http://playcontrol.net/ewing/jibberjabber/ en Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:32:38 -0800 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sandvox 2.2.3 http://playcontrol.net/ewing/jibberjabber/luacocoa-v032-released.html <div class="article-summary"><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;"><br /></p> <div class="first graphic-container wide left ImageElement"> <div class="graphic"> <div class="figure-content"><!-- sandvox.ImageElement --><img width="128" height="128" src="http://playcontrol.net/ewing/_Media/lang-128.gif" alt="inTextMediumImage" /><!-- /sandvox.ImageElement --></div> </div> </div><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;">Happy New Year everybody! I have released LuaCocoa 0.3.2 into the wild.  </p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;"><br /></p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;">This version contains fixes for Lion plus improvements to the command line tools. </p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;"><strong>v 0.3.2: (More Lion fixes, command line libreadline support, PowerPC dropped)</strong></p><ul><li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;">Fixed bug for prepping ffi data return values for structs which was manifesting itself as a ffi failure on Lion 64-bit calling cascadeTopLeftFromPoint in the MinimalAppKit example .<br /></li></ul> </div> Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:18:41 -0800 http://playcontrol.net/ewing/jibberjabber/luacocoa-v032-released.html http://playcontrol.net/ewing/jibberjabber/my-top-4-reasons-for-purcha.html <div class="article-summary"><p><img width="430" height="192" src="http://playcontrol.net/ewing/_Media/quickenibanksee-20_med.png" alt="Quicken iBank SEE Finance" class="first" /> </p><p>A little over a month ago, I wrote an <a href="#">article about trying to decide between iBank 4 and SEE Finance</a>. I finally made a decision and just purchased a license for SEE Finance.  </p><p>Here are my Top 4 Reasons for picking SEE Finance over iBank 4: </p><p><br /></p><p><strong>1) Vanguard Direct Download support</strong></p><p>…</p></div> Mon, 05 Sep 2011 01:24:12 -0700 http://playcontrol.net/ewing/jibberjabber/my-top-4-reasons-for-purcha.html http://playcontrol.net/ewing/jibberjabber/new-video-available-present.html <div class="article-summary"><img width="67" height="57" src="http://playcontrol.net/ewing/_Media/cocoaheads_med.png" alt="cocoaheads" class="first narrow left graphic-container" /><p>I gave a presentation about iOS Audio and OpenAL to promote the book two weeks ago at the Silicon Valley Chapter of <a href="http://cocoaheads.org/" target="_blank">CocoaHeads</a>. The video is now up on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QQAzhwalPI" target="_blank">YouTube</a>. I also have it embedded on my <a href="#">Screencasts</a> page. </p><p><br /></p></div> Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:30:11 -0700 http://playcontrol.net/ewing/jibberjabber/new-video-available-present.html http://playcontrol.net/ewing/jibberjabber/automated-mobile-test-part5.html <div class="article-summary"><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;"><em>This post is a mirror of what I posted on <u><a href="http://blog.anscamobile.com/2011/08/automated-testing-on-mobile-devices-part5">Anscamobile.com</a></u>.</em></p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;"><em><br /></em></p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;">There has been a lot of <a href="#" target="_blank">material presented over the last four parts</a>. In this final part, we will finally go into some detail about our automated testing system for Android. We will also finally get an opportunity to bring everything together by looking a little more how our shell scripts orchestrate the test run and connect components from the previous parts. </p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;"><br /></p></div> Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:18:23 -0700 http://playcontrol.net/ewing/jibberjabber/automated-mobile-test-part5.html http://playcontrol.net/ewing/jibberjabber/automated-mobile-test-part4.html <div class="article-summary"><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;"><em>This post is a mirror of what I posted on <u><a href="http://blog.anscamobile.com/2011/08/automated-testing-on-mobile-devices-part4">Anscamobile.com</a></u>.