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My first year at Appcelerator in retrospect

9, Aug 2009

It’s hard to believe, but just barely a year ago I joined Jeff Haynie and crew to work full time at Appcelerator. My original goal was to write Eclipse based development tools for the javascript platform Appcelerator (now Entourage). Obviously things have changed a lot since then, with Titanium taking the company in a whole [...]

CSS 3D Transformations in Titanium Desktop

25, Jul 2009

CSS 3D in Titanium Desktop from Marshall Culpepper on Vimeo.

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Unladen Swallow vs CPython building Titanium

15, Jul 2009

Here’s some completely subjective numbers comparing Unladen Swallow 2009Q2 to the reference C implementation of Python (CPython). No discernable difference in a clean build, and CPython is a good bit faster on a simple update build (i.e. just file copies):

CPython, full clean build:
real 4m39.058s
user 5m55.781s
sys [...]

Using win32 python from cygwin

6, Jul 2009

One of the biggest pains of having to deal with python development in Windows is using the right runtime when running your script. Many scripts will run fine in the python interpreter bundled with Cygwin, but many require the official Python build for windows which understands paths etc correctly.
The problem then, is executing the right [...]

Sleep — what sleep?

10, Dec 2008

It’s been an insane 6 weeks.. building Titanium from literally nothing into the PR1 that we announced early this morning. I’ve been tirelessly hacking away all hours of the day and night since then, and it’s been worth every minute. The media coverage and onslaught of emails, tweets, IRC, and forum mesages alone have made [...]

Geeking out on politics and alternative energy

17, Jan 2008

Well, Christmas and the New Year have come and gone… sorry for a lack of updates, but I’ve been somewhat introverted for the past 2 months. Our new house has finally started to make some headway, we have some new pictures of the initial dirt / framing on our shady shores house flickr photo album.
Now [...]

nokia is my new mobile overload (part deux)

2, May 2006

suffice to say that nokia has been very busy lately with their new phone offerings. sony ericsson is really starting to fall behind and i’m kind of saddened by this, as i’ve been a se loyalist for the past 2 years or so.
anyway, the new leak today of the n83 looks even more promising than [...]


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