Posts by lorenb:
Google Wave
Finally got an invite onto Google Wave. If you’ve never heard of it before, here is a short video on what it is and some of the things it can do.
I’d like to setup my own wave server long term and just federate over to Google’s (and other people’s systems).
Firedfox
I started using Firefox as my web browser when it was still called Phoenix around version 0.5/0.6. Previously I was using Netscape Communicator which had become a bloated mess.
At the time Firefox was a breath of fresh air. It was just a browser without all the mail, IRC client, web page designer that came [...]
iPhone 3GS
Finally got a iPhone 3GS. They have been sold out in Canada and some what hard to get up here. Got a friend to pick me one up in Hong Kong. As a bonus the phone is unlocked (it’s against the law in Hong Kong to sell carrier locked phones) so I can use it [...]
Snow Leopard Install
Got my copy of Snow Leopard today. I’m in the process of installing it now on my Macbook. The install was straightforward as you can see from the screenshots below. I don’t expect any issues.
Note there is an iPhone SDK available for Snow Leopard now (400MB download) at the iPhone Dev Center
Snow Leopard
Apple is now taking pre-orders for OSX 10.6 a/k/a Snow Leopard. It will ship on Aug 28th. It cost me $35 CDN to upgrade from 10.5. If I had bought a mac recently it would have been $9.95.
Too bad Apple insists on phyical CDs. Would be nicer to just buy an ISO and I could [...]
MMATracker 2.4
MMATracker v2.4 has been submitted to Apple. Changes in this release:
Fixed problems with MMAJunkie news feed
Show title/description for news articles
Replace WAMMA with Strikeforce in Champions view
Remove deprecated APIs
Note that MMATracker now requires OS 3.x so if you are still using 2.x now would be a good time to upgrade.
Screenshot of news view in portrait:
In landscape:
ASCII vs UTF8
We got some email from MMATracker users saying that the MMAJunkie RSS feed wasn’t working in the application any more.
The code that I was using:
NSURL *xmlURL = [NSURL URLWithString:URL];
NSError *err = nil;
NSString *xmlFeed = [[NSString alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:xmlURL encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:&err];
if (err) {
// handle error
}
After some trial/error, I determined the problem was the encoding. It was ASCII [...]