I'm looking for engineering, advocacy and/or standards work in the mobile and/or web applications areas.  I bring great experience in native and web based iPhone apps, PhoneGap, Ruby, Java, the LAMP stack, Javascript, HTML5, CSS, casual social games on Facebook,...

Remembering Something Bigger

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A take on "expecting someone taller".August long weekend was time for the LV Rogers High School class of 1985's 25 year reunion.  It was a lot of fun seeing many of my classmates.  Thanks heaps to Tonnie Stewart for organizing!...
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...
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. ...
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...
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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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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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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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...
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...

Elsewhere, Dave:

  • tweeted, "@cssquirrel I may have to unsub as I can't resist your hixie trolls and this causes some blood boiling..."
  • tweeted, "Disneyland booked!"
  • tweeted, "RT @timberners_lee: Overbroad and arbitrary web takedowns by #usgov or by #anonymous -- no way to run a world"
  • tweeted, "RT @sponno: How Cool. http://t.co/cLdjmQUk has a hidden message (use photoshop, up exposure). Result attached. http://t.co/HXR25j9h"
  • tweeted, "RT @dannyrobinson: Bootup Labs portfolio company Summify Acquired by Twitter http://t.co/pjGEbwaU"
  • tweeted, "So sad. RT @NBCNews: Sarah Burke "passed away peacefully surrounded by those she loved," her publicist says in statement. She was 29."
  • tweeted, "So predictable. Whistler Blackcomb offers 72 hr sale on accommodation. Web site crashes."
  • tweeted, "RT @dannyrobinson: HootSuite Reaches 3 Million Users, 700 Million Sent Messages [INFOGRAPHIC] http://t.co/3bj8apcD (via @summify from @i ..."
  • tweeted, "Bought my cervelo r3 with ulltegra today."
  • tweeted, "I'm sad. My daughter learned the f word from a friend at school. I was shocked to hear it from her."
  • tweeted, "RT @LaughingSquid: Fotoshop by Adobé, A Satirical Look at the Beauty Industry http://t.co/IF0bFj3F by @JesseRosten"
  • tweeted, "RT @rsarver: Why the NHLPA rejected NHL’s 2012-13 realignment plan | Puck Daddy - Yahoo! Sports http://t.co/Z20YWsaK"
  • tweeted, "RT @JoshuaKerievsky: Type "let it snow" into Google, let your screen freeze over, then clean it by holding down your mouse button and mo ..."
  • tweeted, "RT @AntDeRosa: Not sure this was public or not but: Facebook ownership - Employees 30% Zuck 24% Eduardo Saverin 5% Sean Parker 4%, via @ ..."
  • tweeted, "RT @SalesforceUI: This morning we welcome @lukew to kickoff our mobile design day!"
  • tweeted, "@pkedrosky I'd say steep learning curve may have become analogous to hiking a mountain rather than a chart."
  • tweeted, "RT @lcooney: Google may cut support for Firefox/Mozilla? Bad. Use for share & then cut loose? Evil. Business Insider: http://t.co/NMTO7B71"
  • tweeted, "4,100 men die of prostate cancer in Canada this yr. Pls support my #Movember efforts @ http://t.co/2AdT0k29"
  • tweeted, "I’ve donated my face to @movemberCA & men’s health, pls give so it may grow: http://t.co/2AdT0k29 #Movember"
  • tweeted, "Its Moustache Season, I’m growing for @movemberCA to support men’s health. Pls donate @ http://t.co/2AdT0k29 #Movember"

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