Comments for iamthewalr.us

Comment on UISearchDisplayController and UILocalizedIndexedCollation by Luke Redpath

Luke Redpath — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:28:16 +0000

I think I originally read this article a few months ago when I started playing around with UILocalizedIndexedCollation - thanks for that, it was quite useful.

I’ve since written the same code a few times so I’ve extracted these modifications into a simple wrapper around UILocalizedIndexedCollation that takes care of this for you.

Hopefully you’ll find it useful too: http://lukeredpath.co.uk/blog/using-uilocalizedindexedcollation-with-searchable-table-views.html

Comment on The User by Adam Brown

Adam Brown — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:03:38 +0000

Upon needing to light the pilot light did you then walk outside to the A/C unit, open it up, look for the pilot light and upon finding nothing resembling the pilot light you lit before call the service number on the A/C unit and proceed to complain that this new heater design was messed up and broken?

That's more like what the RWW commenters did.

Comment on The User by Colin Barrett

Colin Barrett — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:13:25 +0000

Phil: That’s not a particularly helpful or constructive comment. Could you please reply with an explanation?

Comment on The User by Phil Nelson

Phil Nelson — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:47:42 +0000

Calling a metaphoul on that gas heater analogy.

Comment on The User by Colin Barrett

Colin Barrett — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:13:32 +0000

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying.

Here's an example from real life: I know nothing about gas heaters. Literally, nothing. I was able to light a pilot light on a gas heater once -- and that was largely through trial and error, plus a healthy dose of Youtube and WikiHow. A couple weeks ago, the heater at a friend's place wasn't working. I, of course, leapt into action. Twenty minutes later I still had not lit the heater. By the end there were three of us all peering into it, trying to figure it out. Eventually we just gave up and put on sweaters.

Am I stupid? No. I just don't know shit about heaters. Are the RWW commenters stupid? No. They just don't know shit about how the internet works.

Comment on The User by Rob

Rob — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:44:15 +0000

Are you saying the people who commented on that ReadWriteWeb article aren't idiots?

Because I'd have to disagree with you.

Comment on Annus Mirabilis by Rob

Rob — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:43:18 +0000

I remember 8 years ago buying this amazing little gadget Apple had just announced and everyone I showed it to had never heard of it. Oh how things change!

Comment on Annus Mirabilis by Colin Barrett

Colin Barrett — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:24:09 +0000

@Bergamot: Well, not quite. We knew Leopard was an utter clusterfuck even at this point in 2007 — or at least anyone with seed access did. The WWDC06 build and subsequent seeds were pretty awful. The biggest source of at least developer malaise at this point is the App Store. I’d argue that’s different from previous problems we’ve seen — a bad policy rather than a bad implementation.

Comment on Annus Mirabilis by Alan Hogan

Alan Hogan — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:19:28 +0000

I highly doubt that Apple’s designers were paid to do nothing for the entire Snow Leopard cycle

Coming up with the iPhone and iPad UIs don't count?

we haven’t seen anything from the iLife team yet.

I thought I saw photos and the like on the iPad.

Comment on Annus Mirabilis by Bergamot

Bergamot — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:58:37 +0000

The thing is, you could have said the exact same thing at this point in 2007: Intel transition going smoothly, iPhone looked amazing, Leopard on the horizon.

And you would have been right then too.

When a company is on the way up, every year can be the best year they've ever had.