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I am Michael Tyson, and I run A Tasty Pixel. I write on a variety of technology and software development topics as I travel around Europe in a motorhome.
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Links for May 21st through June 2nd
Links for May 21st through June 2nd:
49 Decent Virtual Assistant & Personal Outsourcing Resources
PHP: Display Adobe PSD files on a web page "Any webdesigner know the PSD filetype, which is the Adobe Photoshop format. PSDs have a lot of great features, as such as layers, but they can’t being read by a browser. Unless [...]
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Links for March 17th through April 24th
Links for March 17th through April 24th:
XSD Schema XML Validator A XSD Schema validator in Java, provides lots of useful information; use it with a schema and an xml instance
Three20 Three20 is a collection of iPhone UI classes, like a photo viewer, and general utilities, like an HTTP disk cache. Three20 is derived from the [...]
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Sneak preview of my new web framework Michaelangelo
I’ve been working on a new web framework which provides image theming – a little like what Elegant Grunge does with its image frames, but much more sophisticated.
For example:
This is a PHP framework that uses the common GD library to manipulate images.
It’s main interface is a content filter – give it HTML, containing images, and [...]
Also tagged Development, Graphics, PHP, Web 8 Comments
Links for February 28th through March 3rd
Links for February 28th through March 3rd:
Lifehacker readers: Most Popular Reliable and Affordable Web Hosts Top seven hosts as voted by readers (DreamHost, Blue Host, NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, 1&1, GoDaddy, HostGator and A Small Orange)
Domainr, the domain name search engine Given a name, suggests a variety of different domain name possibilities, and reports on availability
Even More Rounded [...]
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Podcast interview with Dan Grigsby of Mobile Orchard on Loopy’s development
Last Thursday I did an interview with Dan Grigsby from Mobile Orchard; the interview is now online.
Highlights from this interview include:
From UIView to OpenGL: the seven different implementations it took to finalize its unique — and Best App Ever award-nominated — UI.
From audio-queues to Remote IO: the four different architectural approaches he tried before finalizing [...]
Also tagged Cocoa, Development, iPhone, Loopy, Software 2 Comments
Developing Loopy, Part 2: Implementation
This is part 2 of a series following the development of Loopy, my iPhone app. Part 2 describes a number of implementation challenges encountered.
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Links for January 31st through February 9th
These are my links for January 31st through February 6th:
- NSCollection Extensions Weird and wonderful extensions to key/value coding ([myRecordCollection valueForKeyPath: @"[collect].{artist like 'Tom Waits'}.<NSUnarchiveFromDataTransformerName>.albumCoverImageData"])
- Free Fonts Generator Make Your Own Handwriting Font
- Grayson's pluginmanager A series of classes that provides support for a vast number of scripting languages as well as standard Cocoa bundles
- Deezer Listen to full songs online: Good for getting a preview of albums, much better than iTunes' silly 30 second snippets
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Links for June 3rd through June 18th