</em></p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;"><em><br /></em></p><p><span style="font-family: Helvetica;" class="Apple-style-span">We allow Corona developers to also build for the Xcode iOS Simulator. Sometimes the simulator is preferable to our Mac or Windows simulator because the Xcode Simulator behaves more like a real device. …</span></p></div> Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:46:41 -0700 http://playcontrol.net/ewing/jibberjabber/automated-mobile-test-part4.html http://playcontrol.net/ewing/jibberjabber/automated-mobile-test-part3.html <div class="article-summary"><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;"><em>This post is a mirror of what I posted on <u><a href="http://blog.anscamobile.com/2011/08/automated-testing-on-mobile-devices-part3">Anscamobile.com</a></u>.</em></p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;"><em><br /></em></p><p>As stated in <a href="#">Part 1</a>, we use <a href="http://fperrad.github.com/lua-TestMore/" target="_blank">lua-TestMore</a> for our testing and reporting. The output format is called TAP (Test Anything Protocol) . It is human readable and simple. TestMore and TAP are widely used enough that there are tools available to help you use it. </p><p><br /></p></div> Sun, 07 Aug 2011 22:47:52 -0700 http://playcontrol.net/ewing/jibberjabber/automated-mobile-test-part3.html http://playcontrol.net/ewing/jibberjabber/automated-mobile-test-part2.html <div class="article-summary"><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;"><em>This post is a mirror of what I posted on <u><a href="http://blog.anscamobile.com/2011/08/automated-testing-on-mobile-devices-part2">Anscamobile.com</a></u>.</em></p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;"><em><a href="http://blog.anscamobile.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=9134&amp;action=edit&amp;message=10"><br /></a></em></p><p>Now that you've seen <a href="#">the overview of the whole system</a>, I'm going to talk about on-device testing on iOS first because this has been where we have endured the most pain.<br /> </p><p>The fundamental problem is that there are no good automated ways to install and launch an app to an iOS device. …</p></div> Sun, 07 Aug 2011 16:15:23 -0700 http://playcontrol.net/ewing/jibberjabber/automated-mobile-test-part2.html http://playcontrol.net/ewing/jibberjabber/automated-mobile-test-part1.html <div class="article-summary"><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;"><em>This post is a mirror of what I posted on <a href="http://blog.anscamobile.com/2011/08/automated-testing-on-mobile-devices-part1">Anscamobile.com</a>.</em></p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;"><br /></p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;"><strong>Preamble:</strong></p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;">This post is going to be a little different than usual. What we present here is behind the scenes stuff used in making the Corona SDK. But we hope the information presented here goes beyond satisfying simple academic curiosity. …</p></div> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 15:59:01 -0700 http://playcontrol.net/ewing/jibberjabber/automated-mobile-test-part1.html http://playcontrol.net/ewing/jibberjabber/safely-installing-front-row.html <div class="article-summary"><img width="213" height="330" src="http://playcontrol.net/ewing/_Media/frontrow_med.png" alt="FrontRow" class="first narrow left graphic-container" /><p>I read at <a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/161284/2011/07/farewell_frontrow.html" target="_blank">Macworld.com</a> that Apple's Front Row has been removed from Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. They also include instructions on how to install Front Row on Lion, by copying off the binaries from a Snow Leopard installation, and then <strong>copying them into your /System folders on Lion</strong>…</p></div> Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:47:57 -0700 http://playcontrol.net/ewing/jibberjabber/safely-installing-front-row.html http://playcontrol.net/ewing/jibberjabber/ibank-4-vs-see-finance-buh.html <div class="article-summary"><img width="430" height="192" src="http://playcontrol.net/ewing/_Media/quickenibanksee-20_med.png" alt="Quicken iBank SEE Finance" class="first" /><p>With Mac OS X 10.7 Lion now shipping, I am in process of upgrading. But I am one of those poor unfortunate souls that use Quicken for Mac. It came with some of my Mac's way back so I started using it. I'm not particularly fond of it, but it generally worked, Inertia speaks. …</p></div> Fri, 29 Jul 2011 01:00:04 -0700 http://playcontrol.net/ewing/jibberjabber/ibank-4-vs-see-finance-buh.html