How To Find the Private Key For the Delicious API

I’d like to write a python script that looked at my Delicious Bookmarks and checks to see if they are dead links. This is possible because Delicious has an API. And you can just ask for what you want by asking for a specific URL. That works fine as long as you don’t want your…

iBooks GUID Problem When Duplicating iBooks Author Documents

My wife embarked on creating a textbook for Major British Writers at Abilene Christian University last summer. In the process she ran into a problem after duplicating iBooks Author (IBA) files to break up the book. When her students attempted to download and install the books, they found they could only have one of them…

Speaking of Simulators That Don’t Simulate.

One of my complaints about the Corona Simulator was that things don’t run at the same speed on the device and in the simulator. Generally they run faster in the Corona Simulator. Well working with Cocos2d, I had written 2 lines of code and discovered things don’t run in the iOS simulator like the device….

Corona SDK Game Project Post-mordem

This past semester I audited Intro to Digital Entertainment at ACU. I’ve always been interested in video game development and wanted to learn more. For my final project I decided to write a video game using the cross-platform mobile SDK, Corona. That project was due last Thursday and I decided to post my thoughts on…

Scripting XCode4 To Generate Method Comments

This article will show you how to use a python script to generate a comment from the actual declaration of the method. So you’d have something that looked like this (Click image at right for bigger) XCode 4 Doesn’t Support Scripting of Any Kind XCode 4 removed the Script Menu and all the hooks that…