I got an idea. I will try a half marathon sometime in September/october. I wanted to start running a long time ago but I didn’t have a good reason to do it reguraly. And without a good reason I would just quit after a week or two. So far so good. I did a couple of 30 minuters the last two weeks and two 45 runs today and yesterday. I hope this beautiful english weather won’t stop me and I will be able to run reguraly. It is not a marathon training yet. I guess I’m just warming up and want to see if I like it or not. Hopefully I do :)
Lets see if we can make something out of this sentence. Motivating…isn’t it?
Tutorial: Cool UIScrollView Effects
While I was working on the “Cardflow” interface mode for CardSwitcher I had to work out get custom page widths and custom effects as you scroll through the cards, this is actually quite simple but I haven’t seen many posts on customising a UIScrollView. Most of the tips are spread across lots of different stackoverflow questions.
Problems with custom scrollview’s
To start with (actually while I was working on the first version of CardSwitcher) I looked into iCarousel, which has quite a lot of cool effects and a tableView style data source and delegate protocols. However as the first version of CardSwitcher was actually just a standard WebOS, or Safari tab’s style, linear layout that highlighted a problem with iCarousel (which joehewitt also noticed with iScroll), caused by the fact it doesn’t customize a UIScrollView but instead uses UIGestureRecognizers to do the scrolling itself (like UIScrollView itself).
However because of this the scrolling just feel wrong, the physics are off by a little bit. The bounce as you scroll of the edge, flicking and then how many pages it scrolls past before stopping and the paging effect all just feels off slightly.
Source: iky1e
Finally beta!
I didn’t mention this before, but two of my highly talented friends joined me to finish my iPhone project. Michael was helping me since the day one and Katie will start working on graphics pretty soon. Yesterday I’ve made a beta copy of the app so they can test it on their devices. I’m sure I will get a lot if constructive criticism from them and I also hope that it will not crash too many times :) This is all super exciting for me and I hope the project will turn out to be a success. And if not… Then at least I will have fun with people I like :)
Source: kucycling
Song of the week
Android vs iOS from a different perspective
Last week I was arguing with my friend, who is a huge Apple fanboy, which system is better. Well.. I didn’t say that I like apple or google’s stuff better but he basically trashed Android. So I had to defend it. In my opinion there are good and bad things about both system and it will take a lot of work for both companies to make them better. And I hate when people are full of shit and trash other work simply because they like something else better.
Allright.. so here is one huge field where Android is winning. OPENNESS.
What those guys did with the system is truly amazing. And I dont care if people will say that it is a bit too much and it will confuse normal users instead of being helpful. It is just a matter of taste. The point is that Android lets people INNOVATE. The guy who wrote the code should get a prize. Not in technology but in art. And probably there are tons of other people like hin (XDA developers) who are customising Android, making new rom and innovate.
Can you do that with iOS? NO. Can you jailbreak your phone? Yes. But then Apple will get really angry at you and they wont fix your phone if something happens. And what about Android??…. you can do almost whatever you want with your phone. I bricked mine and they repaired it without asking.
Anyway…. Just check out the video above. You will be impressed…..
Here is a link to their web site: http://www.tsfui.com/
Some demo code
For the last couple of months Im working on my dissertation- an iOS app. There are lots of new things that I’ve learned but since I’m overwhelmed with work, I didn’t have the time to update my github account to share something.
Probably after January I will have more time to upload more bits of iOS code or maybe the whole dissertation… It think that creating a few small tutorials would be a good idea as well.
For now check out my github account. The code shows how to to set up a project, how to react on touch, play sounds and display pictures from a static file.
https://github.com/michalweb/Creepy-Faces
Enjoy.
Source: thisistheverge
