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http://yeti-factory.org/post/1378785910766-TextTumble--A-summary-of-development-for-a-fledgling-iPhone-game-programmer

TextTumble: A summary of development for a fledgling iPhone game programmer. TextTumble: A summary of development for a fledgling iPhone game programmer. This post was originally intended to be published in June. I held off publishing it though, intending to expand upon it. In retrospect, it's pretty damn big, so I'm just going to let it ride, and address TextTumble's approval process and release process in a separate post. -CZ. Matt and I were co-workers at the Indianapolis Star. But I had never stuck w...

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http://yeti-factory.org/post/1378784251354-SQL-and-the-Update-Loop

SQL and the Update Loop. SQL and the Update Loop. Normalize your data. If you are querying the database for words, for example, ensure that your input data form matches your database data form before you issue your query. Using a dictionary as an example, make sure the words in your dictionary are either all upper-case or all lower-case, and that your input data matches. The difference between. SELECT word FROM dictionary WHERE UPPER(word) = UPPER(? SELECT word FROM dictionary WHERE word =? Cache failure...

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http://yeti-factory.org/post/1378783536629-Text-Tumble--Getting-Started

Text Tumble: Getting Started. Text Tumble: Getting Started. It's a tough thing, moving between web development (a world which is dominated by scripting languages) and game development. I've been programming computers since I was 16, and for the majority of that time, I've been /paid/ to develop webpages, and /dreamed/ about developing video games. So getting started on iPhone development, while not impossible for me, introduced me to a different set of problems than I'm used to solving in web based apps.

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http://yeti-factory.org/post/1381349467554-Clojure--Docker--Dokku--Digital-Ocean-and-Shell-Script--The-New-Blog--Part-1

Clojure, Docker, Dokku, Digital Ocean and Shell Script: The New Blog, Part 1. Clojure, Docker, Dokku, Digital Ocean and Shell Script: The New Blog, Part 1. I was in a funk. I had been working on products and consulting for a length of time long enough to escape easy recollection. In that time, I had made little time for one of the primary joys of coding: small, exploratory, harmless projects. Experiments whose only customer is myself. I should be able to deploy my blog via git pushes to a Dokku. I decide...

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http://yeti-factory.org/post/1378783745730-Spatial-Query

I recently had the need to build sets of polygons and compute an overall union of them; being the painfully naive person I am, I jumped right into the task thinking that it would be relatively easy. A week later, I had finally arrived at a working polygon clipper modified for boolean operations on poygons (mostly, see the README. So, I decided I'd write Spatial Query. Better explanation and more is available in the README. Comments powered by Disqus. And is open source.

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http://yeti-factory.org/post/1380511579859-Half-Price-Books--Amazon-and-the-Real-Value-of-a-Used-Book

Half Price Books, Amazon and the Real Value of a Used Book. Half Price Books, Amazon and the Real Value of a Used Book. One month ago I was fed up. The amount of space in my house devoted to things I didn't use, wasn't interested in, and had no plans on using in the immediate future tweaked a serious nerve. Clearly I abuse the word gamut. With close to a hundred and fifty. Thankfully, I had another route open to me. According to Amazon's website, Amazon Trade-In. This definitely satisified my desire to g...

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http://yeti-factory.org/post/1378784945123-Inthe-course-of-working-on-a-quick-side-project--I-came-across-a-few-interesting-items-of-note-for-those-working-on-Objective-C-projects-

Toll Free Bridging" for your own data. In the course of working on a quick side project, I came across a few interesting items of note for those working on Objective-C projects. I was looking for a way to recreate the behavior shown by some Core Foundation objects in that they may be cost-free casted to their equivalent type in the Cocoa framework. An example:. It turns out that, should you have a need to represent a struct also as a subclass of some. Member can be found at Mike Ash's website. Method of ...

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http://yeti-factory.org/post/1378784105097-Ruby-Bit-for-the-Weekend

Ruby Bit for the Weekend. Ruby Bit for the Weekend. I was looking over the code behind the New Relic RPM. Plugin for Rails, and noticed a small bit of code in the following style:. To obj, specifically. Without entering into the mostly futile discussion regarding the numerous goods / evils of this sort of monkey patching, it was a cool piece of Ruby functionality I hadn't yet seen. Comments powered by Disqus. This is Chris Zelenak's personal blog. I own Scale Assembly. And is open source.

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http://yeti-factory.org/post/1378759073546-Scaling-Instrumental-with-Scala

Scaling Instrumental with Scala. Scaling Instrumental with Scala. The product I've been working on at Fastest Forward. For the past few years, is written in Ruby. In general, Ruby's been a great win for us: easy to write readable, testable app logic, lots of tools available to help with deploy and infrastructure automation, and, of course, great for developing ideas quickly. About a year ago, we were forced to make a migration from Linode. The largest contributor to our high hosting cost was the money we...