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Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth
11/13/2007I enjoyed this video. It’s worth watching all the way through. Kids are taught clustering, triangles, magic sevens, and other intriguing concepts. These are very interesting ways to look at math. However, they completely lack regular core math skills because … Continue reading →
How many Elliot Lee’s are there?
6/17/2004My rank in Google for the search Elliot Lee is dismally low. At least I’m second for ellliotlee, although I’m sure nobody ever searches for that. Elliot Lee, on the other hand, appears to be a fairly common name. Lee … Continue reading →
Dealing with Clients
6/9/2004An interesting discussion here. In my contract I have: 50% deposit is to be paid before beginning the work and the balance upon completion or within 30 days of start date, whichever comes first. You, the Client, agree to supply … Continue reading →
True Stories
8/9/2002When I remarked that this Friday is the longest day of the year, our receptionist looked puzzled and asked, “You mean it’s longer than 24 hours?” One of my Dad’s retired friends spends nine months a year in Wisconsin and … Continue reading →
Universal CSS Stylesheet
12/12/2005It would be cool if there were a basic general CSS stylesheet that I could start with when creating a new web document. I’ve realized that many of the basic sites I create have the same general styles. You need … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: iphone
AV Foundation on iPhone 2.0
There are still thousands of people using iPhone OS 2.0. I met one of them last night. The AV Foundation framework is only supported in iPhone OS 2.1 or higher. When my app is run on iPhone 2.0, I want … Continue reading
iPhone App Development Classes
My latest iPhone/iPod touch app, Whiteboard Lite, is now available in the iTunes App Store. This semester, I’m a Lab Assistant (also sometimes called a Teaching Assistant or TA) for the new ITP 499 iPhone App Development class here at … Continue reading
Localizable.strings Not Working
The iPhone offers good localization support the same way Mac OS X does. For strings, developers use a file called “Localizable.strings”. It’s a bit tricky, though. The syntax of the file is strict; any small error will cause it to … Continue reading
End of 2008
Well, I haven’t blogged in a long time, and now school’s about to start again, so I’d better get to it. Another year has come and gone, and I must say that it was a very eventful one. Far too … Continue reading
Video Review of Brain Tuner
I randomly decided to search for Brain Tuner iPhone on Google to see who might be talking about my app, and I found that someone has done a good video review! So if you have a few minutes, watch it:
iPhone Dev Error: Preflighting Application
There are a lot of potential causes of this problem. Make sure you have the certificate with its private key and the provisioning profile, and that they’re set in Xcode. But if you’ve tried everything else, then make sure you’ve … Continue reading
Still Not Enough Wiis
Today I discovered that the Nintendo Wii is definitively the best-selling game console of this generation, far outselling the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. As of June 30, 2008, over 29.62 million Wii systems have been sold. That’s huge – … Continue reading
Apple Rocks! iPhone 2.0 a welcome upgrade
I didn’t quite realize until now how great the 2.0 upgrade will be for Original iPhones. It’s like getting a new device… for free. (Of course, you could always jailbreak your iPhone and get lots of Apps that way… but … Continue reading
iPhone 3G is the Second Generation
I’m the proud owner of an Apple iPhone 4 GB. I’m very happy with my decision. I was really tired of my old Nokia, and the iPhone suits me perfectly. I love everything about it, and I can type very … Continue reading