Technology
iPhone SDK 4.0 Beta – iPod Touch Problems
So the end of our semester is quickly approaching and I want to keep developing our Multimodal Rummy game. So like any good Apple fanboy I went out and picked up an 8GB iPod Touch 3rd gen. to do development with… Well it seems Apple wants you to spend the extra $100 on the bigger model because the 8GB is unofficially unsupported. Thanks Apple, now I get to pay BestBuy a restocking fee.
Read MoreEmbedding Video in an iPad Application
Ran into a problem embedding video into our Multimodal Rummy application this weekend… seems things have changed with SDK 3.2. Honestly, once I figured out what I was doing wrong it was a very simple process. With the iPad you need to use MPMoviePlayerViewController instead of MPMoviePlayerController. However, our Multimodal Rummy application uses a landscape layout for most of the views, in particular the view that provides the link to the tutorial video. Since the MPMoviePlayer traditionally displays the content in portrait layout I had to create a simple MPMoviePlayerViewController subclass that contained the shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation method...
Read MoreWhere’d the blog go?
Wow, last semester kicked by butt; I’m glad it’s over! It’s sad to think that I didn’t write a blog post all semester. I’d recommend you add my Flickr photostream to your rss reader instead of my blog feed , at least I always post to Flickr and you’d know I was still alive. I put together a collection of my favorite images from my first year of photography over on my Flickr site. It’s crazy to think I’ve only been doing this for a little over a year, but it has become one of my favorite things to do; I just need more time to do it. Brandon and I went to a Joe McNally lighting seminar in Houston; it was awsome! I’ve...
Read Morecodygreen.com has a new home
Well things on this site have been pretty dormant the past month. I was swamped with Finals at the beginning of August then Megan and I went to Colorado for a few days and then down to San Antonio. I have a lot of pictures I need to upload to Flickr but very little time to do it. The problem with taking two weeks of vacation is that you’re swamped when you get back. I’ve heard several complaints that the front page for codygreen.com takes a long time to load. While the web site is image heavy the pages are optimized as much as they can be. The problem was largely due to the service provider, Lunar Pages, which took forever to pull content off their...
Read MoreFourth of July
Yesterday, Megan and I decided to go to the College Station Lions Club’s annual Fourth of July Celebration at the George Bush Presidential Library. I’ve heard about this event for several years from my friend Adam, who plays with the Brazos Valley Symphony, but I’ve never made it out due to the fact it usually rains. When we arrived at 8PM it was over a 100°F, but luckily there was a strong breeze and the temperature quickly dropped to the mid 90s. There were several events for families and kids and various performers on stage. The Brazos Valley Symphony was the last to perform and did an outstanding job. For a small community the fireworks show was...
Read MoreWeb Site Updates
I recently updated the look and feel of the the site. Everything but the home page is designed and coded by me. In the past I would normally find a theme I liked and just modify it to fit my needs; but my needs are getting pickier. I created a mockup of the site using Pixelmator. It’s a nice product developed for the mac that uses the GPU instead of the CPU for rendering. This allows you to see effects in real time. If you have a mac I highly recommend that you try it out; there’s a 30 day demo. I have to say it is much easier to create a mockup in an image editor and make changes versus doing the mockup in code. Being a programmer I prefer to just sit...
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