Best Hikes in Every State of the USA
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How to build a static website with Jekyll, AWS S3 CLI, and CloudFlare
We use Jekyll, AWS S3, and CloudFlare to create a personal blog or hobby site.
.NET MAUI Label Adjusts Font Size to Fit Width
.NET MAUI Label controls do not have the capability to adjust their font size to accommodate the width of the content. In Xamarin.Forms, you had to use a vie...
How to Physically Destroy Compact Flash Cards
This is the simplest and quickest way I found to permanently, physically destroy compact flash cards. It will work for pretty much any external flash card.
Spam: You seem like my type
Do you read your spam? Maybe you just delete it. Maybe you ignore it.
Xamarin.Forms XAML Label Adjusts Font Size to Fit Width of Content
Xamarin.Forms Label controls do not have the capability to adjust their font size to accomodate the width of the content. You have to use a view renderer in ...
Linking and voting
What if blogging and linking were more significant than voting?
UIKit Dynamics Tutorial with Xamarin.iOS
**This article was adapted from UIKit Dynamics Tutorial, Colin Eberhardt, by permission of the publisher, Ray Wenderlich.
Python: Compute and Prettily Display Difference Between Two Dates
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Xib-Free iOS App with C# - Part 4 - iAd
This is Part 4 of our series building a xib-free iOS app with C#.
Xib-Free iOS App with C# - Part 3 - Timers
This is Part 3 of our series building a xib-free iOS app with C#.
Xib-Free iOS App with C# - Part 2 - Clock
This is Part 2 of our series building a xib-free iOS app with C#.
Convert Trunk Notes To Plain Markdown
This shell script converts one or more Trunk Notes files to plain markdown. It removes the first 7 lines and touches the modification date to match the Times...
Let’s Build a Xib-Free iOS App with C#
Why would I want to build a xib-free iOS app with C#?
Prepare Your iPhone for Sale
You just bought that shiny new iPhone 5 and told your spouse that you can sell your old iPhone to pay for the new one. I won’t get into the middle of a spous...
DataLocker review: great free app for encrypting your Dropbox files
DataLocker is a free app from AppSense that encrypts files and then lets you share them with Windows, Mac, iPhone and iPad via Dropbox. This is very useful i...
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Blaming Paypal, Drugstore.com cannot ship an item missing from an order without a credit card.
Beginning Storyboards in iOS 5 Part 1 with MonoTouch
Storyboarding is an exciting new feature in iOS 5 that will save you a lot of time building user interfaces for your apps.
STOP SOPA
We sometimes complain about government limitations on our freedom. We sometimes complain about misuse at the hands of big corporations.
Is this the end for Python Math?
What’s the scariest communication a developer can receive from Apple?
iOS 5 Caches Directory
This is a potentially very serious usability problem with iOS 5. Read Marco Arment’s blog about the change in how iOS 5 handles the Caches directory.
Best iPhone 4S Commentary
In commenting on the iPhone 4S launch, John Gruber of Daring Fireball and Horace Dediu of Asymco hit the proverbial nail on the head.
We Can’t Stand the Truth
We can’t stand the truth and Ron Schiller was fired from NPR because of it. He said, “Frankly, it is very clear that we would be better off in the long run w...
I’m From Microsoft and I’m Here to Help You
The 5-year old Dell died with a struggle. It was getting “thermal events” up until the end. We tore it open. The inside was mercifully clean of dust. We had ...
Ina Ruwa Updates: Premium Edition and iOS 4
Ina Ruwa Free Weather v1.2 is now in the app store. It has been upgraded to support fast app switching when using iOS 4. Advertising comes from Apple’s iAd n...
Ina Ruwa for iOS 4 is Coming Soon
Because of my concern for the viability of MonoTouch for App Store apps, I’ve rewritten Ina Ruwa in Objective-C. That’s why there’s been no updates for so lo...
“Steal This Ebook”
Joe Konrath is running an experiment concerning ebook piracy. Read “Steal This Ebook” on his blog.
Is This the End for MonoTouch?
Many bits have been spilled on the alleged changes to section 3.3.1 of Apple’s iPhone developer agreement. John Gruber broke the story on Daring Fireball. Hu...
An American Parable
A wealthy businessman planned a long vacation to travel around the world. He entrusted some of his affairs to three of his employees. To one, he gave $50,000...
Ina Ruwa is in the iPhone App Store
My very first published iPhone/iPod Touch app is now available in the app store: Ina Ruwa Weather.
App Store Pre-Submission Checklist
I made this app store pre-submission checklist to improve the odds of my apps being accepted by Apple.
Multi-Tasking Fuss
What’s all the fuss about multi-tasking on the iPhone and iPad?
MonoTouch Binding for AdMob
Update 10/11/09: Fixed code display. Update 01/05/2010: Download a MonoDevelop project sample at http://www.sabonrai.com/downloads/MT_SampleAdMob.zip. This i...
MonoTouch Goes Live
Belated congratulations to the MonoTouch team: MonoTouch went live last week with version 1.0 while I was away from my MacBook on work-related travel. I didn...
MonoTouch Sample: Core Graphics and UIImageView
I was having a lot of trouble figuring out various aspects of Core Graphics, so I wrote this simple program to try out some things. Included in this are draw...
MonoTouch Sample Code: Synchronous Web Request
Today we have another sample MonoTouch program. This little program performs a synchronous web request. Though we’re using a UIWebView to display the results...
MonoTouch Sample Code: UITableView
I’m just going to come right out and say it: I hate Objective-C. In Introduction to The Objective-C 2.0 Programming Language, Apple writes:
MPG Game
Tony Borroz reports on Wired,
VMWare Fusion and Windows 7
While struggling with how to transition to a new Mac while using Microsoft Money, I’ve been alternating between using my old Windows Vista machine directly o...
Quicken Financial Life for Mac
Dual-booting Mac OS X and Windows 7 was not working very well for me to use Microsoft Money. I typically use Excel along with Money to plan which bills to pa...
What I miss most from Windows on a Mac
Beyond Compare: I have yet to find a better file/folder sync and poor man’s backup solution on Windows and nothing equivalent on Mac. Truly, it is beyond com...
Boot Camp and Windows 7
If you want to try the Windows 7 Beta with Mac Boot Camp, go for it. The article, Using Boot Camp to install Windows 7 on your Mac: The Complete Walkthrough,...
MacBook: False Start
Mac OS X takes a little getting used to for a Windows user, but I’m warming up to it. Having Unix again after all those years of Windows and DOS command prom...
Re-ordered the Macbook
I ordered the Macbook from a place that didn’t have them in stock and who would have ordered it from Apple. Unfortunately, Apple has just discontinued the no...
Ordered a Macbook
I’ve built several Windows Mobile apps and one iPhone web app with the WebApp.net framework. I was in the process of learning GWT because it uses Java plus i...