For a moment, I’d like to you remember what you can about The Matrix. Now, only think about the first film, and not the other two, as if you’re anything like me, you’ve spent considerable time and effort to suppress the memories of those even existing, and I’d hate for you to...

Update: hmmm… looks like this may be only a temporary fix after all. It worked yesterday, rolling from Sept. 2 to 3, but this morning the date didn’t update to Sept. 4. I’m still searching for a solution, but based on the number of other folks I’m seeing report this issue, hopefully...

After months of silence on the issue, I can finally reveal the project I’ve been working on for the last few months. I can also explain why you might find an unusual amount of Kelly Clarkson music on my iPod, and why I know every word of some of her songs. (It even explains why three geeks from...

emacs sucks. Before the emacs lovers get on my case, for the record, I hate vi, vim, pico, and pretty much every other command line based text editor as well. Like many developers, several times a day I fire up Terminal on my Mac to take care of a few things, mostly working with Subversion or Git. I...

Interested in getting the inside story about what is sure to be one of this summer’s hottest iPhone apps? If so, make sure to get your ticket to the 360|iDev conference that’s happening in Denver this September. I’ll be speaking about an app that Rain has been working on for the last...

With the release of the iPhone 3G S yesterday, the only thing that seemed to get more press than the actual phone itself was the deafening chorus of FAIL directed towards AT&T. AT&T has failed big time with this launch, in a few obvious ways, but there’s one spot where I’m going to...

Out of the box, the latest version of Xcode (3.1.2 as of this writing) has some built-in Subversion (SVN) integration. However, the version of SVN that Xcode links to is slightly outdated – 1.4. (The current version is 1.6.1) Not really a big deal if you only use Xcode to interact with SVN for...

You may have seen the news earlier today that an open source version of Wolfenstein 3D was released for the iPhone. John Carmack has written a lengthy, but very interesting description of the process of why it was done and how the porting the game to iPhone hardware went. If you’re interested at...

Pop quiz: In AS3, are static methods & variables inherited by subclasses? Answer: No. Static methods and properties of classes are not inherited by subclasses. You can however access the static members of a parent class from within it’s subclasses. This question came up today as I was helping...

Working on a recent project, I needed to collect mailing addresses, and to get the state info I decided use a ComboBox. I know I’ve done this before in the past, so I went looking for the code defining the list of states so I wouldn’t have to type it all up again, but after about five minutes...