I picked this up in Waterstones, after a quick browse.  It is more or less a book version of Ben’s blog, which in turn is related to his column in the Guardian.  It’s a reasonably entertaining exposé of newspaper journalism concerning health stories. The main topics covered are: nutritionists, MMR, and homeopathy.  In order: he […]
Tagged book reviewThis is the first in a series of posts reviewing books, as I read them. Â Older book reviews here are mostly archives of reviews that I have posted to Amazon, some for computing books, others for cookery books. I first read A Princess of Mars in my early teens (I was possibly 12 at the […]
Tagged book reviewThis is the draft of the App Store info page: HandyPoints is an easy-to-use points calculator which makes it simple for you to work out the points score for any food item, and helps you on your journey to your goal weight. Â Â Use HandyPoints to help you diet responsibly. Just put in the right values […]
Tagged iphoneThere are a few simple key combinations that help a lot when using Xcode – I don’t mean just the emacs key bindings (which are worth a post all on their own), but autocomplete and lookups. Â I suffer badly from forgetting these keystrokes when I switch between Xcode and Eclipse (and TextMate and all sorts […]
Tagged xcodeDetecting shakes is easy. Balancing the sensitivity so that a lighter shake is required forward and back to trigger an event than sideways, or up and down – that takes a bit more work. Writing this code the first time will make your controller classes look like a mess, so it’s time to refactor that […]
Tagged iphoneI’m going to jot down a few notes about image sizes for iPhone apps – these facts are hard to unearth, and I haven’t yet found them all together in place; hence this post. Â I will update this if I find out any more. For most purposes, an iPhone app uses png format images; however […]
Tagged iphoneHi! Â Switching this blog to WordPress. Â It started in plain html, moved to blosxom, then adopted blojsom when Apple included it in Mac OS X Server, which then painfully languished – so it’s time to move on. I will repopulate old pages over time, then redirect the web server to here. Benefits: commenting reenabled, better […]
This is in the cocoa-programming Apple list FAQ (if you can find it), but it deserves wider currency. If nothing else, I’m always forgetting the details. If you want to change the __CompanyName__ text that Xcode puts into every single file’s comment headers: defaults write com.apple.Xcode PBXCustomTemplateMacroDefinitions ‘{ “ORGANIZATIONNAME” = “My Company”; }’
Tagged cocoa, xcodeSitting right here in a cafe (Stell’s, Redlands, CA), I have been listening to a play list from the 60s. Ordinarily that would be great – much Neil Young, CSN, Nick Drake, and many tracks that I am familiar with from the first time around (and the cafe owners presumably aren’t). But I was fantasising […]
Our hire car, supposed to be compact/intermediate, was a Mitsubishi Eclipse – which I detest. It has two doors, alcantara trim on the seats, and people say “ooh, sporty!”. The acceleration isn’t too bad, either, although the vagaries of automatic gearboxes (it’s a hire car, what do you expect?) make it surprising hard to tell. […]