Archive for January 1st, 2012

 

HSC Toolkit – Aims

 
 

Foresight's Horizon Scanning Centre has built this toolkit: Exploring the future: Tools for strategic thinking for anyone who uses, or would like to use, futures thinking and analysis to make better decisions today.

The toolkit is intended for futures analysts, policy-makers, strategists and people managing a futures process.

http://hsctoolkit.bis.gov.uk/

Augmented Reality with #Processing – Tutorial by Amnon Owed | CreativeApplications.Net

 
 

NyARToolkit is an augmented reality toolkit built with 100% pure Java. It is derived from ARToolkit-2.72.1. Like Processing itself it’s open source and free! In this tutorial you will learn how to use it to place computer generated imagery correctly onto real world footage. To do this in real-time NyArtoolkit uses markers – black and white images – to determine the three-dimensional position and orientation in the real world. Most likely you will have seen something like this before, but now you will learn how to do it yourself using freely available software.

http://www.creativeapplications.net/processing/augmented-reality-with-processing-tutorial-processing/

BBC – Radio Labs: How we make websites

 
 

For the past few months I've been touting a presentation around the BBC entitled 'How we make websites'. It's a compendium of everything our team has learned from long years developing /programmes, the recent work on /music and the currently in development /events.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2009/01/how_we_make_websites.shtml

iPhone Auto-rotation for intermediate developers

 
 

Sure, you’ve been developing on iPhone for 6 months now, but do you *really* understand auto-rotation?

Ever seen strange edge-cases where it doesn’t quite seem to behave as expected?

Ever wondered why UINavigationController and UITabBarController seem to “break” auto-rotation of your custom views – views that work fine if you copy/paste them into a fresh XCode project?

In this post, I’ll cover just the very basics: making a non-rotating app rotate, and examining all the side-effects – and some of the workarounds for them.

http://red-glasses.com/index.php/tutorials/iphone-auto-rotation-for-intermediate-developers-tutorial-1/

Migrating your code to Objective-C ARC | MKBlog

 
 

Recently, Apple introduced several new developer stuff including Xcode 4, ARC, LLVM Compiler 3.0 and iOS 5. From some of the questions on Stack overflow, I could understand that, most of the ARC related confusions arise due to the fact that, developers don’t know if “ABC” is a feature/restriction of LLVM 3.0 or iOS 5 or ARC.
Retain cycles, auto-release pools, @autorelease blocks, oh man! So many new things? What am I going to do? You are right. ARC, or Objective-C Automatic Reference Counting is almost as magical as the iPad. No really!
In this post, I’ve made an attempt to demystify the air around this.

http://blog.mugunthkumar.com/articles/migrating-your-code-to-objective-c-arc/

Minimum Project Management Practices for One-Man Software Projects – Project Management – Stack Exchange

 
 
 
 

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