Monthly Archives: March 2011

[Objective-C + Cocoa] Screen Capture, Multiplexing, and More

Posted on March 28, 2011 by aroth

It’s been a bit quiet on the coding-front lately, so I thought I’d share a small handful of various utilities that I’ve developed over the past few weeks. None of them are particularly revolutionary, but they can certainly prove useful … Continue reading →

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Introducing Webcomix

Posted on March 19, 2011 by aroth

I wanted to take a brief moment to invite anyone who stumbles across this post to beta-test my latest personal project; Webcomix. Webcomix is a simple web-comic aggregation service that allows you to read a number of different comics on … Continue reading →

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[Hardware] Intel Atom D510 Server Build

Posted on March 13, 2011 by aroth

As mentioned awhile back, the aging server box that was being used to host this blog started to develop some stability issues and I decided to replace it with an Intel Atom based machine. After nearly a month spent waiting … Continue reading →

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[JavaScript + CSS] Fun with Google Maps

Posted on March 11, 2011 by aroth

Here are a couple of quick Google Maps hacks that I came up with quite awhile ago; several years ago, in fact. While not hugely useful or profound, they do expose some fairly large holes in the Google Maps API. … Continue reading →

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[Status] Upgrade Complete

Posted on March 9, 2011 by aroth

Finally all the parts arrived, and the build and migration process was completed without incident. This site is now hosted on a shiny new energy-efficient Atom D510 based server box. More details on the hardware and the build and configuration … Continue reading →

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[Cocoa + iPhone] Avoiding ‘_handleMemoryWarning:’ Crashes

Posted on March 5, 2011 by aroth

Spend enough time developing iPhone applications (particularly if you go to the trouble of collecting crash logs from your apps), and eventually you are bound to come across something like the following: This error occurs most frequently when suspending an … Continue reading →

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