Mad-Dog-Software

Having problems with git-merge?

maddogsoftware — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 05:14:32 +0000

If you’re having issues with git merge try this command:

git pushpull remote ^^:0:/origin/reset★★★--blue

I ran that and it solved all my issues. It’s a little bit counterintuitive but then so is every other git command so it shouldn’t be a problem.

UIImage processing using vDSP/Accelerate framework

maddogsoftware — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 10:42:18 +0000

Image processing on mobiles can be pretty performance intensive given the relatively low power of their CPU’s (as compared to desktops).

In order to get reasonable processing speeds for my application Bokeh Booth I decided to build some efficient UIImage extensions which make use of the vDSP routines in the iOS 4 and up Accelerate framework. This framework allows for efficient matrix based image processing on iPhone/iPad devices, even those without OpenGL shader support.

You can grab a copy of all my routines here: https://github.com/gdawg/uiimage-dsp

The github repository contains a UIImage Category with the dsp processing routines and an example app showing how to call the routines.

I’ve tried to make the routines as easy as possible to use, for example you can blur an image using code as simple as
UIImage* src = [UIImage imageNamed:@"image.png"]; UIImage* blurred = [src imageByApplyingGaussianBlur3x3];

At this stage the library is still very much in it’s infancy but there’s support for blur/sharpen/2pass Gaussian Blur/emboss functions with the potential for many more to come.

The two pass Gaussian filter is particularly fast compared to any trivial implementation in software.

The github repository contains an example project showing usage:

If you use the library anywhere I’d love to hear about it. Also if you have any bugfixes or ideas on improvements I’d love to hear them too!

email me

Andrew.

Found a great sample iPhone “Pull to Refresh” project and blog article

maddogsoftware — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:05:30 +0000

If you’re looking to implement “Pull to Refresh” style functionality in your iPhone project you could do worse than to take a look at

http://blog.leahculver.com/2010/12/iphone-pull-to-refresh.html

I’ve already made use of some of the code there and pointed one other on iphonedevsdk.com.

Good stuff Leah.

app store submissions failing with error “filename may not contain whitespace”

maddogsoftware — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 02:42:28 +0000

If (like me) you’re using Xcode 3.2.5 and see this error when trying to submit an app for approval It’s worth knowing that this seems to be the result of a bug introduced in this version of xcode.

There’s a great writeup at useyourloaf.com

In summary the workaround is:

Build and archive the app with Xcode
Use the organiser to export an IPA file
Run /Developer/Applications/Utilities/Application Loader and submit the app using this

How to compile scantool 1.13 for Ubuntu 10.10

maddogsoftware — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:58:17 +0000

I recently embarked on the challenge of getting scantool compiled under Ubuntu (10.10 – netbook edition) so that I could try out the OBD-II diagnostics on my car.

Since there were a few changes needed to make it work (and since it also relies on a compiled version of dzcomm) I thought it might be useful to others if I shared my updated/compiling version.

Follow the link below to download the source for both dzcomm and scantool 1.13, modified to compile under Ubuntu.

scantool – 1.13 source to compile for ubuntu 10.10
(http://github.com/gdawg/scantool-ubuntu)

Please let me know if you find it useful or think anything needs updating.

The original source can be found here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/scantool/files/

Most of the credit this info belongs here: http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:scantool

Edward or Jacob: who do Android users choose?

maddogsoftware — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:50:46 +0000

Thanks to my android application twipaper I’m in a great position to judge this particular question.

Since the app already needs to be net-connected in order to download pictures I added flurry tracking to count views for pictures of Edward, Jacob… or Bella.

Edward vs Jacob - who do android users prefer?

WOW! Edward wins hands down! 50% vs 30%.

I had hoped to produce an iPhone/Android users comparison but apple put the kibosh on this by refusing to release the iphone version of twipaper (copyright fears).

For those interested in the app search for “twipaper” on the android market.

Openfeint 2.5.1 killed my iPad autorotation!

maddogsoftware — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:11:18 +0000

Problems with shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation: when using OpenFeint 2.5.1?
read on!

After adding Openfeint to my BoxMaster game (currently pending app store approval) I noticed that iPad view rotation had stopped working.

This struck me as odd so I did a little digging to find the culprit!

It turns out that Openfenit adds a UIView (and associated UIViewController which does not support auto-rotation) to your root window to work around a particular menu bug. Thankfully this bug only manifests if your application does NOT use any view controllers.

The bottom line here is:
if your application already contains a view controller, you can safely remove this code.

Change: Openfeint.mm

    
 [self fixInCaseOfNoViewControllers];

to this:

    
 // disabled due to auto rotation issues, I promise that I already have a view controller    
 // [self fixInCaseOfNoViewControllers];

Doing so restored my applications rotation behaviour and all is well in the world.

Hope this helps someone out!

iPhone, Android, Web Applications

maddogsoftware — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:23:47 +0000

Hi there!

Our official home on the web has moved to http://mad-dog-software.com/

This blog will continue to exist but will become more technically focused with development articles and updates.

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