exploration: accounts of success and misadventure
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Site-Specific: Week 2, Comments
This is a rough collection of comments and notes on the assignment for week 2 of Site-Specific.
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Driving Forces
[assignment in the syllabus] A driving force is a trend or factor, operating in the world today, which will influence the way the future evolves over the next 5-15 years. We were asked to identify a driving force, and it’s associated predetermined elements and critical uncertainties. Driving Force: There is a desire for immediate knowledge of […]
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Goffman – Individual as Unit
In Erving Goffman’s “The Individual as Unit” (chapter one of his book “(Relations in Public)”) the person is examined as a discreet component in a larger sociological context. The role of individuals are described as a vehicular unit or as a participation unit. I found it interesting to classify an individual as a vehicle, and […]
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Golden Cheetah 1.2.0rc1
Golden Cheetah is about to release a new version. There have been extensive updates…some great, unique new features for analyzing cycling power training data. The full feature list will be announced with the official release. In brief: direct SRM download colorized power zones in plots altitude (from supported files) WKO file support (including bulk import) […]
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it’s good to be away…
just returned from a much needed week in Aruba. the only tech i allowed myself to get involved with was a Google Voice / Gizmo5 integration for free calls back home using local wifi (which worked out really). now to get back to work…the semester is looming. (but it may be hard to focus after […]
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No summertime fun: BeachBall rejected
BeachBall was recently rejected by the iPhone Developer Program on the claim that it infringes an Apple trademark image. I’m not surprised by this at all, although I was taken aback by the (relatively) quick response – 7 days. The usual Guidelines for Using Apple’s Trademarks and Copyrights was quoted: Apple Logo and Apple-owned Graphic […]
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Summer time: BeachBall
The BeachBall app has been submitted to the iPhone App Store. I’m pretty sure that I’ve crossed all the t’s and dotted the i’s throughout the application and am holding out hope for a smooth process. If all goes well it will be a great surprise just before the next semester kicks off. Thanks to […]
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PinwheelBeta – adhoc
In preparation of submitting Pinwheel to the App Store I’ve gone and released a beta version via ad hoc distribution. Seems like it should be a straightforward prospect, however the various device provisioning, code signing profiles and entitlements made it a bit of a process for a first-timer. iTunes also seems to be entirely unhelpful […]
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cross-compiling for iPhone dev
Update: Proof-of-concept demo. Also, updated the script for building with the 10.6 SDK. Update #2: Source code for demo project released. Update #3: script for use with tesseract v3 posted. I recently had need to use an open-source library in an iPhone project. Recalling the earlier work necessary in compiling the libraries needed for openFrameworks […]
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openFrameworks iPhone 3GS / OS 3.0
i’ve been dealing with a performance bug in a particle + accelerometer oF app. the same project which has run very smoothly on a first generation iPhone with OS 2.2.1 has a noticeable stutter on an iPhone 3GS with OS 3.0. there was no improvement despite several rounds of optimizing the openGL drawing code and […]