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Archive for May, 2010
On motivation
31, May 2010Everyone should know this. I linked both the animated presentation from RSA Animate, and a TED talk from Dan Pink. Go watch the TED talk first, Dan Pink is a really capable speaker. If you don’t watch this, just remember: Pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table. Big financial rewards [...]
- In: Productivity
NSDateFormatter and +00:00 parsing
17, May 2010Just had a gotcha trying to compile one of my projects on OS4. NSDateFormatter refused to parse dates, just returned zero. After further investigation, the problem was an almost unnoticeable difference in the date format: 2010-05-17T19:08:11+02:00 But the unicode standard needs a +0200, thus NO Semicolon. NSDateFormatter for 10.5 and OS3 just silently quit parsing, and [...]
- In: ObjectiveC
iPad Code Goldmine
8, May 2010OmniGroup has released some nifty stuff. OmniUI/iPad: – First release of this framework! – Includes a bunch of features from our iPad apps – Document picker, basic document-based application support – CoreText-based text editor (still a work in progress, but a great start) – We’ll be working more on performance for large blobs of text, [...]
- In: ObjectiveC
HP knows what they are doing
3, May 2010From daringfireball (..) Apple makes six times the profit from iPhone OS device sales than HP makes from PC sales — despite the fact that by unit sales, HP is the world’s leading PC maker, and Apple is not the leading smartphone maker. HP’s purchase of Palm shows that they understand this opportunity.
- In: Random Stuff
