perceptionz.net 2.0 - Because we can

Just noticed that after a big round of redundancies at my day job the news sure does travel fast.

To summarize:

- Increased website hits
- LinkedIn Profile views from agencies (or companies)

But that is a really good thing….

A little walkthrough of something I’m working on! Currently ironing out a few bugs, maybe some UI tweaks and doing some field testing to see how useful it would be for other people.

I’ve developed apps using interface building and without it. Here’s the rundown of why Interface Builder is good AND why it is not.

Here’s a quick timesaver (thanks to the wonderful people at Google) to stay updated. You could also use this to aggregate any combination of sites with a little “Google-Fu”.
Using Google Blog Search, you can create an RSS feed to search terms. As all my blogs sit on the *.perceptionz.net domain, you can simply add the [...]

Just found a pretty cool (and geeky) way of querying wikipedia.

Running the command dig +short txt keyword.wp.dg.cx will return a short description as a DNS TXT response with the wikipedia article.

Have been searching the web for how to do it, but I have found a way to make the correct file format from Apple’s push notification documentation and some other sites which show where to replace the file.
Anyway here are the steps:

Run the following command afconvert -f caff -d ima4 -v  filename_to_convert.ext sms-received1.caf
(Please note that [...]

Well progress has been on and off in spurts but have finally integrated the UI (which is a simple UITableView with some custom cells, a settings controller, and a details controller) to a class which grabs the YQL data and converts it to a readable format.
Just a little tidying up, adding in some unit tests, [...]

Been a while since there was a post here, but its definetely that tine of year agaIn when creativity starts flowing!
Have started work on a YQL based iPhone app a.k.a iStimulate-the-economy-by-showing-when-the-best-time-to-buy-is(using Yahoo’s YQL APIs + the YOS Objective C library). What Im doing is querying information off a HTML (shopping) site and presenting it as [...]

I’ve just stumbled across a photoshop PSD file with all the iPhone controls which will help with designing screens (without opening XCode / Interface Builder)

You guessed it! I’m now in the mood for a little iPhone development (wonder if I will see this one through all the way to distribution).