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Creating a Horizontal Scrolling Collection View Within a UITableView

macelangelo — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:19:13 +0000

A few months ago, I joined OrgSync as an iOS developer. One of the things the developers there really encourage is sharing with the community. We’ve recently kicked off a developer blog here. OrgSync Developer’s Blog As part of that, I’m adding some iOS-specific posts about some of the interesting …

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The question of WWDC

macelangelo — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:16:26 +0000

This year, Apple took a different approach to selling tickets to their annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC or “dub, dub” as some devs call it). They announced a day ahead of time when the tickets would go on sale instead of taking the traditional approach of selling tickets as soon …

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Review: The Raven Boys

macelangelo — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 03:39:44 +0000

Even though the target audience is young adult, Maggie Stiefvater’s The Raven Boys is an entertaining supernatural story that captures all of the teen angst you’d expect, but is still engaging for readers of all ages. The story centers around Blue Sargent, a 16-year girl from a small town in …

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Joy of Audiobooks

macelangelo — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 03:20:47 +0000

Audiobooks, for me, are the one thing that help me keep my sanity through my long commute in DFW traffic. Audible.com is a perfect solution for me. It gave me enough credits to burn on audiobooks, and I would go through about 2-3 books a month. After I quit my …

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Election Drama

macelangelo — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 02:33:58 +0000

So, if you’re drinking while watching the election coverage, take a shot each time the press calls a state “too close to call.” You should be passed out long before the night is over.

Disneyfying-Star Wars Part Two

macelangelo — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 02:44:30 +0000

Ok, After reading this post by Harry Knowles of AintItCoolNews, I’m feeling a bit less pessimistic about Disney owning Star Wars. Harry Chimes in on Star Wars My biggest fear is that they’ll stay the course like Lucas did with the first three films and try to specifically target an …

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Disney-fying Star Wars

macelangelo — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 06:34:59 +0000

So, ol’ George has finally admitted defeat… He’s finally gotten tired of finding new ways to milk more money out of the Star Wars franchise. So, let’s sell it off to the one corporate entity who is even better than Lucas at licensing the crap out of their creations and …

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desperation sets in

macelangelo — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 06:02:44 +0000

We’re less than two days from the presidential elections, and both sides are launching a flurry of ads on television to sway those STILL undecided voters to their side. The most disturbing set of these ads comes from the Republican PACs, and after seeing a few of these you really …

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Moving (around)

macelangelo — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 04:39:04 +0000

In case anyone sees some wackiness going on here, I’m in the process of moving hosting and DNS and all sorts of technical blah blah junk. Since I’m moving the server, chances are likely I’ll pick a new theme (I seem to do this about once every couple of years …

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The Dark Knight (Mostly) Rises

macelangelo — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 04:51:57 +0000

(Note: Although I was at one of the marathon Batman screenings on Thursday evening, I didn’t learn about the tragedy in Aurora until late Friday morning. My deepest sympathies go out to the families of those who lost their lives.) I went into The Dark Knight Rises with medium …

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