http://blog.darrenstokes.com Thoughts on programming and other things Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:49:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm quite tardy in posting this so I apologize. Here is the code and slides from the presentation I did on Core Data at the Houston iPhone DevCamp on Jan 30. Thanks to everyone that attended. Sample Code Presentation Slides http://blog.darrenstokes.com/2010/02/08/slides-and-code-from-the-iphone-devcamp-core-data-presentation/ This was a question asked at the last NSCoder night. I didn't realize the answer was so easy so I thought I would share it here in case others might not know. Just so appropriate credit is given, Ashley Clark was the one who pointed this out to ... http://blog.darrenstokes.com/2010/01/18/how-do-i-get-a-core-data-sqlite-datastore-off-of-a-test-device/ The Houston iPhone DevCamp is going to be held the weekend of January 30-31 in the space next door to CoffeeGroundz. There will be a total of 12 talks during the day Saturday with a happy hour at the end of the day to celebrate the 1st year of ... http://blog.darrenstokes.com/2010/01/18/houston-iphone-devcamp/ It has been quite a while since I've posted on my blog (too long). I was out of town on business for several weeks during the late Spring and over the Summer so making time for the blog was difficult. I wanted to let anyone who might be interested know ... http://blog.darrenstokes.com/2009/11/28/speaking-at-the-houston-iphone-developers-meeting-dec-15/ I'll be heading to TechEd North America this weekend.  This year it is in Los Angeles.  It has been quite a while since I've been there so I'm really looking forward to it.  Hopefully the flu scare and the economy (and associated budget cuts) won't cut down attendance too drastically. http://blog.darrenstokes.com/2009/05/08/heading-to-teched/ J.P. Hamilton has organized a Coding Dojo that will cover TDD.  It will be held at the Microsoft offices in Houston at 6pm on May 7th.  Space is limited to 40 participants so sign up early if you want to attend. http://blog.darrenstokes.com/2009/04/28/houston-altnet-coding-dojo-on-tdd-may-7-2009/ The product I have been working on, Reference Assistant, was released a few weeks ago.  Reference Assistant is an extension for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 (and soon 2010).  In short, the goal of the product is cut down the time spent debugging runtime errors due to missing dependencies or ... http://blog.darrenstokes.com/2009/04/27/announcing-reference-assistant-10/ Recently I was writing some new functionality that ran work on background threads.  The functionality isn't that important but one of the classes I was using to get the correct behavior was AutoResetEvent.  Specifically the AutoResetEvent.WaitOne() method. Since I really don't use this class very often, I relied on intellisense ... http://blog.darrenstokes.com/2009/03/30/watch-out-for-those-waitone-overloads-when-you-need-backwards-compatibility/ Ben Scheirman has announced that he is putting together a Houston ALT.NET Conference and it will be held at the Microsoft Offices the weekend of April 3-5, 2009.  It will follow the Open Spaces format and it should be good based on my prior history with these sorts of events. ... http://blog.darrenstokes.com/2009/02/02/houston-altnet-conference-coming-in-april/ Over this past weekend, I upgraded a laptop from Vista Ultimate SP1 to the new Windows 7 Beta (both 64-bit).  I decided to throw caution to the wind and forget the whole VM thing.  The upgrade lasted just under 7 hours but, before you think that might be a long ... http://blog.darrenstokes.com/2009/01/12/impressions-of-win7-beta-upgrade-from-vista-ultimate-sp1/