Author Archives: ian

Creating an iPad flip-clock with Core Animation

By ian | Published: April 10, 2010

Using Core Animation to create flip-card number animations on the iPad and iPhone

Posted in Graphics, Mac, iPhone | Tagged animation, Graphics, iPad, iPhone | 13 Comments

Calling MSBuild tasks with F#

By ian | Published: March 31, 2010

It’s easy to call MSBuild tasks directly from F#. Although possibly unnecessary.

Posted in .NET, F#, Software Development, Visual Studio | Tagged F#, msbuild, Visual Studio | 2 Comments

Modifying the VC runtime to get better heap allocation stack traces

By ian | Published: March 17, 2010

Heap allocation stack traces are useless when using certain versions of the MSVC runtime. Is it possible to modify and rebuild MSVCR80 to avoid this?

Posted in Debugging, Software Development, WinDbg, Windows | Tagged c++, Debugging, heap, WinDbg | Leave a comment

iPad – The rise of the naturalistic user interface

By ian | Published: March 11, 2010

Apple’s iPad applications make use of real-world objects in their user interfaces: books, newspapers, address books. What is it about the iPad that makes it a good platform for this kind of UI?

Posted in Graphics, Usability, iPhone | Tagged GUI, iPad, iPhone, Usability | 3 Comments

Too busy to blog…!?

By ian | Published: March 5, 2010

Live has been getting in the way of blogging.

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Where’s my window?

By ian | Published: January 31, 2010

Where’s my window gone? I’m sure I left it around here somewhere…

Posted in Windows | Tagged c++, hidden, invisible, missing, screen, win32, Windows | 2 Comments

Why the Peggle mobile experience beats GTA

By ian | Published: January 26, 2010

Peggle and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. Two fantastic and very different iPhone games, but how is your enjoyment of them affected by the platform on which they run?