Comments for zacharyc

Comment on Nuances in C: Struct Assignment in C by Priyesh Narayanan

Priyesh Narayanan — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:28:21 +0000

Zachary, two things:
1. What you would find more interesting is that even in C++, this program wouldn’t necessarily depend on the copy constructor – since you only have primitive types in your struct, any decent compiler would in turn let the built-in structure assignment capability take over, instead of generating a copy constructor. This could be called an optimization I guess, and would be compiler dependent. In fact, I was posting something related on my blog.

2. Your program needs correction.

Comment on Photo of the Day: MI6 Building by Richard

Richard — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:04:18 +0000

Ahhh, the motherland…

Comment on Photo of the Day: MI6 Building by Udam Saini

Udam Saini — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:41:43 +0000

Nice photo. I like the look from the river.

Comment on Books: Smart & Gets Things Done by zacharyc » Why I like the iPhone App Store Model

zacharyc » Why I like the iPhone App Store Model — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:23:48 +0000

[...] Lets start with Apple’s brand image. In 1984, during the Superbowl, Apple introduced the Macintosh with a commercial that said “we are against complete control over, we are the company of rebels.” In an age where big companies were completely dominating the market, Apple was trying to change things up. That is what they did the Macintosh. The message presented in that commercial has resonated through the halls of Apple from that day to today. Joel Spolsky mentions this in his book: Smart & Gets Things Done. [...]

Comment on Calling People from a Text Message on the iPhone by zacharyc

zacharyc — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:36:30 +0000

Yeah, that works if your conversation is relatively small, or you clear your conversations on a regular basis. I don’t particularly like to clear my conversations as I sometimes refer to previous comments at a later date. What this means is > 10 seconds of scrolling to get to the top. Maybe some double tap on the name could bring you to the opposite end of the conversation, so I could get to top without having to scroll for forever and a day.

Comment on Calling People from a Text Message on the iPhone by Mike Czepiel

Mike Czepiel — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:08:17 +0000

You could just scroll up to the top of the SMS window and hit the “Call” button.

Comment on Cheer Resource by zacharyc » New Wii Cheerleading Game

zacharyc » New Wii Cheerleading Game — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:29:14 +0000

[...] of my life and I continue to devote countless hours to the sport. I coach, I train, and I work on proliferating the sport. While this game will help in popularizing the sport, it raises several concerns for [...]

Comment on Review of Head Rush AJAX by Mike Czepiel

Mike Czepiel — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:16:33 +0000

Gald you enjoyed the head first format. I’ve found the diagrams and notebook-style scribbles to be really helpful and familiar. It is a shame about the cover, they’re a little off-putting when you consider yourself an experienced developer. That said, once you get over the potential embarrassment of not having an industry-accepted-black-and-white-animal animal on the cover of your tech book you can really learn a lot more effectively with these.

Your note of using a raw eval() for JSON is usually addressed with using a JSON parser as noted in http://www.json.org/js.html

However, most everybody I know is using eval() straight-up so, for better or worse, the example they use is in keeping with what developers will likely see in the real world.

Comment on Villanova Basketball 2008 Season by VUhoops

VUhoops — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:23:51 +0000

Or you can simply add it to your goog calendar from here…
http://vuhoops.blogspot.com/2007/11/2007-08-season-calendar-download.html

Comment on Vacation Trip Preview by Aaron M

Aaron M — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:48:41 +0000

http://www.leftquark.net/Picasa.php

Using the Google API

Still a work in progress.