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, "A bit late to this, but this football conversation cracked me up http://t.co/tyUCJwzk via @imgur"
  • tweeted, "@invoker skynet. 'nuff said."
  • tweeted, "RT @pkedrosky: Nice Bloomberg look at key role housing played in Great Depression - http://t.co/vvtgovqc"
  • tweeted, "RT @BlackBerryDev: ANNOUNCEMENT: We'd like to announce that we will be submitting the #Ripple emulator to the Apache Foundation!"
  • tweeted, "Withings, wifi enabled scale: http://t.co/NlI0X6bj"
  • tweeted, "61 minute race time in grouse grind race (at Top of Grouse Grind) [pic] — http://t.co/0s54pYIj"
  • tweeted, "Coffee shop crawl spot #2. (at @JJBeanCoffee) [pic] — http://t.co/OjSiySLD"
  • tweeted, "The end of coupons has to be nigh. "Daily special: toenail fungus removal 2 locations"."
  • tweeted, "RT @newsycombinator: IOS6 breaks long polling http://t.co/M8HyDJcN"
  • tweeted, "@jsmarr metric is one of my fave bands. Great to see them getting more popular."
  • tweeted, "Fledgling B.C. software developer attracts million from Silicon Valley. Vancouver Sun http://t.co/7eXkQtjT"
  • tweeted, "RT @superfell: Nothing says enterprise software like MC Hammer at 9am #DF12"
  • tweeted, "RT @lukew: In iOS WebView (PhoneGap apps, embedded browsers) JavaScript now runs 3.3x slower: http://t.co/kWFo9K93"
  • tweeted, "RT @forcedotcom: Blog: Introducing the Salesforce Touch Platform Guide http://t.co/SHLCCRml"
  • tweeted, "What a softening housing market means for the Big Six /via @globeandmail http://t.co/7nky5k5T"
  • tweeted, "@grousemountain I hope it's red gondola for Saturday!"
  • tweeted, "RT @lukew: What's slowing down Facebook on mobile Web? Tooling / Developer APIs, Scrolling performance, GPU, and … http://t.co/l1zvTkcX"
  • tweeted, "@mnot congrats on joining Akamai and continuing the HTTP work!"
  • tweeted, "Gran Fondo (with Noel at Hornby + Georgia) [pic] — http://t.co/cF1oucPu"
  • tweeted, "Demon Slackers ride at Dawn! Pre fondo strategizing (with Chris) [pic] — http://t.co/50Den3UQ"

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