VeloVoyeur

More info is here. We are currently in review at Apple…that sounds about right for making the Paris-Nice deadline!

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ohCanada – Winter Games Watch

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The Winter Games Watch is simply your portal to the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter games. The application gives you the schedule for each day by date or by event. As well, Winter Games Watch will show you how to get to the venue, should you be so lucky as to heading north this February.

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Callout bubble in MKMapView

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All i needed was some custom text in the call out bubble, and then i needed that bubble to appear just as the pin dropped. i spent hours on something that seemed so simple…and actually , it is simple.

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Adding an int or float to an Array or Dictionary

omg, i can’t believe how strict Objective C can be. While working with MKMapView on an iPhone app i am currently writing, i was trying to pass the lattitude and longitude to a custom class. My code looked like:

NSDictionary *locationDictionary = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:49.277778,@"lat",-123.108889,@"long",nil];

alas, one must do this:

NSDictionary *locationDictionary = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[NSNumber numberWithFloat:49.277778],@"lat",[NSNumber numberWithFloat:-123.108889],@"long",nil];

i think i need to start a post of the little things that drive me mad in this crazy language. By far , concatenating a string is the winner.

scrubbing video [NetStream]

I always like to do my video players from the ground up…i guess it’s just my style. I have used often the FLVPlayback, but there is a satisfaction in creating your own player. One thing that always plays with my head is the scrubbing. It’s the actual Math that gets me, and generally, i get it after a few tries…but never on the first (much like the custom scrollbar) . Read the rest of this entry »