I'm getting kind of tired of all these web developers complaining about the time it takes to get updates to their apps up on the iTunes App Store. The truth is this complaining has some merit. But you have to realize that these people are not making web applications, they're making installable… Keep reading
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Life is a lot like a box of chocolates. Or maybe it’s just a stream of consciousness. Little bits left along the path, lost in the woods. But someone picked up the bits and made them whole again. Welcome to Kyle’s life — streamlined.
Side projects, manifestations of ideas, and the general art of pursuing knowledge created these. Ruby on Rails, PHP, MySQL, and a flurry of other acronyms power them.
These are my children left ’round the web.
I’ve been using Lighthouse since it’s inception, but now that I’m working with the ENTP folks I get to thinking about what to do with Lighthouse a lot more. I’ve had a few ideas on ways to play with the API and I finally got around to implementing one of those ideas with Burndown. [...]
entp’s Jeremy McAnally is teaming up with Ruby Power and Light (that’d be the very David Black) to put on a three day Ruby training session in Atlanta April 1st-3rd. Early bird pricing ends March 11th (three days from now!) so get on it while the going’s good!
I posted some thoughts to twitter last night about how much the xCode window management drives me insane. What I got back was a huge reaction of “it’s perfect” and “this is how OSX works” Suddenly I was wondering, am I just insane for thinking the window management is absolutely horrible?
No, no. I’m not. It’s horrible. Just because Apple built it, does not make it perfect.
I’ve been playing around with Cocoa the past few days, going through a lot of tutorials and pouring over the syntax. Overall, it’s been a very interesting experiment. The drawing API is very similar to Flash, and the language structure feels a lot like C# to me but with a completely different look to it. Thought I might jot down some initial thoughts here. Keep in mind, they’re probably wrong. I’ve only been writing Obj-C code for about a week.
Today I tried to build a house. After 47 minutes of trying really hard with all these building codes, earthquake “protection” braces and battling complicated ideas like reinforced concrete I gave up and just used cardboard. I mean, the end result is the same — so why even bother? All I know is that there’s [...]
A while ago I set myself on a personal mission to learn Flex. I know myself around HTML, CSS, and Javascript like a pro -- but to be honest I've never been a fan of overly "strict" programming environments like Flex. Actionscript 3 is a strongly-typed language, and the the rest of Flex is all XML files. It was a hard transition to me (being a huge fan of loosely typed languages like Ruby). As a result, I was having an increasingly difficult time picking up Flex — so I opted to pick up a book.
On July 10, the Smashing Pumpkins released the first album they've released in what feels like decades (oh, wait...). I desperately wanted to see them play with the opening tour, but despite the fact that they played for eleven days straight in San Francisco, the tickets still sold out within a few minutes and I missed my window. Show or no show, I picked up the CD the day it came out and overall I've been very pleased.
I first saw The Used play at the Boardwalk in Sacramento around the summer of 2000. It was one of the most memorable concerts of my life: a small club, tons of girls, three inches from the speaker and the stage, and a lineup that was unbelievably badass. At the time, The Used were just the third opening band of the night. NobodyZero (now defunct), some unmemorable band, The Used, and then finally Fenix TX headlining.
Almost a year ago The roots came out with Game Theory – which in my opinion has quickly become one of the best hip-hop records of all time. I'm not a huge hip-hop fan, and I don't claim to know the full extent of the scene. But I do know good music when I hear it, and this is damn good music.
The Shape of Punk to Come is a revolutionary album. Not only is it truly genre-bending, but it's a damn good album to listen to. I must admit, the first time I heard the album I was a skeptic. I just thought it was a bunch of crap thrown onto a CD. My mistake was listening to songs, and not the album as a whole.
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All my little projects that I leave scattered around the web. Some for profit, all for fun.
