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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", [...]

Objective-C: [[Class alloc] init] Alternative

John C. Bland II — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:42:37 +0000

Reading more in the book I found what makes more sense to me in terms of instantiating a class. My previous post showed this as the way: MyClass myClassInstance = [[MyClass alloc] init]; …effectively calling the alloc and init methods on the class then the class instance, respectively. I see now you can simply do this: MyClass myClassInstance = [MyClass [...]

AIR 2.0: My Wishlist

John C. Bland II — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:40:19 +0000

I’ve been thinking about AIR a lot more lately and it prompted me to think about what 2.0 might provide us in ways of building better AIR apps. So, here is a short list of items I think AIR needs in order to make me happy. FTP support I know…AS3 provides the tools for ftp support and [...]

Objective-C: Declaring and Using Classes

John C. Bland II — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:24:36 +0000

Learning Objective-C for me is about learning how to read the code in comparison to other languages I know. Here is what I know so far about classes.

Learning Objective-C

John C. Bland II — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:47:51 +0000

I took off on a personal venture to learn Objective-C about a week or so ago. I thought, initially, my old C skills would jump in but it has been 10'sh years and Objective-C is NOT, I repeat, NOT like the C I remember. :-)

Outage: Switching Mail Servers

John C. Bland II — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:18:00 +0000

I’ve switched mail servers for Katapult and some others I managed to Google Apps (http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html). This has been a GREEEEAAAAAAT decision as my spam has decreased to 0 from 25-50/day (basically 3 to 6 per hour most of the time). So, my personal email address (tied to this domain) will be down for a bit as [...]

Preso: Introduction to Mate

John C. Bland II — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:03:24 +0000

Introduction to Mate (PowerPoint | Code | Recording) Description: Mate is an amazing Flex framework. This presentation showcases the basics of Mate. There are MUCH deeper levels to go but the introductory talk is what was requested by the Great Lakes Developers user group. That’s from my Preso’s page. Basically I was asked to discuss Mate and [...]

AS3: Converting Date() to the Epoch

John C. Bland II — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:32:02 +0000

The Flash Player uses the same epoch as Unix (January 1, 1970). An epoch is “a particular period of time marked by distinctive features, events, etc.” (source: Dictionary.com) One thing to note is the date pertains to the UTC (univeral time coordinated: “Universal time, taking into account the addition or omission of leap seconds by atomic [...]