Archive for November, 2008

Crappy Weekend

Monday, November 24th, 2008

Nothing like having the shit hit the fan on a Friday and requiring you to work to over the weekend to, well, ruin your weekend. I was still able to make various previously planned meal engagements but I was haunted by the specter of the recovery work.
I guess my good friends at Citibank had the [...]

Slow UIImage

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Let’s say you’re working on an iPhone app. Let’s say you’ve created some UIImage’s from some .png’s in your bundle and then used -stretchableImageWithLeftCapWidth. And you’re using them with some custom controls or just customizing UIButton (because, really, that’s the only way you’re going to get decent looking buttons). Everything runs great on the simulator.
Then [...]