Cole's Huginn

Here are the assets for tonight’s presentation.

• Keynote slides:http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1772972/PaintCode.key
• PaintCode sample:http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1772972/Button_PaintCode.zip
• btnTest sample: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1772972/btnTest.zip

Thanks to everyone who came to last night’s presentation. I’m posting a PDF of my Keynote slides. The screenshots are of CS 5.5, and show how to create a floor of particles, and a twisting energy vortex. Enjoy!

In preparation for a project at work, and a presentation for the local CocoaHeads, I decided to dive in on the new AV Foundation implementation in iOS 5. Most of what I concentrated on was understanding the Rosywriter demo from WWDC. There were a few things I wanted to do very differently from the sample:

1. Apply this to a storyboard, and get rid of that repulsive toolbar
2. Use ARC
3. Remove the pixel color processing, while keeping the CALayer for the display in the view
4. Make the video orientation for landscape, like a normal person would. (Portrait video? Seriously?)

I’m posting the Keynote slides and the Xcode project. Here’s a PDF version for the Keynote-challenged.

Some things to remember about using some of the Apple code in your project:

• Make sure your frameworks have been added to your project
• Remember to add files like fragment and vertex shader files in your Build Phase under Copy Bundle Resources

Adobe construction

Every day, I drive past the new Adobe building by Lehi and the “Point of the Mountain.” With such a mild winter, the timing could not be better. Some of the worst weather I’ve ever seen in Utah is right there. I just had to take some pictures, even though I’m no photographer. It’s nice to see something positive, and a place for jobs here in the US, and I for one appreciate what Adobe is doing here. I’ll take more when it’s done.

Adobe building with mountains

I have Lion, and for some strange reason, my Trash was now annoying me to enter my admin password to do it. Crazy. So I tried some things I searched on, no luck. Finally found a post that worked, and was fairly simple. Somehow, my Trash ownership got switched to root, instead of my user. Here’s how to fix it.

1. Open Terminal
2. Type sudo chown $USER ~/.Trash

That’s it!

I have to start by apologizing for turning off comments for a while. In the last two days, I’ve been slammed with over 800 spamming comments to my articles. Yes, it’s annoying, and at first I was attempting to build up a clever list of spammy words to trim the spam out. Then I realized I was wasting my life putting that much effort into it. I’m was not willing to play the game, even a little bit. I felt better right away.

Think about it. What is the point in expending a bunch of effort, because of something someone else has set up, for their own purposes, where your benefit is nothing? There has to be a reward somewhere, for yourself, or for someone else. Just following the other sheep or performing to the status quo does not come free. You expended energy.

It’s even worse if you expend money and time. Window PC repair comes to mind as a perfect example. The entire anti-virus industry is built on this most base and despicable display of wasting people’s lives. One solution: buy a Mac instead. Since “the switch” almost four years ago, the number of viruses we’ve had to deal with? Zero. That’s not hype, or slick marketing talking, it is quite simply a fact, and it is not up for dispute. And if you are stupid enough to manually launch a virus from a Mac, you are a sheep with the exact problem I’m describing.

If you are in a job where your purpose is to create these games, you are a complete waste of space. If you are clever enough to spam people, you should be clever enough to do something useful with your life. In an odd way, if someone is simply an identity thief, while destructive, it’s not surprising, because there is a point. But a spammer is a bandit that forces you to sit through commercials. They’ve stolen your time. Why is that?

Simple. A business started this chain of nonsense. Instead of casually showing their goods at the side of the road, they create a roadblock bandit, pointing to the gods at the side of the road. And there is a line of 800+ bandits to go through. So much for the myth of the efficiency of unbridled capitalism. Still not convinced, think about health insurance for a minute, and if that’s getting better and more efficient. Greed is not always good, and is often very destructive. The root of spamming is greed. Whatever it takes, the ends justify the means.

I submit that it’s up to all of us as individuals to determine if we allow someone else’s greed to waste our lives. So take a moment to pause throughout your day, and decide, am I doing something important right now, or am I walking with the sheep. If your gut is saying you’re not happy, it’s likely you’re wasting your time. Simply stop and walk away. It’s really okay.

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I had a strange problem. In iTunes, the Other was using up 7GB of my iPad capacity. Not good. Seems like it’s a corruption issue. To get this space back, on your iPad, go to the Settings app->General->Reset->Reset Network Settings.

Do NOT do Reset ALL Settings. I saw some posts on this. It’s overkill and forces you to restore, and waste a lot of time.

So, the iPad will show the big progress bar on the screen, and will reboot. Then sync with iTunes again. That should fix it.