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Königssee Europa Cup Results
I’m just realizing that I haven’t updated my blog with my results from the first half of the season. Seems I neglected it for my twitter and facebook accounts. Soo… Königssee Race #1 I was 7th: KOENIGSSEE, Germany (Nov. 25, 2011)- … Continue reading
Hastings Star Gazette Article
My hometown newspaper, The Hastings Star Gazette recently did an article about me: Hastings graduate takes aim at Olympics in the skeleton Seeing her son race down a snow covered track is nothing new for Hastings mother Sandy Blankenship. Seeing … Continue reading
The Global Drug War Is A Failure
The Drug War is a failure. Jimmy Carter in the New York Times: The report describes the total failure of the present global antidrug effort, and in particular America’s “war on drugs,” which was declared 40 years ago today. It … Continue reading
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LocaDo 1.1 Submitted to The AppStore
I submitted LocaDo 1.1 to the app store this weekend and wanted to give a sneak peak. New features include: A sleep mode for improved battery life, up to 60% better in my tests. Metric to do saving for our … Continue reading
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Example Objective-C Code for iOS/iPhone/iPad
Learning a new programming language can be difficult and sometimes developer documentation just doesn’t convey the message clearly and you need an example. Coming from PHP where every function is documented with example code, I feel this is one area … Continue reading
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Making the Rich Look Poor
Interesting. All about the presentation. As a public service, I’ve redrawn the chart for the Journal. On the left is the original. On the right is the chart that shows the actual amount of money earned by the tiny handful … Continue reading
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Car Pool Party Goes Live – My First App
I’m very happy to announce that today my first app for the iPhone has gone live on the iTunes app store. From the description: Car Pool Party was created for my fiancée to help her arrange and keep track of … Continue reading
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No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 billion dollar mistake. « Steve Blank
No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 billion dollar mistake. « Steve Blank. Re-reading this, good article.
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Dynamically adding UIActionSheet buttons
Today’s useful Objective C resource, dynamic buttons on a UIActionSheet. Awesome. The UIActionSheet is a very useful class, and I use it frequently in my apps, but its initialisation method doesn’t allow you to add buttons from an array. Instead … Continue reading
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alloc NSMutableArray and storing objects
Today’s interesting programming tidbit… If assigning an array to another NSMutable Array such as this: self.listData = [self userData]; You don’t need to alloc the listData array first, although i’m guessing it’s probably a good idea. However if you want … Continue reading
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