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iPhone book and objc blog...
I am constantly blown away that the cool winding and twisting of life... I am done the Core Animatio
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Bill Dudney's Weblog

iPhone book and objc blog...
I am constantly blown away that the cool winding and twisting of life... I am done the Core Animation book, now just waiting for the iPhone NDA to lift so we can ship it. I started a book on iPhone for the prag's, which is very very fun and cool too.
Core Animation Screen Cast Episode 4 On Line
I finished Episode 4 up last night and the gerbils (i.e. Mike Clark) @ PragProg already turned it into a downloadable movie. You can grab it here. This episode came in a bit long (at 42 minutes) but I could not think of what to delete. The main th
Woot!
iPhone, key arrived, os installing, nothing to be said, NDA and all that, very excited... Lame attempt to be funny, hard to be silent.
Mac Developer Round Table
Scotty was kind enough to have me on the Mac Developer Roundtable tonight. If you are interested in WWDC or iPhone SDK please have a listen. It was tons of fun! Thanks again Scotty! For those of you coming here from Scotty's site check out my Core
New Mini Online...
As I documented here my poor old PPC mini was having trouble keeping up with the success of my wife's iPhone Games so I bought and configured a new Intel mini and shipped it off last week. It went on line yesterday and is now barely above 10% CPU usa
Coming Home...
Way back in college I had the great privilege of working on a NeXTCube (started on system 0.9, yes I'm old...) with Mathematica doing some really cool non-linear stuff. It was my first exposure to Unix (which of course spoiled me rotten) and I was ho
Zero G?
So way back in the day when I worked at NASA one of the projects I was involved in was the space suits for Reagan's space station. That was supposed to be assembled from K'enx type things and they needed new suits to give the astronauts more time in
Alfresco on OS X - ImageMagic and OpenOffice
Alfreso is a fantastic ECM solution that has some amazing features and some great momentum. It has been more than a year since I've used Alfresco and man have they gotten some cool stuff done. I spent the last couple of days getting certified to te
Maven - Choose Your Pain (Re: mostly hate)
So I generally feel that using maven or ant or make or shell scripts, building is a pain in the neck and what ever way you choose you will have pain. You get used to the pain of one kind or another and sort of grow to like that sort of pain and you f
Java on Leopard - enough complaining
So while reviewing the release notes for Java on Leopard I noticed a couple of interesting bits. First they included junit 4.1 and maven 2.0.6 in the mix, which is great (except that maven 2.06 had some serious bugs with transitive dependencies). mvn
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