Comments for Live to Try

Comment on Goals, Exercise, Music, Drugs and Farmville. by Erich Kuersten

Erich Kuersten — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:37:39 +0000

DOPAMINE!

And let’s not forget if you add SSRI meds to that mix, you get double the serotonin to go with your dopa and then you’re Bam Booom ZIpppp!

Comment on Basic Memory Management: EFF-ing up my arrays by Thanks!

Thanks! — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:07:56 +0000

Thank you! I was stuck for so long trying to understand why I was getting a memory error and this solved it! Thanks!

Comment on iOS Books by Andy

Andy — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:30:48 +0000

Check out the Mark & LaMarche series also. I really like them. The Hillegass book on Cocoa for OSX is ok too.

Comment on Managing your Email is a Waste of Time by Rob

Rob — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:02:31 +0000

I worked this way at ML, but always had a slight tinge of guilt (like the same guilt you get everytime you look at that big pile of unopened bank statements that you really should get around to filing).

I got around the guilt problem by periodically going through the whole inbox deleting stuff – but that task gets more daunting the longer you leave it, which makes you feel progressively more guilty.

Now I have another solution – do as you say (ignoring stuff) the whole week, and when you get 20 mins on a Sunday afternoon, fire up the BlackBerry and file anything useful that’s completed, delete anything non-useful. (As an aside, I find the BB’s filing UI is far better than driving Outlook with a mouse). Now I don’t get guilty.

However, I often can’t be bothered with the 20 mins’ work. So it becomes 40 mins the following Sunday. Or 60 mins the Sunday afterwards, etc. Whatever. As you say, it doesn’t stop me working: LookOut (pre-Microsoft crippling) is awesome, and efficient searching is the key to being able to work just as quickly with a messy inbox as with a neat one.

All that happens when I’m four or five Sundays in is that I have a tinge of guilt. Perhaps I need to learn to live with it.

Comment on Going Indie: It Begins by Rob

Rob — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:08:55 +0000

Good luck!!

Comment on Going Indie: It Begins by spanelo

spanelo — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:32:59 +0000

woohoo!! you’re a free woman

Comment on Going Indie: It Begins by Victoria Wang

Victoria Wang — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 07:09:51 +0000

Congrats Alexis!!! Looking forward to seeing where your indie life leads.

Comment on A Whirlwind Tour of WWDC 2010 by Stanley Siu

Stanley Siu — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:13:36 +0000

Alexis. OMG. I can’t believe it is you. Great blog.

We have the same passion of Apple technology! And incidentally I started a blog about Cocoa/Objective-C etc.. ktatsiu.wordpress.com

Comment on A Whirlwind Tour of WWDC 2010 by Sarah Allen

Sarah Allen — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:23:16 +0000

Thanks for putting together this great video about WWDC — I wish I had been there too.!

Sarah

Comment on Basic Memory Management: EFF-ing up my arrays by am

am — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:50:17 +0000

Richard,

The errors are definitely frustrating, especially EXEC_BAD_ACCESS. Though i am usually able to debug them fairly quickly without too much hair-pulling

Reading through the docs has definitely been helping me, and I actually don’t find it that unintuitive. But it’s certainly a slow process learning, as there is a not of material i need to absorb!

Will you be at WWDC?

What is your favorite thing about Android?