CoreGraphics is Right After All

September 23, 2008

A while back I wrote about a potential issue with compositing using Quartz. I’m happy to finally conclude that there in fact is no issue. Yes, Quartz does behave differently than Cairo, but I believe Quartz has the more consistent behavior throughout all its modes. I came to this realization after talking to the engineer [...]

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Limbo

September 2, 2008

I’ve recently left Yahoo! after 3 years there. I already miss hanging out with everyone, but it was clear to me that the best thing for me was to get out and find my own path. I got to Yahoo! through the acquisition of Konfabulator (now Yahoo! Widgets). It was an interesting experience to say [...]

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UIKit: A Fresh Start

March 9, 2008

Having (like zillions of others) just downloaded and started playing with the iPhone SDK this past week, I’m pretty impressed with UIKit. Being a frameworks/API guy myself, I can fully appreciate they way it’s put together. It’s very easy to do the simpler things and if you want to get down and dirty, you still [...]

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Silverlight and Yahoo!

February 3, 2008

Wow. Someone just mentioned Silverlight in something I just read, and it got me thinking about how Microsoft would have a huge network to use it as a de facto standard if this MS/Yahoo! thing really pans out. I have to say, after going to MIX last year, I was thoroughly impressed by Silverlight, to [...]

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YHOO and MSFT

February 2, 2008

Well, unless you were hiding under a rock yesterday, you saw the announcement that Microsoft offered a bid to acquire Yahoo! Inside the company there was a range of reactions, as you can imagine. But I’ll tell you my own perspective. There’s no inside dirt here, so if you’re looking for secrets, stop reading now.1 [...]

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This is Just Plain Nuts

January 28, 2008

I shouldn’t give this guy more airtime than he deserves. But give this a read: Apple iPhone Doomed To Failure He tells you it’s doomed, but I never really see him explain exactly why. Because it’s Microsoft? I don’t think so. Wasn’t Vista supposed to take over the world? What happened there? I can’t tell [...]

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Issues in 1.1.3 iPhone Update?

January 25, 2008

Since downloading 1.1.3 for my iPhone the second the servers came back on release day, my phone has been experiencing some oddness. In particular it really seems like there’s some sort of memory corruption issue going on. I say that because I’ve experienced the following in the past few days: The button to hang up [...]

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I need to stop the complaining

January 24, 2008

Since my last eBay post, I’ve finally found an option which seems to stop most of the bad people from being able to bid on my items. Since then I’ve been able to sell 3 or 4 things without incident (including my camera). I’ve also noticed they’ve created a new streamlined version of their seller [...]

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eBay May Collapse Under Its Own Weight

October 15, 2007

I recently tried to sell a camera on eBay. Twice. Both times it was removed after it closed. Both times I received an email that stated: The results of the following listing(s) have been cancelled due to bidding activity that took place without the account owner’s authorization: OK, I get that. Someone got phished and [...]

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Confessions of a Carbon Guy

August 19, 2007

Recently, I started thinking about writing some small application on Mac OS X. The app will never probably be written, but it did get me thinking about how I would write it these days. I figured if I were really writing something from scratch, I should probably do it in Cocoa. Being Mr. Carbon, this [...]

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