Author Archives: aroth

The Essence

Posted on December 12, 2013 by aroth

You can feel it in the space around you It’s like there’s something in the way that you can’t find And you can’t hide You’re only thinking it a day at a time Somehow you’ve got to make a change … Continue reading →

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On Notice

Posted on November 24, 2013 by aroth

Until you crash, until you burn While you lie, until you learn Until you see, until you believe I will fight you. Until you fall, Until the end of everything at all I will fight you. Until you give, until … Continue reading →

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[JavaScript] Finding Equidistant Lat/Long Coordinates

Posted on December 3, 2011 by aroth

Here’s a quick one that was inspired by a StackOverflow question and built using the references posted here. It allows you to compute the position of an arbitrary number of points (expressed as latitude/longitude pairs) equidistant from a given centerpoint … Continue reading →

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[iOS] Jira Mobile Connect

Posted on November 4, 2011 by aroth

Not long ago Atlassian released version 1.0 (now up to 1.0.7) of their Jira Mobile Connect plugin. This is a plugin for Jira (obviously) that aims to simplify testing, error-reporting, and feedback collection/management for iOS applications. Assuming that you are … Continue reading →

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[JavaScript] Creating an Animated Hurricane Tracker

Posted on September 11, 2011 by aroth

Here’s a fun little diversion I came up with when the news was all abuzz with information about Hurricane Irene. Now I use Wikipedia almost exclusively for keeping track of this sort of thing as I find that it consistently … Continue reading →

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Natural Scrolling Isn’t

Posted on July 23, 2011 by aroth

Mac users and other developers such as myself who have no choice but to use a Mac for certain projects will already know what I’m talking about. For everyone else, however, the newest version of OS X includes a most … Continue reading →

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[JavaScript] Naming Your Function ‘$’ is not Clever

Posted on July 16, 2011 by aroth

The atrocity that is the dollar function dates back at least 2005 and the introduction of the Prototype Framework. Back in those days, ‘$()‘ was simply a shorthand way of saying ‘document.getElementById()‘ without having to type all 24 characters. And … Continue reading →

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Resurrecting sun.misc.Unsafe

Posted on July 10, 2011 by aroth

Here’s one that only the hardcore Java hackers will enjoy. Perhaps you are already familiar with sun.misc.Unsafe. This heavily protected internal class provides access to a number of low-level memory operations and system functions that are generally hidden away from … Continue reading →

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[Android] Installing Adobe AIR on the Android Emulator

Posted on July 3, 2011 by aroth

I’ve got no idea why this process is so poorly documented, nor why many of the existing resources describing how to install the AIR runtime on the Android emulator are so needlessly circuitous, pointing you to links on the official … Continue reading →

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[XCode] Building Universal iOS Frameworks

Posted on June 26, 2011 by aroth

Here’s an excellent little project that I stumbled across not too long ago: https://github.com/kstenerud/iOS-Universal-Framework This project provides a single installation shell script that will add a new Project Template to XCode, one that can be used to build universal iOS … Continue reading →

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