Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Jan 4, 2012, 5:20 am
This article from Business Insider got me started. Since I have to time to address potential fanboy arguments let’s go this way. For each time you think I am a fanboy I’ll think of you one of the following: - troll - user who has time to loose with lower quality devices/experiences - user who...
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Nov 17, 2011, 6:48 am
He moves like Steve Jobs and his attitude is inspiring as well.
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Oct 31, 2011, 12:07 pm
This is an excerpt from my chapter on iCloud included in iOS5 by tutorials. We all have “stuff” we use on our iPhones and iPads regularly like documents, pictures, videos, emails, calendars, music, and address books. But how many times have you tried to quickly open a document and realized “a...
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Oct 6, 2011, 8:14 am
I’ll remember you like this, spreading creative fire.
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Aug 23, 2011, 3:39 am
I recently published a tutorial series titled “Building a Jabber client for iOS”. Here is the complete list/ Part 1: Server setup Part 2: Interface setup Part 3: XMPP integration The source code is available here on github
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Jul 29, 2011, 9:10 am
New is cool. I like to try new things, even alpha or beta stuff. I like to see changes, improvements, new directions. I like the way Apple continuously pushes improvements: one new iDevice almost each year, new software solutions, new ways to save data. But I can’t let the things I like to influen...
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Jun 30, 2011, 11:05 am
This is an excerpt of a tutorial I wrote for raywenderlich.com. Many iOS apps use HTTP to communicate to a web server, because it’s easy, convenient, and well-supported. However, in some cases you might find the need to go a bit lower level than HTTP, and communicate using TCP sockets to your ow...
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Jun 20, 2011, 6:38 pm
Things change. Newspapers have been the gates of daily knowledge. Now we have blogs, twitter and so on. Either newspaper will learn how to find their place in this new context or they will die, probably slowly. We are in need of great content. Once only journalist were allowed to write it. Now every...
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Jun 8, 2011, 7:37 am
Scenario: I am involved in the launch of a new product. My feelings? Thrill and excitement. Many questions are rolling in my head. They can all sum up to how will it go?. I really don’t know. I am more than convinced that a product has to lead people to think “it just works”. I am more than co...
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Apr 3, 2011, 12:58 pm
I will try to argue why the current discussion on open vs closed source is a non sense for the final user. Honestly I am try trying to figure out why Apple and its steersman sometimes bring the topic up. They usually care of design. I am not the first to say that Apple is a design company. There is ...
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Jan 12, 2011, 7:39 am
This is the time of the year where I plan my future months, I talk about the projects, schedule time for conferences, essentially I get organized. Last week I have been inundated by the usual ton of posts about new year resolution: I will do this, this and that. I am against this practice because fo...
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - May 3, 2010, 7:52 am
I heard about Pomodoro a while ago. I have to he honest: I was skeptical. My first reaction? “Com’on, I am able to manage my time, I don’t need any technique”. I was wrong. While it is true that I am perfectly able to manage my time, it is also true that there can better ways to do it. A...
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Apr 13, 2010, 7:09 am
There is a lot of buzz around Apple vs Adobe recently. It all started few years ago, when Flash was forbidden on the iPhone. Somebody claims that it started even before. I really don’t want to get into the chronology of the issue. I am just wondering: do I really need to choose? Many people took ...
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Mar 12, 2010, 6:36 am
I was going to write an angry post after some recent experience with Apple customer care service. Now I am writing a happy ending tale with a strong suggestion as final moral: unplug the cable only when necessary or when you need to calibrate the battery. Here is why. After eleven months of usage m...
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Mar 12, 2010, 6:36 am
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Feb 5, 2010, 8:32 am
I recently published a series of tutorials around the topic of “moving stuff” across Adobe Air applications (via copy&paste and drag&drop). Here is the complete list of all the tutorials. Native Drag and Drop in Adobe Air The first tutorial, to get started with drag and drop. Drag and Drop of ...
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Feb 5, 2010, 8:32 am
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Jan 29, 2010, 8:37 am
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Jan 29, 2010, 8:37 am
This is a followup post to the previous one, where we have seen how to copy and paste a complex object across two Adobe Air applications. We will see how to copy and paste more than one object from an Adobe Air application to another. First of all we have to enable multiple selection in our Datagrid...
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Jan 27, 2010, 6:49 am
In Adobe Air you can store data in the object to enable cross application data transfer. We have already had a look at how to copy and paste images. In this tutorial we will see how to copy complex objects. By complex objects we mean a type of object which is not the usual String, but something a bi...
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Jan 27, 2010, 6:49 am
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Jan 22, 2010, 7:30 am
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Jan 22, 2010, 7:30 am
After learning drag and drop we will dig into copy and paste. We have already seen how to use the clipboard class to temporary store data during the drag action. Now we will use the same class to copy and paste an image within an Adobe Air application. We will start with the following layout. This ...
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Jan 19, 2010, 7:04 am
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Jan 19, 2010, 7:04 am
In this tutorial we will see how to show images dragged from the file system into an Adobe Air application. As we have seen in other tutorials to intercept when something is dragged and dropped on an Adobe Air application we need to specify two handlers: nativeDragEnter and nativeDragDrop. To accept...
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Jan 16, 2010, 8:42 am
In a previous tutorial we have seen how to drag and drop images from a native application (Fireworks) to Adobe Air and between two air apps. In this post I will show how to drag and drop text from a document (pdf, html, txt) into a text area of an Adobe Air application. Our application has to speci...
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Jan 16, 2010, 8:42 am
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Jan 14, 2010, 7:06 am
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Jan 14, 2010, 7:06 am
In this tutorial we will learn the basics of native drag and drop in Adobe Air. Specifically we will see two examples: drag an image from a native application (Fireworks) and drop it onto an air application drag an image from an air application and drop it onto another air application We will star...
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Jan 13, 2010, 9:32 am
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Dec 21, 2009, 6:47 am
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Dec 10, 2009, 6:53 am
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Dec 2, 2009, 6:42 am
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Oct 21, 2009, 9:50 am
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Sep 21, 2009, 8:11 am
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Aug 26, 2009, 7:18 am
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Cesare R. posted an article on Spreading Funkyness - Jul 30, 2009, 7:51 am
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