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& Operator Overloading">Boost C++ & Operator Overloading

August 28, 2010

As you may or may not know already, I recently started a new job.  The new com­pany makes a lot more heavy-duty use of C++ than the pre­vi­ous one did.  Among the C++ code is the 3rd party Boost C++ library.  I had periph­er­ally heard of Boost before, but had never looked too deeply at […]

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Internet calendar formats revisited

July 5, 2010

A few weeks ago, I was com­plain­ing about the lack of a good Open Source library for both pars­ing AND mak­ing use of the vcal/ical inter­net cal­en­dar feed for­mat.  Quite a few solu­tions exist for sim­ple pars­ing but few (okay, zero that I could find) solid, robust solu­tions exist for doing any­thing intel­li­gi­ble with the […]

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30 Hour Day on the iPhone

July 1, 2010

A lit­tle over a month ago, I had this crazy idea.  It wasn’t quite as crazy as no sleep for char­ity, but it was a lit­tle out there.  You see, I have played with iPhone devel­op­ment, tech­ni­cally, since before there was an offi­cial SDK but for most prac­ti­cal pur­poses, for a lit­tle under a year. […]

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ARG Tools for iPhone">ARG Tools for iPhone

ARG Tools for iPhone">Thumbnail image for <span class=ARG Tools for iPhone" /> June 6, 2010

As a few read­ers of this blog may know, I have been tin­ker­ing with iPhone devel­op­ment for about a year.  Tech­ni­cally, a bit longer than that — since the first jail­breaks and com­mu­nity SDKs — but real­is­ti­cally, with all seri­ous­ness, about a year of what I’d con­sider above “tin­ker­ing” but below “pro­fes­sional.”  In recent months, […]

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The horrors of internet calendar formats

June 1, 2010

I have been work­ing on a lit­tle side-project for a few weeks now.  One of the things I thought I could add easy-peasy, slam-dunk, was a read-only view of a shared cal­en­dar.  I have seen the iCal data for­mat before, and it didn’t strike me as par­tic­u­larly dif­fi­cult, just A BUNCH OF CAPITAL LETTERS and […]

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Hello World, App Store Edition

May 29, 2010

A pic­ture, with­out comment.

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The Mantis plugins keep coming: Tag Column

March 8, 2010

Over the week­end, I intro­duced a plu­gin for the Man­tis bug track­ing sys­tem that enforeced a “fixed-in” ver­sion when resolv­ing an issue as fixed.  If you missed it, you can visit the Force­FixedIn project page or the related blog post. Today, I would like to add another Mantis-related plu­gin to my list of projects.  This […]

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Forcing a fixed-in version with the Mantis bug tracker

March 6, 2010

At the office, we use Man­tis, a pow­er­ful PHP-based bug track­ing sys­tem.  It offers some great con­trol over process and work­flow, but not quite the gran­u­lar­ity that I need.  Specif­i­cally, I work in an envi­ron­ment where it is vital that the “fixed-in” ver­sion is filled in when resolv­ing an issue as “fixed.”  With­out this, there […]

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The simplicity of WordPress upgrades

March 5, 2010

One of the com­plaints I have heard about not run­ning your own Word­Press instal­la­tion ver­sus going with a man­aged ser­vice like Blog­ger or Live­Jour­nal is that it is dif­fi­cult to main­tain.  Specif­i­cally, that it is dif­fi­cult to upgrade.  This is why, about six months ago, a worm went around and took down a bunch of […]

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On Google Chrome (Mac, Linux, and nightly builds)

January 11, 2010

On Google Chrome As you may have heard, Google is work­ing on a web browser called Chrome.  There have been beta ver­sions out for Win­dows and Linux for some time.  The Mac ver­sion is still play­ing catch-up.  Because Fire­fox, the browser I now use, has appeared to get more slow and clunky over time, I […]

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PDA & Code">Netninja site changes: Hipster PDA & Code

December 29, 2009

Back­ground I have talked about my rela­tion­ship with the Hip­ster PDA for years.  It is a sort of love/hate thing.  I find that the basics are invalu­able.  I really love all the beau­ti­ful lit­tle tem­plates and forms that peo­ple have made for the 3″ x 5″ form fac­tor.  Alas, I find that most — if […]

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LJProxy: From friend-locked LiveJournal posts to Google Reader

November 30, 2009

I have been on Live­Jour­nal since 2001.  I have had a Per­ma­nent Account since 2005.  Many of my friends have used it for sim­i­lar amounts of time.  In the past few years, I have migrated my post­ing and read­ing off of Live­Jour­nal.  I do most of my blog read­ing through Google Reader, but still have […]

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