Chris Boyd
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Gothamist reports that some amazingly talented people calling themselves Girl Walk are releasing an epic music video connected to Girl Talk. It chronicles one girl’s misadventures throughout one day in New York City, all choreographed to Girl Talk’s 2010 release All Day.
Nike+ and Spotify users rejoice: You can definitely use Spotify as your music player while doing a Nike+ run. I discovered this last night out of necessity, I was trying to run to a playlist I’d created on Spotify earlier in the day, but every time I started the run, Nike+ would take over and get all commandeering about the music.
My dad has this theory about how music repeats itself every 20 years. For the most part, I have to agree with him. The 90′s brought echoes of Led Zeppelin and The Doors. With the Aughts came slivers of inspiration from The Cars, New Order, and a myriad of one-hit-wonders.
AllThingsD reports that Facebook is indeed working on a phone after all. It is codenamed Buffy, and is still 18 months from delivery. Which begs the question: Why? I’m of the belief that in 5-10 years, we’re all going to be laughing about the fact that we used to sit down at our computers, open up a browser, and type in URLs or click bookmarks to go to websites.
With the new iOS Data Storage Guidelines that arrived with iCloud and iOS 5, it’s muy importante to pay attention to where you place any preloaded data and file caches. The Documents directory is now only for data that’s been initialized by the user, an important distinction.
Last week I started a new web-based app project that requires a couple of JavaScript files to be bundled in with the app and run locally in a UIWebView. After getting everything prepped, I ran the project and expected to see cool stuff. No cool stuff appeared.
Of all the places on Earth I could think to be on Halloween weekend, none of them seem like they could ever quite compare to my beloved New Orleans. The place is spooky, weird, and haunted on any given day, and on Halloween it all just goes into overdrive.
The Pew Research Center’s Journalism.org released an interesting survey today that centers around news consumption on tablet devices. Amongst the numerous findings, they report that 11% of US adults now own a tablet-based device. That’s pretty impressive for a device that didn’t even exist 2 years ago.
Today we’re going to delve into using the awesome NSOperationQueue method. You’re going to want to sit down for this, because it’s going to blow your mind. You can follow along with the demo project on Github, or build your own step by step.
Being from Louisiana, I have a certain affinity for hip hop and rap. It’s a part of our culture, like Cajun food or Mardi Gras. Even if there’s a track I’m not necessarily familiar with or wouldn’t purchase myself, I can appreciate the modern day poetry and lyrical craftsmanship that goes into it. Rhyming is hard, rhyming fast is even harder. Rhyming well, even harder. Anyone that can do that and keep a crowd entertained at the same time gets my vote.
