John C. Bland II

Flash CS5 export to iPhone: Solutions Convo

John C. Bland II — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:25:28 +0000

I’ve talked about this a few times but wanted to put it on “paper” to hopefully spark a convo. Pretty much all of the interwebs have heard about Flash CS5 exporting iPhone apps. Just peep the Bing results to see how many folks have already commented. With over 245,000 search results, why make it 245,001? Well…I [...]

On IntenseDebate and so is this blog!

John C. Bland II — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:00:53 +0000

After seeing Mike Downey’s blog with IntenseDebate installed and also using it, I thought I’d sign up. So…I did. http://intensedebate.com/people/johncblandii Nothing special here but we’ll see how well it works and helps this blog with comments, etc.

Comcast Update

John C. Bland II — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:08:29 +0000

Two techs left about 30 minutes ago and my connection is still good. They went through a million changes though: changed connectors, ran new cable to main box (two houses down since one behind us has a bee hive), replaced outside splitter, replaced modem battery, replaced inside splitter, etc. Through all of that I’m still nervous [...]

Comcast has me unhappy!!!! (off-topic; venting)

John C. Bland II — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:41:09 +0000

I’m not the one to blast service providers because things happen, even with Katapult and our customers, but today just took the wind from my sails. At this point I’m irritated beyond belief with their bad service. Quick History I wanted AT&T U-verse since Verizon Fios wasn’t available but neither was U-verse. The only service [...]

Adobe Flex Development Primer – Recording URL

John C. Bland II — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:54:01 +0000

http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p35104921/ The session ended up covering Flash Builder 4 (briefly just to explain what we were looking at), mxml vs AS differences (ie – how to do the same thing either way), a brief on custom components, event architecture, data binding, and we started to go into custom events but decided to roll with a part [...]

Join me for “Adobe Flex Development Primer” Session

John C. Bland II — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:43:09 +0000

My good buddy Guillermo (gman) asked me about some Flex info. He’s a solid PHP’er and said he wanted to get into Flex so I hit him back with some info on where to get started. I also, as I typically do, jumped on the opportunity to do a Connect session to help him ramp [...]

Co-authoring Flex 4 in Action

John C. Bland II — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:38:44 +0000

I’ve been hesitant to post anything about this ordeal (co-authoring Flex 4 in Action or Fx4iA for short) until things were solid but since things are flowing forward and the light is green…why not? There isn’t a ton of details to give at this point beyond what Tariq Ahmed (author) posted on FlexInAction.com. Manning, so [...]

Comment response delay, my bad

John C. Bland II — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:24:23 +0000

I changed mail servers a lil’ bit ago and I have yet to get Wordpress sending emails properly again. Well…to be honest…I haven’t tried due to time. I’ll keep an eye out for comments and try to get my email fixed soon.

Objective-C: What is .m?

John C. Bland II — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:30:54 +0000

This was a bit odd for me but I just got the answer I wanted. When you create a class you create a .h (where applicable) and a .m. The .h is your interface. No sweat…seen these before. Hrmm…what does the “m” stand for though? .m = implementation file That makes sense. I mean I knew it was [...]

Objective-C: Console Apps – Read Input

John C. Bland II — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:05:20 +0000

I’ve made it through data types (might have a post about that) and am now in the looping chapter. In one of the examples the author brought up reading input from a console app to show how to dynamically do a for loop. In Objective-C, to read keyboard input from the console you can use: int userInput; scanf("%i", [...]