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iPhone Development for Mac Development Newbies

January 18th, 2009 - Programming, Technology, Work, iphone - 1 Comment

I recently switched to a Mac platform (for pleasure) and started developing on it, and even more recently started iPhone application development. I’d never seen (or heard of) xcode, cocoa, and those things. I’ve found the experience at times trivially easy (e.g. download/run/launch a sample in seconds, then learn from it’s code. Awesome) and sometimes [...]

Twittering Twitterers & other Wild Observers

November 13th, 2008 - Outdoors, Technology - No Comments

I wrote http://wildobs.com with support for numerous Atom feeds (e.g.  http://wildobs.com/adam_jack.atom) because they just make sense; folks can query into a database for things that interest them, and access the information when they want it. Customized notifications w/o the interruptions.
Funny thing is … I know of so few people who actually read feeds. Even techies, many just [...]

Elk celebrating the fall colors

October 22nd, 2008 - Colorado, Outdoors, Planet Earth - No Comments

The elk seems to be avoiding some weather down at the bottom of the canyon. Enjoy them, and the colors.

Geolocating browsers, where is the placename?

October 17th, 2008 - Technology - No Comments

I’ve was pleased to get my hands on Mozilla Lab’s Geode, their plug-in implementation of Geolocation API. I’ve been looking for something like this for a while.
What disappoints me is the API is just about numbers, not names. They do have latitude, longitude (and altitude, which is great) but no placename/placemark. Raw numbers are just [...]

Gravatar (shared avatar)

October 10th, 2008 - Technology - No Comments

I am in the process of working Gravatar into my WildObs site. Gravatar provides “hosted user icons” (avatars) for comments on blog/forums/social networks. I applaud that (1) ‘cos I don’t want to host/manage/backup (2) I wanted to save myself writing the  image crop (3) folks can use what they’ve already created.
They have good integration support, [...]

Ruby on Rails on Mac

October 2nd, 2008 - Technology, Work, mac - No Comments

At the beginning of the year I started a mental/physical (and technical) journey. I took a leap into the career unknown. After a lot of hikes/snowshoes along came Ruby on Rails on a Mac,  a nomadic work-style, and a lot of fresh encounters. Not an easy transition (and still in progress) but so far a rewarding [...]

A bear locks itself in a car, and …

September 24th, 2008 - Colorado, Outdoors, Planet Earth - 2 Comments

http://wildobs.com/kathykeating/2008/7/30/what-a-bear-can-do-while-searching-for-food