Development

10 Jan 2010

UIPickerView with transparent selection bar

If you don't care for reading my rant at how I arrived at the solution, feel free to simply download the PSD of my UIPickerView skin with transparent selection bar (Photoshop CS3 format, .zip, 94KB) and customize it to your heart's delight and use it in your iPhone apps. Oh, and if I saved you some time, one way of thanking me is to feed my App Store habit with a tip.

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UIPickerView skin with transparent selection bar (aka “an hour or two of hell”)

Or: "How to make an opaque image transparent while matching the color values."

7 Jan 2010


My good friend and Flash guru extraordinaire Seb Lee-Delisle is holding two new two-day classes in Brighton (United Kingdom) in February 2010.

The first course, to take place on February 1st-2nd, is Seb's Official Papervision3D Training class.

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Flash Games and Papervision3D training courses in the UK

Flash guru Seb Lee-Delisle is holding two training courses in the UK in February, 2010: Flash Games Programming and Official Papervision3D training.

21 Nov 2008

App Engine in Flight

Google today released Google App Engine SDK 1.1.6 (announcement, download) which, among other things, brings with it datastore keys that you can sort and filter on.

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Google App Engine SDK 1.1.6 released, brings sortable datastore keys

20 Jun 2008

OReilly InsideRIA

I just started my development diary for the Singularity web conference on O'Reilly InsideRIA. Check out my inaugural post: Building Conference 2.0.

Building Conference 2.0 on O’Reilly InsideRIA

19 Mar 2008

Finally, some concrete news on the Flash Player for iPhone front: according to the Wall Street Journal, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen announced in a conference call to investors that Adobe has begun work on a Flash Player that is suitable for the Apple iPhone.

It looks like Adobe is building the "product in the middle" that Steve Jobs is looking for. Let's hope Apple cooperates by adding the Flash Player to Safari on the iPhone.

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Adobe building Flash Player for iPhone