using clang

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Dave Orchard
on March 5, 2009 6:05 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
One of the most common problems in iPhone development is memory leaks.  I found the Performance tool offered by Apple to be pretty useless at finding memory leaks.  A much better tool is clang.  It found 23 valid memory leaks...

iPhone threading and screen refreshes success

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Dave Orchard
on February 25, 2009 6:26 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
I realized a while ago what I had done wrong in my previous attempt at displaying a progress bar and the screen wasn't refreshing.  The problem was that I was not invoking the method to update the progress bar on...

iPhone SDK 2.2.1 and Exchange Sync has broken AddressBook API calls

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Dave Orchard
on February 25, 2009 6:26 AM | | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)
The iPhone SDK 2.2.1, which added Exchange Sync with Google, has broken the ABRecordSet function!  I think the use of the Exchange means that the API can't be used to update records, perhaps because of a conflict?  Or because the...

Interesting stock chart comparisons of industrials/techs and oil stocks and contango

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Dave Orchard
on February 12, 2009 6:31 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
I compared some of my tech stock are doing compared to indices and I wanted to see a contango $USO play.  Every trader has to ask the question about stock picks and whether they are beating the market or not. ...

High performance WordPress

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Dave Orchard
on February 4, 2009 11:15 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
We examined a wordpress site as part of the Building High Performance Web sites workshop at Web Directions North 09.   The site we examined was the vancouvertwins.com site that I'm the online guy for.  We ran YSlow and the IBM...
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Elsewhere, Dave:

  • tweeted, "Our daughter's wiles continue to grow. "Mom, If I give you lots of kisses can we play one more game?""
  • tweeted, "@ToddSullivan 2014 peak oil includes questionable assumption that Saudi prod will grow 50% to peak in 2027 at production rate of 14 MMSTB/D"
  • tweeted, "@seeking_balance so sorry for your loss, that is just devastating. Our thoughts are with you."
  • tweeted, "Great corp tweet: RT @LoganServices: @DaveO We can have someone out today. http://tinyurl.com/yc64fvu. Can install new Trane furnace quickly"
  • tweeted, "Heat is so basic. Our furnace went friday night, no techs avail until monday. Hitting 0 celcius tonight. It's cold in our house tonight!"
  • tweeted, "Modern irony. I found out thru Twitter that @blainecook(Twitter dev) was at vancouvers geo demo camp"
  • tweeted, "More Olympics hangover. Vancouver school boards have to cut M so fewer but longer days: http://tinyurl.com/yequsxq"
  • tweeted, "RT @SiliconANGLE: SA>: Farmville Valued Billion Higher than Twitter http://j.mp/9Tmw7I"
  • tweeted, "Anybody in Vancouver know of a kids' coach/bus/taxi service?"
  • tweeted, "RT @ToddSullivan: Hats Off to the Classy Pittsburg Penquin's fans for giving Ryan Miller a standing ovation before last nights game"
  • tweeted, "@adactio nothing gets by you even late at night"
  • tweeted, "@stockgod, thx for the $LIWA (sold 1/2 at .10) and $PUDA (sold 1/3 more at .75). Killer week with $AGM for you!"
  • tweeted, "@Carnage4Life ah, thx for the laugh today. Complaining about Apple using lawsuits is a good one. msft never uses their army of lawyers."
  • tweeted, "Canada: Gold medal curling squad says, upon being told they've set the record for host country golds, "one more" wrt Canada vs USA Hockey"
  • tweeted, "@uncleweed, I <3 Geoff Gerner from many folk fests in vancouver."
  • tweeted, "DaveO OSS street cred: contributed iphone address book, updates, movies, faceboook connect, in-app purchase, other app invokes to @phonegap!"
  • tweeted, "@rsarver I find it ironic when people on twitter basically ask why can't twitter people pay attention."
  • tweeted, "Added Apple AppStore in-app purchases to PhoneGap git repo: http://github.com/DavidOrchard/phonegap-iphone"
  • tweeted, "RT @w3c: Tim Berners-Lee on HTML+RDFa, Microdata, and Canvas in HTML WG: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Feb/0871.html"
  • tweeted, "Thx @stockgod for $AGM. I sold all at .25. Still holding $LIWA, $ARNA and $PUDA after selling most of $NEP with you."

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