Acerbic Resonance

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Month: September 2008

  • UITableView Hints

    As someone only recently exposed to Objective-C, Cocoa, and the iPhone development environments, I have been struggling with some of the ways that Apple has decided to do things. Today I beat my head against a UITableView for most of the day, trying to figure out how to set up the view, the datasource, the…

  • High Dynamic Range Photography

    Several weeks ago I ran across an article about HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography.  HDR photos are produced by taking several different shots of the same scene with different exposure settings, and then doing a sort of a blending of all the shots to produce one image.  The result can be anything from stunning to…

  • Homegrown Client / Server Data Sharing

    Recently at work I had to come up with a way to have several installations of our software share application data in near-real time.  I poked around a bit looking for a simple solution, but there does not appear to be such a thing. So I came up with my own. I don’t claim it’s…

  • New Family Room Shelves

    Those of you who know me personally know that I like to think I’m pretty handy with power tools. Ok, so mostly I take big pieces of wood and make them into smaller pieces of wood. I’ve built lots of stuff around the house – storage shelves in the garage, a workbench, some invisible shelves,…