Today we launched our new website for Buzzam. Please sign up for our mailing list! http://buzz.am   If you don’t already know what Buzzam is, that page has a great explanation and some great demo videos. Also today, Greg Starling (a co-founder of Buzzam), wrote a great post on 10 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read and [...]

Overview: Yesterday I created a proof of concept site that converts text to a flow chart. See it at http://flomojo.com Going Postal Yesterday I went at the post office because I needed one stamp.  20 minutes later I walked out with $10 worth of stamps. Their machine was out.  Over a dozen people were in [...]

Migrating a project from V2 to V3 LLBLGen project was a huge pain. Since I work in 30+ projects that use V2, I decided to write out all the not-so-obvious steps required. The Real Guide Half the battle is just finding these links below, so consider yourself a leprechaun.  They are a good reference if [...]

Quick post just to jot down some numbers… My latest project has me doing A LOT of string manipulation which is a huge pain in objective-c.  To top it off, I’d really like this part of my code to be dynamic so the logic could be updated without a full-on new version through the 5-7 [...]

Migrating the core data schema on an iOS app is like a monster in a cave.  When I walk by, the monster growls and I back off. Well not today.  Today I learned to do a simple migration in an existing core data app and I confirmed what so many others had said. It’s strangely [...]

I’ve been really digging into using JavaScript with Photoshop in the last few months.  Today I made a wonderful, mysterious discovery. Discovering the Photoshop Scripting UI Until now, the only user interaction I’ve been able to add to my scripts is popping up a JavaScript alert, confirm, or prompt or showing a ‘select a file’ [...]

My latest posted discussed showing a UI that had textareas, buttons, and more so users could interact with your Photoshop script. But now I discovered another fun trick – reading and writing text files from JavaScript Photoshop scripts. Reading is Fun Not much to it – you read line by line: 1234567var b = new [...]

Spoiler alert: I just released a new Objective-c/Cocoa to Twitter open-source library called CocoaBird. Here’s the story… I’ve got a new project and one of the requirements is strong integration with social media such as Twitter.  After bouncing around a few objective-c to twitter APIs, I just wasn’t satisfied.  Some of the older ones never [...]

Every time I make an iOS app, I shy away from Core Data and end up storing data in a plist or sqlite.  It’s a senseless fear, but here’s why I avoid it. CoreData barfs all over your AppDelegate It’s somewhat difficult to add CoreData to an existing app The code for data access is [...]

FYI: I’ve decided to list my projects/apps on Facebook under BendyTree instead of this blog. I’m giving it a shot, anyways. I still plan on blogging here since there doesn’t seem to be a great way to blog through Facebook. I’m sure this is a life changing event for everyone!