Author Archives: keith

Evolution / De-Evolution Part 2

Posted on April 5, 2009 by keith

My last post was intended to be pretty tongue-in-cheek, but I’m guessing that a lot of people won’t get my dry humor, so I better explain. First of all, I wasn’t complaining about Objective-C or saying there’s anything wrong with … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, General, iPhone, Objective C | 14 Comments

Evolution or De-Evolution?

Posted on April 5, 2009 by keith

When I started working with ActionScript, you could pretty much get away with anything. You had to screw up pretty bad to get a compiler error. If you got the thing to compile, you were golden. Your SWF might not … Continue reading →

Posted in iPhone, Objective C | 7 Comments

Sys-con / Ulitzer totally lose it.

Posted on March 30, 2009 by keith

A week ago I thought Sys-con was a somewhat seedy, maybe even just a sloppy publisher. “Oops! We just forget to get permission to use that photo / article. Sorry about that. Won’t happen again … til next time.” Then … Continue reading →

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Sys-con / Ulitzer / Slime

Posted on March 28, 2009 by keith

Yesterday, Aral Balkan started twittering like crazy about this site called Ulitzer. I was pretty busy at work so didn’t pay much attention, but then he mentioned my name in connection with it. It turns out that Ulitzer is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Flash | 16 Comments

360iDev

Posted on March 14, 2009 by keith

I wrote a lot of this entry right in San Jose as the conference was on-going. And finished most of it up on the flight home. That being the case, It doesn’t really make sense that it’s taken be a … Continue reading →

Posted in iPhone, Objective C | 8 Comments

February 25-lines contest voting finally open

Posted on March 14, 2009 by keith

Vote here: http://www.25lines.com/?page_id=231 More info on what’s going on with it, here: http://www.25lines.com/?p=238

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Predicting the future.

Posted on March 9, 2009 by keith

This report by CNET quotes a source that says Android sales will outstrip iPhone by 2012. Ridiculous!!! Why? Because I am invested in iPhone development? Because I don’t like Android? No. Because anyone who thinks they can predict this market … Continue reading →

Posted in iPhone, Objective C | 29 Comments

More on MVC on the iPhone

Posted on March 7, 2009 by keith

In my previous post, I showed how you could set up a model and using key/value observing, know when various properties of the model were changed. There is one potential problem with this method, as Sam Wan brought up on … Continue reading →

Posted in iPhone, Objective C | 5 Comments

FiTC slides and code posted

Posted on February 27, 2009 by keith

As promised. http://www.bit-101.com/fitc/2009/fitc_ams_09.zip

Posted in ActionScript, Conferences, Flash | 4 Comments

FiTC Amsterdam

Posted on February 27, 2009 by keith

Well, I’m back from Amsterdam and had quite an enjoyable time. I wound up on the same flight as Chris and Rebecca Allen, though we didn’t sit near each other. But we hung out at Logan Airport beforehand and got … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Flash | 5 Comments