Archive for January, 2011

The Complete Friday Q&A by Mike Ash

Posted by Dallas on January 27, 2011
Apple, Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, iOS, Mac, Objective-C, Programming, SDK / No Comments

Mike Ash has turned his famous Friday Question and Answer series into a book, available in either iBooks or Kindle versions.

Mike is an amazingly smart guy, who knows more about programming then you could ever imagine.

If you work with Objective-C you owe it to yourself to check out his book and his site.

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XMLRPC-iOS

Posted by Dallas on January 07, 2011
Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, iOS, Mac, Mercurial, Objective-C, Programming, XMLRPC / No Comments

I am working on a project where I need to make a XMLRPC connection to an API in Objective-C, and someone pointed me to:
Eric Czarny’s XMLRPC project on GitHub.

While this is great, it was done as a framework for Cocoa and since the project I am working on is for iOS 3rd party frameworks are not allowed. Instead they have to built as a Static Library.

So I started a new iOS Static Library project and converted over Eric’s code.
I now have a XMLRPC iOS Static Library ready for SDK 4.0 and greater.

You can find my iOS version on my BitBucket account.
Specifically: https://bitbucket.org/kdbdallas/xmlrpc-ios

Buy my decked out Mac Pro!

Posted by Dallas on January 05, 2011
Mac, Personal / No Comments

I have placed my decked out Mac Pro up for bid on eBay.

Don’t miss the chance to get a SCREAMING Mac at a fraction of the price!

Apple Mac Pro Dual Quad-Core Xeon 2.8G, 10G RAM, 2TB HD

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iDeskCal Approved for Mac App Store

Posted by Dallas on January 01, 2011
Apple, iDeskCal, Mac, Mac App Store, Programs / No Comments

iDeskCal has officially been approved for the Mac App Store!

Look for it when the Mac App Store is released on January 6th.

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A Little One On The Way

Posted by Dallas on January 01, 2011
Personal / No Comments

After over 2 years of trying, and going through fertility treatment and tons of fertility meds, we are finally expecting a new addition to our family!

This last week we were able to see the first “pictures” of the baby and hear the heart beat for the first time.

It’s still a bit early to know if it’s a boy or girl, but we are hoping to be able to find out in the next few weeks.
We are going to try and get back in right before my birthday (Jan 25) to try and find out.

The due date is August 1st, however since we have to do a C-Section we will probably end up around the end of July.
That said, our main goal is to make it past 25 weeks this time.
Past that everything is gravy :)

We are working on getting back in to see a Perinatologist, who along with our normal baby doctor will determine the best course of action to help insure we get past 25 weeks this time.

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