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Re: Building Your First App: The List Container

dreamnotoftoday — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:55:11 -0000

Right on - got the complete file shown at the bottom and installed some improved syntax highlighting to make the code examples look a lot better.

Re: Building Your First App: The List Container

dreamnotoftoday — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:25:22 -0000

Hrm... That is definitely not right. I need to find better code
highlighting.

Will fix this afternoon.

Re: Building Your First App: The List Container

jyoseph — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:22:46 -0000

Thanks again for your great instruction! I have a couple of questions if you don't mind.

Can you show the complete file? I wasn't quite sure if each section you noted should be appended to the main control group or if you were building on each control, meaning the final code you pasted is the complete bit of code.

The last bit you posted looks like it didn't come through properly. Meaning I had to view the html source to see the code. Not sure if that was intended or not.

Again, thanks. Your tuts are by far the best step by step instruction out there.

Re: Building Your First App: Finishing The Graphics

jyoseph — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:13:59 -0000

Cool, can't wait for that. I'm surprised by how straight forward it is (thanks to your tuts, that is).

For code highlighting I've always used http://alexgorbatchev.com/wiki/SyntaxHighlighter Although it may be a bit heavy.

Re: Building Your First App: Finishing The Graphics

dreamnotoftoday — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:36:45 -0000

Thanks Joe.

Trying to find a better code highlighter, but not having much luck. Next installment is a chunky one involving the list container and will be published Saturday morning.

Re: Building Your First App: Finishing The Graphics

jyoseph — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:37:08 -0000

Great instructions!

I'm just catching up, got steps 1-5 done today. Really looking forward to the next post. Hopefully soon, keep 'em coming!

Re: 4 Emerging Trends of the Real-Time Web

jyoseph — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:26:39 -0000

http://www.woopra.com/ is also a great real time analytics option.

Re: Top 10 iPhone Apps as Judged by Mashable Readers

jyoseph — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:16:39 -0000

The fact that iPity isn't on this list means this is clearly a botched election.

Re: Sync program preferences and settings with DropBox | jyoseph.com

jyoseph — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:35:03 -0000

Weird!

The only thing I'm doing is that terminal command:

ln -s ~/Dropbox/Library/Preferences/file.you.want.to.sync.plist ~/Library/Preferences/file.you.want.to.sync.plist

Make sure you delete/move that file first of course. What file in particular are you trying to sync? I've found that if the symbolic link isn't pointing to an actual file (i.e. - you didn't move the file to the dropbox location yet) then the program will overwrite your symbolic file.

Re: Sync program preferences and settings with DropBox | jyoseph.com

jyoseph — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:57:28 -0000

Hey good catch. I forgot to mention the keychain. I updated the entry (see the bottom) but in a nutshell, Transmit keeps the passwords in a keychain. You need to also sync that keychain for it to work properly. Let me know if you have any troubles with this.

Re: 20+ Mac Apps to Increase Your Productivity

WordSkill — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:41:23 -0000

"Even better, it syncs seamlessly with Things on your Mac via Wi-Fi"

Think about what they're actually saying there: every morning, before you rush out to work, you have to remember to manually sync Things on your iPhone while you are still within Wi-Fi range of your computer. If you forget or are too busy, Things on your iPhone will be out of sync all day.

Similar desktop+iPhone products have automatic online syncing which keeps both your iPhone and your computer in sync via the cloud i.e. their own service or a third-party service such as MobileMe or any other WebDAV server. This is, by far, a better solution because it removes a major point of failure and, in GTD terms, gives you a system you can trust. Your task management app should not be giving your extra tasks to remember!

Cultured Code rushed the release of Things because they had booked a booth for the January 2009 Macworld and wanted to use it for their official launch. They also rushed users into making a purchase by offering a time-limited discount. At that time, many users were alarmed because they knew that, without online syncing, Things was not going to be a workable solution for them. The owner of CC made a promise that online syncing was on the way and would be delivered within the first quarter of 2009 and many paid their money on that basis.

By Summer, the failure to deliver online syncing led to a lot of bad feeling on the CC support forums. Some users were happy to work around it, some felt that they had been duped into buying a product that was of no practical use to them. The issue came to dominate their forums and was much exacerbated by the curious lack of any response, any response at all, from CC, apart from locking threads to get them off the front page.

Worried that potential customers might be put off by massive number of complaints on the forum, CC sneakily removed all links to it from their website. The only indication of user response to their product were the heavily-edited comments on their blog posts, with CC removing anything that was not a glowing tribute. Some people, however, still managed to stumble across the forums via Google, so, finally, CC took down the entire forum. They recently put back up a heavily edited version with all complaints removed and anything critical of the product or the lack of support is immediately removed.

