Zach 2010-06-09
Our little guy will sometimes stand without holding on to anything for a few seconds. He says "Hi!" a lot lately. He now seems to love pasta (well, penne at least), which he didn't seem to like a few weeks ago.
Author: Marc
The quest for a better UIAlertView
One of the things that has annoyed me while developing my iPhone game "Wordly" are dialogs that appear modal to the user, but are non-blocking from the programmer perspective. For example, let's take UIAlertView. You tell a...
Cocoa folks: How would you indent this code?
One of the things that has bugged me about Cocoa is that the long method names and the de-facto indentation style (of lining up the colons in method invocations) conspire to create hard-to-read code with super long lines and...
What happened to the SD West conference?
I've gone to the SD West conference a few times in the past and enjoyed a lot of the talks which are typically in a wide variety of areas of software development. While cleaning up my blog, I noticed that http://sdexpo.com/ now...
Tornado: named groups in url pattern regexes
I have been messing around with Tornado (a fairly new Python web server/web framework that came from FriendFeed) for a while. One thing that was missing was support for named groups in url pattern regexes. I submitted a patch and...
Traveling with a baby
hasn't been bad at all. Zach has spent a lot of the car time sleeping and even when he's not sleeping, he's been pretty cheerful (probably because he's so well-rested?)
Easy as ABC
If you were expecting this to be about abstract base classes, then you are bound to be disappointed. Unless perhaps you have an infant at home. We have discovered that we can often calm Zach when he's in a cranky mood by singing...