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The next big project…
….built-in “knee wall” dressers for the upstairs! Here’s a couple of pictures from SketchUp. I will give anyone the models, if they are interested in seeing how I designed them. I purchased a bunch of... [read more]
Nov
12
2008
It’s a happy and a sad day.
I’ve known all along that Obama would win. I’m glad I was right! I’m sad that Prop 8 passed. Everyone should consider it a sad day for America when we start removing people’s rights and... [read more]
Nov
5
2008
MOVIE: California Mountain Unicycle Weekend 2008
I made a quick movie for the “California Mountain Unicycle Weekend 2008” in San Diego. Here it is! High quality, requires QuickTime or some other H264 decoder: And for you people who like YouTube, horrible... [read more]
Oct
28
2008
Cal Muni Weekend 2008
Last weekend I drove down my Prius to San Deigo for the annual “California Mountain Unicycle Weekend”. Nathan put some pictures up here: CMW 2008 Here’s me on the top of one of the rides:... [read more]
Oct
22
2008
Project Hutchinson: Upstairs drywall and windows
I’ve been working quite a bit on our upstairs remodel project. I removed an old closet, and installed lighting in the ceiling. This helps tremendously with the look and feel of the room; it was... [read more]
Sep
28
2008
Woodworking: Wedding Boxes
I recently went to the weddings of a few of my friends. Last weekend Tom and Nancy had a “Wedding Camp” celebration, and two weeks ago Andy and Irene got married in their barn. Both... [read more]
Sep
22
2008
SPORE
I got a new video game for the Mac – spore! I really wanted to give it a try last night, but my DVD drive stopped working on my MacBook Pro. Luckily, there are known... [read more]
Sep
12
2008
Why the API? NSTableView -preparedCellAtColumn:row:
I think I’ll do a few articles on why certain API was introduced in Leopard. I’ll start with one of the new methods in NSTableView: /* Returns the fully prepared cell that the view will... [read more]
Sep
11
2008
Cocoa programmers: avoid writing to the user defaults when you don’t need to
[Edit: ecto ate this post, so I’m typing it in again!] I discovered that a lot of applications will unnecessarily write to NSUserDefaults. This causes your app to hit the disk when it shouldn’t, and... [read more]
Aug
26
2008
Post muni pizza
Hmmm pizza! We had a great time riding mr Toads. 3hrs and 15 min– quite fast! Chuck and kevin finished an x large pizza. Louise and I ate only half.
Aug
24
2008
Getting rid of the undo warning in Xcode after saving
One of the most annoying dialogs in Xcode is the undo warning dialog you get when attempting to undo after a save. I do this all the time, and I hate the warning. Luckily, there... [read more]
Aug
22
2008
Tips for getting into unicycling and mountain unicycling
Do you want to just learn to unicycle, or do you want to eventually mountain unicycle (muni)? If your goal is simply to learn to unicycle, your best bet is to get a cheap starter... [read more]
Aug
21
2008
Northstar muni this weekend!
We are going to go muni riding in northstar this weekend! The place has lifts so we can just ride downhill. Here’s the car with my first ever attempt of loading unicycles on the roof.... [read more]
Aug
21
2008
Your most important breakpoint in Cocoa
…..drumroll please…and it is…is: objc_exception_throw. You should always have this breakpoint setup in any Cocoa or Cocoa Touch app that you are building. How do you do it? In Xcode, Run -> Show -> Breakpoints... [read more]
Aug
20
2008
Project Huchinson is alive again!
I’m back to working on my eternal house project. I finished the baseboards for the downstairs, so now it is time to tackle the upstairs. The upstairs is really rough. First off, there are these... [read more]
Aug
19
2008
Barack Obama on twitter
What’s even cooler is that he’s following me now: —– I’m sure it is an auto-added thing, but still, cool :) He’s got my vote!
Aug
19
2008
WordPress for iphone
… Woot! Simple blogging from my iphone 3g. How about this lamp I saw last week? Louise said NO.
Aug
19
2008
Xcode code completion and your code
How can you become a faster Cocoa programmer? One way is to adequately name your variables, enums and classes. Let’s start with enums and take an example from something new to NSTableView in Leopard. This... [read more]
Aug
14
2008
New blog layout
I updated my blog layout. I realize it doesn’t work that well in IE. In versions less than 7, it doesn’t support transparent png images, so the backgrounds probably look bad. In IE 7 it... [read more]
Aug
8
2008
Unicycle paint jobs (2)
I picked up some sweet metallic red auto paint, and painted our unicycles. Here’s some final shots, and eventually I may write up a post on how it was done. Corbin’s KH 24 frame and... [read more]
Aug
4
2008
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