Monthly Archives: March 2007

QuickTime’s Strange API

Posted on 2007-03-29 by frank

A while back one of our projects at work needed a plug-in for Unity to play QuickTime movies in the scene. It worked out well; the plug-in took me several days to implement, including one false start where I tried … Continue reading →

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Daylight Saving Time so far

Posted on 2007-03-12 by frank

I’m a morning person by nature and don’t use an alarm clock unless I have to be somewhere early, like the airport for a 6:00 A.M. flight. Now the clock tells me it’s 9:43 P.M., my wife and daughters have … Continue reading →

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Does YOUR bed head have a barcode?

Posted on 2007-03-11 by frank

I’d been meaning to scan all my books, cds, dvds, and games in to Delicious Library for a while now, and this morning I finally made some progress. While using the built-in iSight camera of my iMac to scan bunches … Continue reading →

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Scaling, padding, Cocoa, and Bindings

Posted on 2007-03-08 by frank

I mentioned a while ago needing to implement batched image processing for my mom’s website that would allow her to easily generate a bunch of images of a certain size, padded with a certain color, for her website. Besides the … Continue reading →

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Cocoa Bindings are awesome, yet fraught with peril for the inexperienced

Posted on 2007-03-03 by frank

Apparently ivars that are bound to from a nib, via a controller object, don’t have an initial or default value unless I assign one either via code or via the UI element. Almost all of my experience with the NeXT … Continue reading →

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