February 2011
1 post
January 2011
4 posts
December 2010
1 post
Five Ideas a Day
A text editor for the iPad/iPhone that used GitHub as the store. In otherwords, a text editor frontend for GitHub.
November 2010
9 posts
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Five ideas a day.
A subclass of NSArchiver that reads and writes YAML. Wrap it up as a nice framework and stick it on GitHub.
June 2010
4 posts
How I manage my D&D character.
I will describe my current workflow for keeping track of my D&D 4e characters.
I keep all my files for my characters on DropBox. I use DropBox’s iPad app to refer to these files while gaming.
I have a PDF version of the character sheet. DropBox is able to load PDFs, although it is a little slower than a plain image.
For powers, I use Skitch to copy small square sections out of...
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Mary's Fish Camp
Great raw oysters and clams. Great fish, too. Great atmosphere and people.
(40.734, -74.003) map
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Pete's Candy Shop
Just saw oceanliner play a great set.
(40.714, -73.951) map
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Islands
This place is awesome. Jerk chicken, ox tail. Getting the shepherds pie today.
(40.672, -73.963) map
May 2010
13 posts
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First Post From Manhattan
Looks like my App got out of the review process and is now available on the App Store. I’m a little giddy, and a little nervous to see what sort of bugs pop up.
http://iTunes.com/apps/danramteke/placetumbler
(40.764, -73.989) map
Roller Coaster of a Day
Met with Adrian and Brian from SkillSlate.com to discuss employment over lunch. @mattraibert made it to sit with Marina Ambramovic. Talk with Bruce about the next six weeks of the current project. More calls back & emails concerning my the resume. Lost badly at Chicago Express during game night, then won pretty nicely at Sylla. Won at Race for the Galaxy with an all genes tableau.
And now I...
Next Project
Wherein, I ponder what my next side project should be. My previous side project is awaiting review at Apple’s App Store.
Some ideas from my notebook of ideas:
Percolate stat changes for a D&D character.
Share favorite restaurants based on location
Port a board game to the iPad, (Race for the Galaxy, Dos de Mayo)
A text editor with git support for iPhone/iPad.
An iPad app for...
Made some minor tweaks to my website. Played 5 games of Race for the Galaxy. Heated up left over vindaloo, veggies, rice, and mah po to fu. Checked on my app (it is still waiting for review). Found some good songs on last.fm by Foster the People. Sent out some resumes.
A good night.
New Book: Ignore Everybody →
You can read the first bit of the book there. Interesting and entertaining so far.
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Apple Store, 5th Ave.
Stopping in, between visiting Central Park and the MoMA.
(40.764, -73.973) map
It takes iPhone Simulator screenshots. →
Pretty awesome app from Curious Times in Germany! It does what I want it to do pretty easily. And does some fancy stuff, too.
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Tumblr Write API can be slow, sometimes.
The Tumblr app that I’m developing sometimes times out when creating a new post on Tumblr. It has never timed out when authenticating a new user, just when creating posts. However, the post gets created on Tumblr anyway.
(confused face)
I increased the request timeout in my app to deal with this for now. But I’ve also had times when 60 seconds is not long enough.
I wish this...
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Jazzy's
Varick St & Charlton
Great hot sandwhiches with great horse radish. Had the roast turkey on a hero with lettuce, tomato and horse radish. 40.728374,-74.002605 (map)
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Cyrus innovation
At work 40.728374,-74.002605 (map)
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Lincoln Tunnel.
Driving through the Lincoln Tunnel. 40.744593,-74.036837 (map)
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Has anyone solved file syncing on the iPad/Phone?
DropBox and iDisk are both on the iDevices. What if you could open .graffle files in OmniGraffle for iPad from your DropBox? And when you were done editing, the updated file would replace the version in DropBox? That’d be cool.
The alternative for iPhone developers seems to be building their own custom syncing, like Simplenote.
April 2010
6 posts
Alarms
I find that a radio alarm clock tuned to NPR is better at waking me up on the morning than a loud-repeating-noise. I suspect that the intellectual stimulation gets my brain going again — like my brain that keeps going at night and keeps me awake thinking at night. But loud-repetitive-noise is merely an annoyance, and can be mentally blocked out like bad advertising.
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When mixing CherryPy and HTTP/1.1, use HTTP/1.0...
While developing an app on top of CherryPy, I would get an insidious error: the browser would show a blank page. Randomly. This would happen about 10% of the time, but go up to 40% or 50% over time. Needless to say this was difficult to diagnose.
Here’s how we fixed it: Because we were running CherryPy behind Apache we told Apache to send HTTP/1.0 messages to CherryPy instead of HTTP/1.1...
I learned some Git last night.
I started working on an iPhone portion to Delicious Restaurants. I made a branch in git to store it named iphone, with the rails app still living in master. So far I’m happy with this set up, except that Xcode complains that everything on disk got deleted everytime I checkout a different branch.
I also learned this: To convert a branch to a tracking branch, add
[branch "iphone"]
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Lack of Fancy Refactoring in Xcode
I’ve been working on an iPhone app, using Apple’s Xcode IDE.
I miss the intelligent and quick refactorings in IntelliJ for Java. My fingers want to type the short cuts for common refactorings like “extract method” and “inline variable.” But they don’t exist in Xcode. It feels crippling. I’m so used to easily molding code without doing a ton of...
August 2009
1 post
July 2009
4 posts
Restaurant Retrospective
With an impending move, I thought I’d take a few moments to chronicle some of the best eats on the Upper West Side.
My favorite sushi was Suma Sushi between 107th and 108th Street on Amsterdam Ave. Fuji Sushi on 56th Street between Broadway and 8th Ave is a very very close runner up. Which ever is closer is the decider here.
There are two great Mexican Restaurants on the UWS. Taqueria y...
June 2009
1 post
May 2009
1 post
April 2009
13 posts