So, as we are about to enter the final quarter of the year, a vital feature has still not been delivered, despite their competitors all having it BEFORE they started charging, and CC have shown themselves to be contemptuous of their customers. Yes, Things is pretty and, yes, it works well for people who have the time and the inclination to work around the problems, or who don't have an iPhone and use it merely as a desktop app, but think long and hard before getting involved with people who are dishonest enough to bury legitimate complaints rather than address them or fix the problems.

It is also pretty damning that none of Apple-focused blogs had the guts to report on something as important and newsworthy as the deletion of an entire support forum. Aren't these blogs meant to be looking out for our interests as consumers?

Re: 20+ Mac Apps to Increase Your Productivity

jyoseph — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:02:27 -0000

Title says 20+ so i think you're good w/ more than 20 ;-)

Re: 20+ Mac Apps to Increase Your Productivity

jyoseph — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:13:41 -0000

Question, do you happen to know if Things, the desktop and iPhone app sync together?

EDIT: Sorry I asked a bit prematurely, from their site: "We've put the whole application in your pocket. Even better, it syncs seamlessly with Things on your Mac via Wi-Fi. "

Re: 20+ Mac Apps to Increase Your Productivity

jyoseph — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:03:15 -0000

Freaking great roundup. Bookmarking this for sure. Stellar job.

Re: PRIVACY: Facebook Is One of America’s Most Trusted Companies

twitter-15878461 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:33:24 -0000

I think that's mostly irrelevant since they conclude that FB is among the most trusted companies rather than concluding that it is among the most trustworthy. That is a significant difference. However, if, like you did, others don't notice that difference, then they might as well have stated a conclusion about trustworthiness.

Re: PRIVACY: Facebook Is One of America’s Most Trusted Companies

Heather — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:44:03 -0000

I agree with you.

Personally, I find Facebook the LEAST trustworthy social networking site when it comes to personal privacy. The default settings allow friends of friends to see my photos, which is exactly why I do not post photos. I know that I can change privacy settings, but I find that confusing. I had blocked sharing of certain things, only to find out that certain applications were still allowed to use them. Maybe I'm just too old for this stuff, heh.

Re: PRIVACY: Facebook Is One of America’s Most Trusted Companies

jyoseph — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:38:00 -0000

I'm skeptical.

1. I'd like to know more about this two-stage survey.
2. Were the people taking the survey compensated?
3. How was the survey set up (the format)?
4. I'd also like to know who all was involved in the "expert panel".
5. Lastly and most importantly, what were the "leading consumer brands"? Sure Facebook is more trusted than PirateBay. So who were the companies being stacked up?

I'm bothered when I see vague statistics thrown out there and people just blindly believe. They don't ask questions. I know this isn't a big deal here, but it happens everywhere. In politics, on the job, etc etc.

Just because TRUSTe says it's so, doesn't make it so. Ask the 300 million (or whatever the number of users is up to now) users and not 6,000 unknown folks.

Re: Nomee: Social Aggregation on Adobe Air

naser — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:40:24 -0000

So, basically this doesn't make use of the social networking APIs and instead just tries to integrate contacts/friends into its own service? That doesn't sound good :( ...I even reinstalled adobe air just to try this out.

Re: Nomee: Social Aggregation on Adobe Air

jyoseph — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:26:00 -0000

Initially I was very excited about this until I found that you have to sort of refriend everyone. That totally defeats the purpose. So although this is a good looking app and a job well done so far, it is missing a really key piece of functionality that I believe will prevent it from being widely adopted.

I believe SocialThing was so successful because they got this right. You give SocialThing your credentials for flickr and it knows and shows all of your flickr friends updates. Same for twitter, facebook, etc.

Re: Rule No. 1: Hide the iPhone from Ballmer at the Microsoft meeting

jyoseph — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:12:33 -0000

"Of course, Ballmer might do better in the future by making sure that the employee has good reason to pick a Windows-branded phone over competing devices"

+1

Re: Ping.fm / Blog / What does it all mean?

jyoseph — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:53:27 -0000

Keep your head up guys, stuff like this happens, we'll keep pinging away!

Re: A Letter from the King of Winghaven

jyoseph — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:17:28 -0000

Check out my test comment, whooo!

Re: How to update iPhone from 2.2.1 to 3.0 beta 3

jyoseph — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:54:48 -0000

test

Re: James Stark - Star Clipper Gallery

jyoseph — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:11:23 -0000

Test

Re: 9

jyoseph — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:39:59 -0000

I appreciate that Don!

I can use people checking in to make sure I'm doing the right thing. Part of the reason why I set the site up. It's like, you can always do a few more reps if you know someone is checking on your progress. Or even better yet if someone is in the room right there working out along side you. You can feed off each others drive.

6 month program? Holy cow!! I often wonder what I'm going to do after the 90 days. I guess start all over again and just ramp it up! :-)

Love the quote, I'm actually going to print that out and put it on the wall real big. I think I'll do that now!