Category Archives: Technology

October 5, 2012
10:22 pm
by: Cole

iOS Tutorial: Editing TableViews

This tutorial picks up where our last tutorial on TableView Basics left off. Now that we have one, it’s time to start editing, deleting and moving things around. Again, we’ll have our starter project and our completed project downloads. For additional reading, you can … Continue reading →

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September 28, 2012
8:57 pm
by: Cole

iOS Tutorial: Basics of Table Views and Prototype Cells in Storyboards

In this tutorial, we’ll go over the basics of populating tableviews with data, and using the prototype cells introduced in iOS 5. Many of the samples online have very complicated navigation controller code. Instead, we want to just do the … Continue reading →

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September 12, 2012
10:03 pm
by: Cole

iOS Tutorial: Combining Delegation, Storyboards, Popovers and Data

In this tutorial, we’ll show how to pass data from a view controller to a popover, and have data passed passed back from a button click, as well as dismissing the popover. The benefit is that it allows you to … Continue reading →

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July 24, 2012
8:48 pm
by: Cole

Illustrator CS6 and HTML5: Creating Dynamic Vector Web Content (SVG)

I thought I would post a download link for my user group presentation on dynamic SVGs. In the download, I’ve included source code, Illustrator files, and presentation slides. I’ll have to post an extensive description of what is going on … Continue reading →

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June 18, 2012
4:42 pm
by: Cole

Product Review: CSS Hat – Generating CSS3 from Photoshop layers

CSS Hat is a Photoshop plugin that does something wonderful. It takes effects from a layer, and converts them to CSS3. If you are a Photoshop person, who never does web, why would you care? Because you probably have to … Continue reading →

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May 10, 2012
5:21 pm
by: Cole

Product Review: PaintCode by PixelCut

I purchased a copy of PaintCode from the Mac Store in March, and have used it in a real production environment. Namely, make resolution-independent images quickly, vector-based, so they look crisp on both Retina and non-retina displays. PaintCode appeared to … Continue reading →

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May 10, 2012
4:31 pm
by: Cole

CocoaHeads Presentation: PaintCode Resources

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  

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March 23, 2012
2:13 am
by: Cole

Particle Systems in Adobe After Effects

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!

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March 8, 2012
8:14 pm
by: Cole

AV Foundation in iOS 5 – Video Capture, Save, Display

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 … Continue reading →

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January 30, 2012
2:27 am
by: Cole

Adobe Construction in Utah

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 … Continue reading →

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