Author Archives: ian

Creating an iPad flip-clock with Core Animation

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

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Calling MSBuild tasks with F#

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

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Modifying the VC runtime to get better heap allocation stack traces

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?

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iPad – The rise of the naturalistic user interface

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?

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Too busy to blog…!?

Live has been getting in the way of blogging.

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Where’s my window?

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

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Why the Peggle mobile experience beats GTA

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?

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Beware of using stack-based COM objects from .NET

COM objects that don’t have the expected lifetime can cause chaos when combined with .NETs garbage collection system.

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A WPF custom control in F#

What F# language and syntax features are required to implement a fundamentally object-oriented WPF custom control?

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Don’t do anything in DllMain… Please

Thinking of adding some code to your DLLs DllMain function? STOP!

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