(Jan 11, 2012) Link

(Jan 10, 2012) Photo

(Jan 7, 2012) Link

Nice observation.

Speaking of the Notification Center, have you seen it on the iPad? Haha. It looks horrendous.

Divide the notifications in their own little “widgets”. Utilize the available space for God’s sake. The table/list view is evidently not tailored for the iPad.

I don’t understand why they didn’t make it more like the Dashboard on Lion. It is after all, analogous to a dashboard, in which they give notifications too. Hell, it should’ve been called Dashboard. This creates consistency between Apple devices. Although it should be worth noting that I don’t want the Notification Center to be more than a notification center.

(Jan 3, 2012) C data types

I need to create a post with tabular data to test posts with tables. Sooo, I’m here to present the various C data types, brought to you by Wikipedia:

Type	Explanation	Possible values^*
`char`	Smallest addressable unit of the machine that can contain basic character set. It is an integer type. Actual type can be either signed or unsigned depending on implementation.	0 to 255
`short int`	short signed integer type. At least 16 bits in size.	0 to 65,535
`int`	Basic signed integer type. At least 16 bits in size.	0 to 4,294,967,295
`long int`	long signed integer type. At least 32 bits in size	0 to 4,294,967,295
`long long`	long long signed integer type. At least 64 bits in size. Specified only in C99 version of the standard.	0 to 18,446,744,073,709,551,615
`float`	Single precision floating-point type.
`double`	Double precision floating-point type.
`long double`	Extended precision floating-point type.

* Possible unsigned values.

(Dec 27, 2011) Favorite Xcode Key Bindings

⌘↑ Move to Beginning of Document
⌘↓ Move to End of Document
⌘← Move to Left End of Line
⌘→ Move to Right End of Line

⌥↑ Move Paragraph Backward
⌥↓ Move Paragraph Forward
⌥← Move Word Left
⌥→ Move Word Right

⌃← Move Subword Backward
⌃→ Move Subword Forward

Subwords are the words within a camel case compound. A good example is the compound GarageBand. If you want to move between “Garage” and “Band”, use the two key bindings above.

↑ Move Up
↓ Move Down
← Move Left
→ Move Right

Holding down the shift button enables you to extend the current selection. As a plus, these key bindings also work on most Cocoa apps. Learn once, apply almost anywhere.

(Dec 21, 2011) TODO

Marquee text on hover for lengthy song info on audio posts
Hide the Flash Player on audio posts if Flash isn’t supported on the user’s browser
Find different colors for headers for a better sense of heirarchy
Make posts with pictures still look tolerable when JS is disabled
Fix text posts when CSS is disabled
Implement photoset posts
Implement day pages and tag pages
Black containers for small images are still spotty
Truncate list items on the navigation if it overflows
Create a notification bar when users are using unsupported browsers
Minimal Vimeo player
Make video posts fluid
Style tables appropriately
Style kbds appropriately

I would be happy to release this theme after I complete the above tasks. Next week is my winter break…

BTW: This is a live list. That means some list items will be crossed out upon completion and more will be added if something comes up. That’s why I didn’t include a release date.

(Nov 25, 2011) Link

Sinatra →

Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort.

I hate Ruby, but this web framework is awesome. I gave up on Rails. That’s how I ended up with Sinatra.