While networks are awesome in the abstract, actual implementations are messy. Take multicast traffic. Network engineers can simply disable it, and I’m sure they have perfectly valid reasons for it. But as an uninformed user, what do you do if a multicast-enabled app doesn’t work? Is the failure the app’s fault, or is the network [...]
Making template/theme changes to a live blog is a bit frustrating. While mucking around with CSS or a theme header, I occasionally render this blog completely illegible or obviously broken, then I scramble to revert my changes, hoping I remember the original code correctly. Editing is a pain without source control or a staging process [...]
This week, I ran one of my ibtool ruby scripts to localize an app. During the process, it generated the following error: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>com.apple.ibtool.errors</key> <array> <dict> <key>description</key> <string>Missing object referenced from oid-keyed mapping. Object ID 538</string> </dict> </array> </dict> </plist> The error sounds [...]
2010-08-18 Update: I added a section explaining how to programmatically grow the touchable area of a UIButton via hitTest. Apple’s iPhone HIG estimates 44×44 pixels is a good hit area for a UI element. If the button isn’t that big, don’t let the user realize that: make the hit area larger than the button. The [...]
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I'm Brian Dunagan. I write Mac user interfaces at Roxio Retrospect. Before that, I wrote Windows COM/MFC and Ruby on Rails at WildPackets. I graduated from MIT back in 2004. All the code posted is under MIT license. Feel free to use it anywhere; hope you find it useful. :)
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