Upgrading from iPhone to iPhone 3GS and SE S500i to iPhone.... [More]

Elissa and I are proud to announce that we have a new member of our little family. We picked up a 6 month-old black lab (mix) from the Tri-county humane society in St Cloud. The shelter had him named "Cash",...... [More]

Can anyone spot what's wrong with this code? void foo( void ) { struct Test { int a; }; std::vector tests; tests.push_back( new Test ); } Here's a hint: it compiles fine in Visual Studio, but not in XCode. The...... [More]

Sorry for the long absence, but we moved! After Elissa graduated and walked, we moved back to our house in Minnesota. So for the past few weeks, I've been without internet connectivity. It's been a blessing and a curse. It's...... [More]

Gruber summarized the rejection of the Commodore 64 emulator as: Looks like an awesome app — a working C64 emulator with a gorgeous UI. But while I hope this gets worked out and allowed into the store (I’d buy it in a heartbeat), it should not be c... [More]

We've relaunched a simplified site that we're going to integrate each of our individual blogs together, as well as post unique content here for all to read. We're still getting situated here, and we will be open sourcing CalendarKit shortly here. St... [More]

A review of the Dakim Brain Fitness Unit; its GUI is written in REALbasic.... [More]

The clan grows!... [More]

The Pair class and a Pair operator crept silently into the REALbasic language in REALbasic 2008r2. A Pair is an immutable object consisting of a pair of Variants. You create a Pair object using the : operator. dim p as Pair = 3:5 You retrieve... [More]

Reporting Tools that work with REALbasic remain a hot topic, so I thought it would be worth a brief post to list the options that are currently available. On-Target Reports: $200 The oldest and most mature of the reporting solutions. It is a set of ... [More]

Nintendo struggles to keep my interest sometimes, but when it does... damn it's good.... [More]

While helping Elissa with her thesis presentation, I got really annoyed at PowerPoint for its incredibly stupid habit of saving external data as absolute paths. Yes, I know absolute paths are unavoidable on Windows. However, that doesn't mean you get... [More]

Lis passed her defense with flying colors! :-) Her little brother, Lawrence, and I went up a bit early to hang out with her on Tuesday. Mostly to make sure the presentation was all in order (PowerPoint + sounds =...... [More]

I've been pretty terrible at blogging lately, but that's because Elissa and I have been super busy. She defends her Master's thesis today at 2pm! The last two years worth of struggling all pretty much end today. She's been sitting...... [More]

Like most remote employees, I have to deal with forms via PDF files fairly regularly. This isn't usually a problem, except for two minor details: 1) I hate wasting paper with printing crap out and then scanning it back in,...... [More]

The boot time and uptime of a Linux computer are available from the /proc filesystem. /proc/stat returns, among other information, the boot time in seconds since the Unix epoch. /proc/uptime returns the number of seconds the system has been up. P... [More]

Sorry about the lack of updates this past week! I got back from France last Thur (the 30th) pretty late at night, and have spent most of the week trying to get used to life again. It's been super hot...... [More]

This blog has changed feeds (switched to wordpress). The new feed is at ... [More]

Software REALbasic 2009 Release 2 - The most stable version of REALbasic ever! Formatted Text Control 1.5 - I finally bought this long-admired control PictureButton 1.0 - A new button class from Einhugur Einhugur Reports 1.0a2 - A very promising new... [More]

One of the things I've been working on lately is an architecture for lexers, and I'm basing my work off an existing SQL lexer I have access to. The lexer is well-factored, so refactoring it into a more generic tool...... [More]

I made it in to France safe and sound. My flight from Ontario to Dallas was pretty uneventful, though they managed to land a bit late. So that meant I got to run from one side of DFW to the...... [More]

It's Elissa's birthday today, and she turns.... hahaha, not gonna say. ;-) It's frickin hot out today. According to my thermometer, it's 101 degrees in the shade. I head out to France tomorrow for a week of work, and the...... [More]

Elissa's birthday weekend started today (Friday is weekend enough I suppose, right?), and we did it up in style! We went to the Cheesecake Factory for a nice bday lunch, and I consumed a disgusting amount of food. The burger...... [More]

Hooo boy, I was like a kid in the candy store last night. Elissa got home just after the server came up, and I basically gave her a kiss and said "I'll see you tomorrow." She's so sweet to let...... [More]

Hey everyone! After a brief hiatus while I pulled the old content offline and archived it, Ramblings is back up and running. I took this opportunity to destroy the old databases and start over entirely from scratch. While this will...... [More]