Internet addiction is serious business!
August 24, 2010 by Josh Highland
Filed under comic, funny
Benefit plans in the age of social networks
August 18, 2010 by Josh Highland
Filed under comic, funny
In todays workplace, this actually isn’t that bad of a benefit plan…
Macbook Pro – Make an external monitor your primary display
August 9, 2010 by Josh Highland
Filed under mac, tutorials
Recently, I got a mac laptop at work, which is sup[er sweet, but I wanted to hook it up to a real monitor, keyboard and mouse. All very easy things to do. The problem I had was that the laptop was acting as the primary monitor. Every application that I drug over to the secondary [...]
Outputting a BOOL in NSLog
August 6, 2010 by Josh Highland
Filed under iPhone app dev, tutorials
Ever wanted to use NSLog in the iPhone SDK to see the value of a BOOL? Heck I have! “How do you do it”, you say? Just like this: NSLog(@"BOOL = %@\n", (boolVar ? @"YES" : @"NO")); Then again, I don’t use NSLog anymore, I use DebugLog
ColdFusion powered iPhone Applications
August 4, 2010 by Josh Highland
Filed under coldfusion, iPhone app dev, tutorials, video
Last month I had the honor of being a presenter at CFUnited 2010. Luis Majano and I gave a presentation on creating “ColdFusion Powered iPhone Applications”. Specifically, coldfusion apps running on the ColdBox Framework The volume is low, so you need to crank it up. You can download our demo source code and slides here
UITextField.text is not always there!
July 30, 2010 by Josh Highland
Filed under iPhone app dev, tutorials
If you have UITextField in your app and you want to validate a value or see is there something in it you might think to write some code like this: if (![addNewCellTextField.text isEqualToString:@""]) You would be right, but this will fail if the field is never touched! When a user taps the field, and it [...]
Upgrading RAM in a MacBook Pro unibody
July 30, 2010 by Josh Highland
Filed under hardware, tutorials
I helped run the camera while my good friend Luis Majano upgraded the RAM in his MacBook Pro unibody
Here Is Why Web Developers Like Me Hate IE6
July 30, 2010 by Josh Highland
Filed under funny, windows
CFUnited 2010 here I come!
July 20, 2010 by Josh Highland
Filed under coldfusion, iPhone app dev
I will be speaking at this years CFUnited conference in Lansdowne Virgina, at the Lansdowne Resort CFUnited is an annual conference based around the Coldfusion, Flex, and AIR languages and platforms. This year I will be co-presenting with Luis Majano on “ColdFusion Powered iPhone Applications” The session will cover how to develop and power iPhone [...]
My iPhone 4 review
June 26, 2010 by Josh Highland
Filed under iPhone, video
hands down the best mobile device I have ever used