kihon-blog

[kihon-blog]

Close enough to heckle Tim.

[kihon-blog]

'Nough said.

[kihon-blog]

Prediction: Siri will have greater integration with Apples apps. Developers will complain when the same is not offered for third party apps.

[kihon-blog]

What It’s Like To See Every Marvel Movie (For Fans and Non-Fans)

Accurate. (source)

[kihon-blog]

Glassboard

Was at lunch with a couple of friends I made during a local Hackathon and the discussion moved to collaboration tools.  Finding the right tool that fit everyone's needs and was something that entire teams would actually use became the focus of the conversation.  Sadly, there was no clear answer or resolution.

However, with WWDC on the horizon next week and Glassboard on my radar again for the event, I recommended that we carry on the conversation there and see what happens.  

I'll report back with more when I know how it's going. 

[kihon-blog]

We set out to build an app that lets users create beautiful, elegant and effective resumes using your iPhone or iPad. It's called RadResume, and you ...

I'm reading a lot of a new posts by first time developers re-iterating the basics of good app design.  The key points in development here are a bit refreshing though; basically, I'm happy to see that they aren't bashing Storyboards and Auto-layout.

Now I just hope that Apple gives us the tools next week to make Storyboards even more manageable. 

[kihon-blog]

This talk looks interesting.

[kihon-blog]

Scientists break down the physics and neuroscience behind Bruce Lee’s legendary one-inch punch, the bodily application of his famous "be like water" philosophy.

Drawing upon both physical and neuro power, Lee’s devastating one-inch punch involved substantially more than arm strength. It was achieved through the fluid teamwork of every body part. It was his feet. It was hips and arms. It was even his brain. In several milliseconds, a spark of kinetic energy ignited in Lee’s feet and surged through his core to his limbs before its eventual release.

[…]

Every bodily jerk has an apex of force. To not only maximize on that force — but to augment it — Lee perfectly synchronizes his movements, one after the other, linking them like boxcars on a train. To be sure, countless muscle men have been stronger than Lee, but few, if any, could deliver more more power than Lee with just one inch.

What makes the difference? Lee’s brain.

Or, one might argue, Lee’s mind.

The full article is well worth the read. 

(via It’s Okay To Be Smart)

[kihon-blog]

DMActivityInstagram

A UIActivity class for sharing images to Instagram.

iOS 6 introduced the new UIActivityViewController, which presents sharing options like Facebook and Twitter (as well as printing and copying). I wanted to adapt this for CatPaint, which currently uses ShareKit for sharing. My current Instagram sharer stopped working in iOS 6, and I figured now would be a good time to implement Instagram sharing using this new technique.

Usage is simple:

DMActivityInstagram *instagramActivity = [[DMActivityInstagram alloc] init]; NSArray *activityItems = @[self.imageView.image, @"CatPaint #catpaint", [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://catpaint.info"]]; UIActivityViewController *activityController = [[UIActivityViewController alloc] initWithActivityItems:activityItems applicationActivities:@[instagramActivity]]; [self presentViewController:activityController animated:YES completion:^{}];

Hopefully this code will be helpful for other people implementing their own UIActivity sharers, and getting Instagram support in to their apps.

I would love if someone took an axe to the visual design of the resizer view. It’s not my best work (especially on iPad it looks funny).

The resizer view is only needed if your app creates non-square images.

This is not in use in a shipping app yet, but it will be soon.

[kihon-blog]

Just a tableview implemented to test navigation from the reveal menu.

Nothing special right now.

[kihon-blog]

New menu approach to navigating.  Basic menu elements in, but it's not stylized at all.

Kinda like the facebook app or sparrow.  I'm sure that'll burn some folks but it's kinda needed. 

[kihon-blog]

The news feed.  No layout. No art.  Just functional elements.

[kihon-blog]

News detail from the feed.  Still no layout and art.

[kihon-blog]

Defcon 2.0

It's finally time to update the first app I worked on: The Defcon app. 

Original built in 3 weeks for Defcon 17, there were lots of nights of stress and creativity with my buddy Todd.  It's been sitting kinda abandoned for 2 years as other projects and other challenges (both personal and professional) got in the way.

Defcon 20 is a little over a month away and it's time for an update.  There have been so many changes to the tool set (xcode 4 madness) and to my approach to building apps that I've started an entirely new version of the project.  I'll be bringing in old code that makes sense and writing new code where it matters.

It's kinda rare for me right now to be completely in control of every aspect of an iOS right now, so I plan to document as much of it as possible here with code snippets, screenshots and comments.

Let me know what you think.

[kihon-blog]

Caught this link on twitter. Sadly, I can't find the original tweet to give credit.

While I won't mention the context, the point was pretty interesting: replace "design" in the article with "develop".  The same premise apply for doing development as a freelancer or small shop, especially in the mobile world (iOS, android).

[kihon-blog]

Originally mentioned in this blog post by Adam Nash, XLD is the way to do FLAC to Apple Lossless conversion.  It's super easy to use, so check it out.