http://iridani.com dev://james.stansfield Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:47:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en No, no, not the new baby, that's tomorrow! With many thanks to OWC[[Mini Upgrade Video]] and a few dollars, my Mac Mini has more long and short term memory! 250 and 2 gigs respectively... Now to be productive! (After the backup restores... grumble grumble grumble) http://iridani.com/2008/07/the-operation-was-a-success/ Okay, maybe some of these are more annoyances than quirks:   Springboard Application Placement Upon Update This one gets me every time an application has an update. If I've gone through the trouble of taking an application (that I paid for) and drag it across six pages of apps so that it can ... http://iridani.com/2008/07/iphone-os-20-quirks/ Automattic released it's iPhone blogging tool for Wordpress. This is my first attempt to post using it and I'll keep my judgement to myself until later. Of note however, it seems that there isn't anyway to upload a photo from my phone to the blog. (At least I haven't really looked all ... http://iridani.com/2008/07/iphone-post-2/ I've just spent a hour reading the first chapter of Aaron Hillegass' excellent Cocoa Programming For Mac OS X[[amazon.ca]] Aaron makes it easy to pick up Objective-C and start learning the ins and outs of event driven applications. This is the first time I've really started to 'get' this model ... http://iridani.com/2008/06/cocoa-programming-for-mac-os-x/ I'm going to attempt to not spam this site with a bunch of non-development work stuff. I've other blogs for that... But in keeping with the vein of this website[[code code code]], I've recently been pointed to a very cool website who's basic premise is too simple to have not ... http://iridani.com/2008/06/refactormycodecom-great-idea/ I've released[[jqs_random @ Wordpress Extend]] (finally) a version of what I consider a 'starter' Wordpress[[Wordpress]] plugin. This little baby is a simple text replacement thingy. The nice thing is that is easily demonstrates a clean plugin that won't trip over other plugins, creates proper administration pages utilizing AJAX and uses 2.5's ... http://iridani.com/2008/06/jqs_random-released/ A lot has happened since I put this blog on hiatus a couple of years ago. I've changed positions at my place of work, I've completed a bunch of interesting projects, my wife and I have welcomed our first child into our lives and I've been given my freedom! That's right, ... http://iridani.com/2008/04/new-blog/