April 26th, 2010
Today I was working on Numerology for the iPad and I was trying to implement a date picker inside a popover. You can’t just put a UIDatePicker in the popover because you need a view controller. So I created a view controller and called it UIDatePickerViewController. It simply would not work. All I would get is a popover with a black area. I couldn’t figure out what was going on. Then I decided to just use the UIViewController class but load in the nib I created for my view controller. Viola it started to work. Then I realized my class name was the problem. I renamed the class DatePickerViewController and it worked as well. Somewhere Apple must have a private class called UIDatePickerViewController.
Bottom line: Don’t use class names similar to Apple’s class names. It will bite you sooner or later.
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April 15th, 2010
Just released a new update that addresses the new rate-limiting of the Backpack API. No more 503 errors when syncing. Get it here.
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April 13th, 2010
I have one customer who is getting a 503 error from the Backpack API when they sync. A lot of people should be running into this issue but I have not heard from anybody else. If you are having this problem, please let me know.
I believe it is caused by a new behavior of the API that puts on limit on the number of requests you can make to it in 5 seconds. Syncing can potentially make many requests in 5 seconds and I think that’s what the problem is.
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February 26th, 2010
Ryan Boswell writes:
Unfortunately the one application I would like to see that I can’t seem to find is something like PackRat but for Basecamp instead of Backpack
Read the rest here.
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February 19th, 2010
This morning I read a post by Erica Sadun entitled Create Shiny Buttons Easily. This inspired me to write a little app to make it easier to execute the sample code. It’s called Button Creator and you can download the Xcode project here. You can select a color by name or by the RGB color values. When you tap the Save button it will save the button image in your saved photos. If you are running it in the simulator, it will also save the image on your desktop.
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February 13th, 2010
I’ve been thinking of taking a different approach with Packrat’s user interface. I could go ahead and do this in Packrat 2 or wait till Packrat 3. The approach would be to make Packrat look like most information manager apps on the Mac which all look kind of like Mail. Each Backpack page would be treated like a folder. Selecting a page (or folder) would display a list of all the items (notes, images, etc.) on the page (in the folder). Then selecting an item would display that item.
I kind of like this approach. What do you think?
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February 1st, 2010
This weekend I remembered some posts I had read about turning your Macbook into an eBook reader. Here they are:
The reason I was thinking of them is because I’m looking forward to getting an iPad and I’m investigating how it would look and feel by looking at my notebook of similar size and doing whatever I can to see what this device might be like.
Well, let me tell you, trying the techniques in the links above really brought it home for me. The iPad is like no other device you have used. Sure it’s like an iPhone, but the bigger screen makes it a completely different device. Turn your Macbook sideways so your screen is in your lap and the keyboard is off to your right and imagine the keyboard is not there. The screen is just begging to be touched and interacted with like a real physical thing. Using a keyboard and mouse is an indirect method of interaction. It’s like telling someone else to grab an object and do something with it. Using a large touch screen is a direct experience. You get the hold the ball in your own hands.
I’m very excited about writing software for the iPad and can’t wait to get my hands on one. An iPad version of Numerology will be in the store from day 1 and I’m investigating other ideas.
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January 26th, 2010
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December 19th, 2009
Apple quickly approved Numerology 1.8 and it is now available in the app store. The push of this version is Facebook integration. You can import your Facebook friends and you can post reports to your Facebook wall. Some other changes are:
- New look
- Bug fixed with master number calculations
- Forecast date shown on forecast views
- alternate names are shown for the different numbers
- How a number is calculated is displayed in the reports
- The forecast date will automatically be set to today if you haven’t been there in a day.
- Fixed bug where when you created a new profile, selecting a picture would wipe out the name and birth date.
- Fixed a bug that caused a crash on launch caused by a profile being deleted.
That’s it. I hope you enjoy it.
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