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Error -12986 and you

By Michael | Published: January 10, 2010
A customer recently got in touch with me with an odd problem — Talkie for iPhone was going silent on him. After a little diagnosis, it turned out the audio system was throwing up an undocumented error — -12986 — while starting up on his iPod Touch. Some googling turned up this thread on Stack [...]
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Links for June 3rd through June 18th

By Michael | Published: June 18, 2009
Links for June 3rd through June 18th: Ten logo design tips from the field | Logo Design Love 10 astonishing CSS hacks and techniques Adaptive CSS-Layouts: New Era In Fluid Layouts? effective techniques to create 100%-functional adaptive CSS-layouts WordPress Theme Development Frameworks If you build and develop WordPress themes often, you will probably be fed [...]
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Links for March 17th through April 24th

By Michael | Published: April 24, 2009
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 [...]
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Podcast interview with Dan Grigsby of Mobile Orchard on Loopy’s development

By Michael | Published: March 3, 2009
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 [...]
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Understanding error codes

By Michael | Published: February 28, 2009
Just in case there’s someone else that didn’t know this, when one gets an error code from one of the iPhone/OS X SDKs with no other information available, it can usually be looked up in the MacErrors.h header. Just open a terminal, type: open -h MacErrors.h Then do a search for your error code and [...]
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Links for February 10th through February 27th

By Michael | Published: February 27, 2009
Links for February 10th through February 27th: TinEye Reverse Image Search TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. Traffic Shaping in Mac OS [...]
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Happy Birthday, Loopy (Thanks, Apple)

By Michael | Published: February 17, 2009
Loopy is 2 months old! More interestingly, it’s just passed the $4000 AUD ($2640 USD, or $2050 EUR – stupid Australian dollar!) earnings point, which works out at about $500 a week. For essentially a niche app, I’m pretty damn happy. I can’t think of any other marketplace in history where almost anyone can jump [...]
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Developing Loopy, Part 2: Implementation

By Michael | Published: February 15, 2009

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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