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Do What You Love

How many times have you heard this from people?  For me, it’s too many to count… Ultimately I work on iOS, because it’s what I love.  It’s something that doesn’t seem like work to me.  It’s fun and exciting. Humble Beginnings A few years ago was a different story.  Objective-C and Cocoa were new and [...]

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Goodbye, Steve

An early start. I learned BASIC on a Commodore 64 around 1982 while my parents were in the university computer lab completing their lessons for their degrees, and I used it on an Apple II in Second Grade to freak out the guy telling everyone in the room what a computer was.  I remember it [...]

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Espresso: Mac Web Dev with Style

Espresso Code Editor

A long, long time ago, when I got my first MacBook, and started using it for web development, I came across an application by MacRabbit called CSSEdit.  At the time I was coming from the Windows world, and stylesheets were not something that you gave much attention to.  In fact, you embedded styles randomly into [...]

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The Best in iOS Learning

Back in 2003 I started to explore the Mac as a development platform for a computer security project I was working on.  After my wife stole my testing laptop, I decided to take another stab at it a few years later, and purchased my very own MacBook in 2006 when Apple went with Intel processors. [...]

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WordPress 3.2 Upgrade!

I logged into my website this evening to find WordPress 3.2 available as an upgrade. I spent yesterday working on a tutorial video for a client, and now I find that I’ll be recreating that video! The changes to the administration are pretty extensive, and it will take a while to uncover a number of [...]

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Silent Heros

Double Trouble

Immediately after graduating high school, having obtained my EMT license while in high school, I spent my days in the back of an Ambulance. At 19, I was too young to be a driver, but I also had 6 years of experience in emergency medical services with the volunteer fire department at this point, so [...]

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Android: First Glance

Android

It’s no secret that I’m hooked on Apple technology, and a fan of developing on the iOS platform. Android is quickly becoming an important operating system for the mobile market though, and I felt it was time to actually get my feet wet with Android, and AT LEAST learn how it works. I thought I [...]

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Standing in the Smoke

SAVES Engine 194

A number of years ago, as a volunteer Firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician, I learned so much about life, and I couldn’t think of anything I would have rather done with my time. One day on the nozzle at a house fire, the wind suddenly shifted on me. I was completely consumed in smoke and [...]

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