Monthly Archives: February 2011

Reunion

Posted on February 28, 2011 by aroth

And now for something completely different; some light fiction: Slowly and with much deliberation he approached, taking care to avoid her eyes and the fierce and beautiful and terrifying intensity that he knew must still burn there even after so … Continue reading →

Posted in banter, fiction, writing | Tagged | Leave a comment

[JavaScript] setTimeout() and Closures

Posted on February 20, 2011 by aroth

If you’ve done any amount of non-trivial JavaScript coding then you have probably come across the ‘setTimeout()‘ function before. In case you haven’t, this function takes a JavaScript expression and evaluates/executes it after a set delay (specified in milliseconds). For … Continue reading →

Posted in coding, javascript | Tagged , | Leave a comment

[JavaScript] parseInt() Quirks

Posted on February 19, 2011 by aroth

Here’s a subtle little feature of JavaScript’s ‘parseInt()‘ function that I recently stumbled across. The radix used in the parse will default to 8 (octal) if the string you are parsing includes a leading zero. For instance: …will return 7, … Continue reading →

Posted in coding, javascript | Tagged , | 3 Comments

[Status] Upgrade Delays

Posted on February 15, 2011 by aroth

I just found out that the Atom CPU and mainboard that I ordered is on backorder won’t be getting here until the end of the month (why did the site I purchased it from list it as “In Stock” when … Continue reading →

Posted in status | Leave a comment

[Objective-C + Cocoa] UIScrollView and contentSize

Posted on February 12, 2011 by aroth

So here’s a simple one. For whatever reason, a UIScrollView instance only behaves correctly if you programmatically set its contentSize when you use it. This is fairly silly because in most cases the contentSize is simply the total size of … Continue reading →

Posted in coding, objective-c | Tagged , , | 8 Comments

[Cocoa + iPhone] UITableViewCell: It’s Broken!

Posted on February 10, 2011 by aroth

I present for your consideration the following screenshot: It shows a basic table-view, in which each cell has been assigned the same image (using its built-in ‘imageView‘ property). The source image is 20 pixels square, and the imageView’s ‘contentMode‘ property … Continue reading →

Posted in coding, objective-c | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

[Cocoa + iPhone] Unraveling Apple’s Pagecurl

Posted on February 9, 2011 by aroth

First off, I encourage anyone that’s unfamiliar of this topic to read through this short but very sweet blog post on the subject (and to take a quick look at his sample code). We’ll be picking up where Steven left … Continue reading →

Posted in coding, objective-c | Tagged , , , | 10 Comments

[Site Status] Server Instability

Posted on February 8, 2011 by aroth

The 10-year-old PC that I’m currently using to host this site seems to be going through an end-of-life crisis. If you’re reading this then it must currently be up (or you accessed Google’s cached version), but there’s no guarantee it … Continue reading →

Posted in status | Leave a comment

[Objective-C + Cocoa] NSAutoreleasePool and Threads

Posted on February 4, 2011 by aroth

If you have a multithreaded iPhone/iPad/Cocoa application, you are probably aware that for each thread you create you need to set up an auto-release pool for that thread. If you don’t do this then you’ll get some nice messages in … Continue reading →

Posted in coding, objective-c | Tagged , | 1 Comment

[C (and variants)] Pointer Declarations: You’re Doing it Wrong

Posted on February 3, 2011 by aroth

It happens on occasion, in the programming world, that bad coding conventions become the norm. Consider for instance the following two lines of code: Both lines are equivalent as far as the compiler is concerned, but when a human being … Continue reading →

Posted in c, coding | Tagged , | 5 Comments