January 2011
3 posts
wild chocolate: 13 Reasons Why Software Is Not... →
wildchocolate: Lately it seems more and more evident that the general population expects software to be free or at the very least cheap. This is reinforced when companies like Apple, who make a tremendous income off of their hardware, the iTunes store, and many other revenue streams, heavily discount their…
Jan 29th
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CoreLocation for Mac is Broken.
Sort of surprised that I haven’t written about this yet, actually… considering the thing has been a thorn in my side forever. In case you’ve been living under a rock, CoreLocation is Apple’s framework for finding a user’s geographical location based on either nearby WiFi networks, or cell radio towers.  It was originally developed for iOS and then ported over to the...
Jan 3rd
Ahoy GitHub!
Last year some time I released a bit of code on our site (http://centrix.ca/code).  The page has gotten quite a few visitors and downloads, but as that code was evolving it was a pain to update the site, and so we just didn’t.   I’ve just moved the code over to GitHub under our Oomph organization.  You can find it here: https://github.com/Oomph.   From now on I’ll be pushing...
Jan 2nd