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Pilgrim's Progress
http://smeans.com
About nine years ago I realized that my time was the biggest limiting factor when it came to accomplishing my goals, so I'd better start figuring out ways to make more of it (so to speak). I'm a big fan of David Allen's book, Getting Things Done, and I'm constantly working on ways to be more efficient and focused on what I need to do to accomplish my goals.
As for who I am, my name is Scott Means. If you Google me, I'm the one that writes computer books, not the Native American actor. I'm a father, a writer, a programmer, a jujitsuka, a billiards player, a pilot, and a compulsive learner (as you might have guessed).
- Added on: Oct 6th, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Scott Means
- Listed in: Development and Growth Meme
- Tags: kids martial arts coding getting things done billiards jiujitsu
Recent Posts
I’m a guest blogger!
Check it out, I’m on the Quintesocial blog: http://www.meetbarb.com/2009/10/guest-blogger-scott-means.html...
Core data model migration on the iPhone.
Doing something as simple as adding a new attribute to an entity in your Core Data model will break your application when it comes to opening older persistent data stores. Core Data has some support for automatic migration, documented in the “I...
Coolibah!
I was on the phone with my friend tonight, and I realized that I haven’t put any links to my latest iPhone project on the blog. Oops! Here’s a demo video showing Coolibah, the iPhone scrapbooking project I’m doing with my sister Bob...
My MySQL tool is on softpedia.com.
I just got the notice today. I wrote this bulk row insert tool for MySQL that is designed to run over the Internet. It’s for really large data sets being loaded into … ahem … inexpensive hosted MySQL databases. Check out the mysqlxf...
Roll-your-own iPhone framework.
After starting work on my latest iPhone app (#6 or so), I finally decided it was time to get more efficient with my existing library of code. I’ve been building various helper classes for manipulating bitmaps, etc, and I wanted to be able to sh...
iPhone programming: fun with grayscale images.
So I was trying to do something that I thought was simple. I needed to convert an image from full color to grayscale in my iPhone application, and I easily found the CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceGray method which seemed to put me on the right track. But t...
