Labs

In an attempt to learn about CoreData to maintain persistent data on the iPhone I followed this tutorial. (I recommend following it and then opening up some of the provided examples from Apple that illustrate the use of CoreData.) Indeed it has a good deal of descriptions on how it all fits together and gave me great insight on how to implement a persistent Model.

However, once I completed the tutorial to a point where I was able to build and run, the app was crashing and I was perplexed as to why. So I started with what the Debugger was telling me.

Something has been going on in the Ship's kitchen during the past few weeks. After we got a new rack for our knives they had just been randomly dangling around in the beginning, enjoying their existence as cutting utensils. Nobody knows when it started exactly, but like crop circles in a corn field, the blades suddenly started getting a life of their own. On each trip for some caffeine there would be a new formation.

What apparently started off as tidying up the workspace quickly evolved into a silent battle of knives. The great thing was that no body ever talked about the arrangements and the interaction was completely anonymous. It is still unclear who contributed, but about halfway through people started documenting everything on camera. My thanks go out to all the nameless knife shufflers. Hit the more link for the pictures.

The usual flash sites that we build contain tons of huge graphics, animations, dynamic motion, videos, timeline transitions as well as tons of code, utilizing huge open source libraries like papervision 3d, tweening engines and so on.

We want everyone to be able to use their preferred design/dev environment to ensure a fast way to produce innovative high quality work. That includes using the Flash IDE and still being able to use Flex/Flash Builder as a developer.