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Today I was delighted to learn that my blog is far more popular in Houston than I had previously thought. How cool to learn that people find my posts about iOS apps, lovelorn Spotify playlists, and what I do during vacations in New Orleans so fascinating.
I never intended to spend my twenties in the same place. The plan, always, was to bounce around: Houston for three years, then New Orleans, then Portland, maybe NYC or San Francisco, and then settle down again in New Orleans and start a family. Life had other plans.
I’ve worked on software of all shapes and sizes. One of the world’s largest open source projects. Small, back-office projects that never saw the light of day. All points in between. There really has never been a dull moment, because I love challenges, and as a developer I’m always faced with challenges new and old every day.
Yesterday I gave my small contribution to the SOPA STRIKE movement by blacking out my site using a design I created to reflect the eventual outcome of SOPA. It was a notice from the FTC that the site had been disabled for violations of the SOPA Act, and suggested that if the user desired more information they could file a Freedom of Information Act request, BY MAIL ONLY, at a snail mail address.
Right now as I’m writing this I’m about to board JetBlue Flight 620 to JFK. Like several other people, I’m using the airport’s free WIFI access point to get onto the internet. Free, public WIFI is something that’s become somewhat of an expected luxury in the 10′s. I’m rarely in a place that isn’t near some sort of open WIFI network.
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.
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.
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.
First of all, I just wanted to say I get it. I really do. iTunes, Hulu, Amazon Instant Video, HBO Go, just to name a few. Things are changing, DVDs are going the way of the CD. Physical media, in all forms, is dying. You don’t purchase media anymore, you consume it immediately. The purchase is now an afterthought.
