Monthly Archives: January 2009

More requirements

Posted on January 29, 2009 by Paul Tomblin

Some more utterly blue-sky long term goals for the app. Some of them depend entirely on what the phone can do, and I don’t know if it can or not yet. Attach a photo from the library as an icon … Continue reading →

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On browsers, proxies, and JavaScript

Posted on January 29, 2009 by Paul Tomblin

My employer forces me to use Windows XP and Internet Explorer on my desktop at work. This is more than just “our internal apps are only supported on IE”, they’ve somehow locked things down. I tried to install Google Chrome, … Continue reading →

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Not a bad day, over all

Posted on January 28, 2009 by Paul Tomblin

Thanks to the reading I’ve been doing, and the source code that fellow pilot-geek Kris Johnson sent me, I think I’m starting to get my head around Objective C, if not the iPhone development environment. I answered my first Objective … Continue reading →

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Airplane Prop + CMOS Rolling Shutter = WTF

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Paul Tomblin

Check out this utterly awesome picture taken of a Yak aerobatic trainer taken with a iPhone: Airplane Prop + CMOS Rolling Shutter = WTF on Flickr – Photo Sharing!. The combination of the slow scan speed of the camera and … Continue reading →

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iPhone Logbook App requirements

Posted on January 24, 2009 by Paul Tomblin

Ok, so what do I want from an iPhone App? How about I list the requirements as I see them, and order them from highest to lowest? I have an idea that I can then choose a bunch at the … Continue reading →

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