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5 Lessons I Learned After a Year as a Digital Nomad
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How’s The WiFi. Be a Digital Nomad and Work Anywhere in the World. 5 Lessons I Learned After a Year as a Digital Nomad. Posted on February 7, 2009. It has been 14 months since I sold all my stuff, left Los Angeles, and started living out of a backpack on the road. I’ve learned a ton, but here are five lessons that I thought were particularly important. 1 Run Towards Your Fears. If you’re diligent about washing the stuff that should be kept clean (underwear, socks, etc) and are smart about buying ot...
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A Simple Job Queue With Grand Central Dispatch
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A Simple Job Queue With Grand Central Dispatch. June 27, 2010. In my last two posts, we talked about the basics of GCD and then delved into blocks. Now we’re going to start learning how to replace your old threading code with GCD. For this post, we’ll discuss how to create a simple sequential job queue using. While we’ve seen that we can easily put things onto a concurrent queue, in many cases, you’ll want to create your own FIFO queue. These allow you to:. Guarantee order of operations. We’ve impl...
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Home Again
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September 17, 2009. Over the past 9 months I’ve been working on iTunes 9. Which shipped 9/9/9. Weird. I think the building was pretty new at the time too (completed in 1993 or so? So yeah, I’m in the same building (different floor), and seeing a lot of the old people I used to know. But there are way more new faces than OGs. It all the same, yet different. I’m home again! Comment… read it below or add one. September 18, 2009 at 2:19 am. Notify me of follow-up comments by email.
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Widgets
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Being One with the DOM. May 14, 2007. May 9, 2007. March 21, 2007. That ain’t right! March 19, 2007. What is a Widget? July 10, 2006. Widgets 3.0 Released. December 12, 2005. Get smart with the Thesis WordPress Theme.
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Fiery Robot! — Defender of Corporate Headquarters — Page 2
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November 4, 2008. Just wanted to post an update as to what was happening with Tweetsville, my iPhone Twitter app. First, it’s been approved for sale! But I haven’t seen it show up and sadly I don’t have a link to it. Read on for why. The main reason the app was delayed so long coming out is […]. Read the full article →. The Simple Beauty of clearColor. October 22, 2008. That it might be a bit more […]. Read the full article →. Recursive Locks Will Kill You! October 14, 2008. Read the full article →.
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Gadgets
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IPhone Outlook Sync: Take II. July 28, 2007. Outlook Calendar iPhone Sync Fun. July 22, 2007. January 2, 2007. Verdict: Blackberry Pearl Rocks. December 11, 2006. The Blackberry Saga Continues. December 9, 2006. Blackberry Pearl On Its Way. December 3, 2006. Get smart with the Thesis WordPress Theme.
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Rants
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Threading is Dead. Long Live Threading!
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Threading is Dead. Long Live Threading! June 12, 2010. I stated in a past post that threads are evil. I still stand by that statement. Adding threads to an application has historically been fraught with issues. Many stem from people not quite understanding all of the situations can arise, etc. Oh sure, you might know what a deadlock is, but do you know all the circumstances they can occur? How does one safely shut a thread down? Did the owning object go away? The first thing to learn about in this new wo...
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General
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Threading is Dead. Long Live Threading! June 12, 2010. If Only I Could Write Like This. May 29, 2010. September 17, 2009. Tweetsville Source Back Home. September 12, 2009. November 10, 2008. November 4, 2008. October 11, 2008. October 1, 2008. CoreGraphics is Right After All. September 23, 2008. UIKit: A Fresh Start. March 9, 2008. Larr; Previous Entries. Get smart with the Thesis WordPress Theme.
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iPhone
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Synchronization Using Grand Central Dispatch. September 1, 2010. A Watchdog Timer in GCD. July 10, 2010. A Simple Job Queue With Grand Central Dispatch. June 27, 2010. June 20, 2010. Threading is Dead. Long Live Threading! June 12, 2010. My Journey To Tweetsville. November 15, 2008. November 4, 2008. The Simple Beauty of clearColor. October 22, 2008. October 11, 2008. A Small Trick for Provisioning Profiles. October 10, 2008. Larr; Previous Entries. Get smart with the Thesis WordPress Theme.
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