a weblog by one jonathan zhan, who makes iPhone games at The Dumpling Dimension.
May21
An Android prototype from December 2007.
I think it’s important to remember where Android was heading before the iPhone.
The times, they are a-changin!
I didn’t know this! At least that finally explains the strange decision to include so many hardware buttons in Android devices.
May16
May13
Windows Phone 7: Floppy disk save icon on a phone interface FTL.
May4
Today I’m officially launching a new blog dedicated to beautiful iPad wallpapers called 1024 Square. All the wallpapers on the site are 1024x1024, the perfect size for landscape and portrait on iPad. The wallpapers themselves will be curated from dozens of different sources across the ‘net. (I’ll always give the original creator a credit. If you see something that’s improperly credited, please let me know.) Some were made specifically for iPad, and some I’ve modified myself to work with the proper resolution. I’ll be posting a new one at least once a day.
Huge thanks to Pat Dryburgh, Garrett Murray, and Jorge Quinteros for inspiration and Neven Mrgan for his amazing iPad wallpaper PSD.
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Apr9
My friend got HIV at age 6 when she was raped.
She loved to learn, but couldn’t continue in school after HS due to her illness. She died during my second year of college.
I found out at a memorial service that our history teacher had gone to her house to read to her every day until she died. GMH.
THIS story gives people hope? The fuck?
iPhone OS4 looks good. Game Center looks hot. Accelerated math functions? HELLO. Ooo and Regex.
Apr6
Josh Holloway on his new beginnings.
For Josh: Good luck! I hope this new start gets you someplace fun.
Aside from that, since in a lot of ways I suffer from the same start-and-stop habits, I thought I’d share a thought or two.
1) The “Beginning X Programming” books are nice work, I read the iPhone variant and it was useful in bits. However, it was a lot less useful to me than Hillegass’ “Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X”, which I cannot recommend highly enough. The latter does a much better job of explaining the magic that goes on with the framework, and for people who tinker and want to understand things, it’s a great resource.
2) I’m also someone who started on programming a little late. What made the difference to me was working on things that I personally wanted. It’s incredibly easy (I find) losing steam on small academic projects for learning. For me, thinking of something I want to actually use is worth more than any other kind of motivation. YMMV, but I wanted to share the thought since a lot of things in your story sounded familiar to me. ;)
3) Perhaps you can consider blogging your progress, especially if there are technical frustrations. Then if you give up early all your readers can berate you for letting them down. Wouldn’t that be swell? :P
Apr2
Mar26
The TV Theme Medley by FreddeGredde
originally by… well, lots of people(via ardenashley:Pop Candy)
The list:
0:01 Two and a Half Men
0:22 The Simpsons
0:36 O.C
1:00 Naruto
1:11 Family Guy
1:41 Married with Children
1:57 Cheers
2:16 That 70’s Show
2:41 Big Love
2:58 Freaks and Geeks
3:18 Malcolm in the Middle
3:35 X-Files
3:55 Firefly
4:09 The Office
4:24 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
4:44 Scrubs
4:54 True Blood
5:27 Charles in Charge
5:38 The Big Bang Theory
5:55 How I Met Your Mother
6:05 Mission Impossible
6:14 Friends
Ahh, quite lovely.
Mar25
YouTube - Content-Aware Fill Sneak Peek OMG OMG OMG WTF
