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Creating your own Facebook share button
I recently found out that Facebook no longer offers a “share” button. I think in some cases, the “share” button can give you a better return on your social traffic than a “like” button. I went ahead and wrote up a very short tutorial while I created my button so that you can have your […]
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Storing a Directed Graph in SQL
I recently ran into the problem of having to store a directed graph in MySQL. Actually, I was trying to efficiently store a thesaurus in SQL so that it both used little space and had high performing lookups. A thesaurus, as you probably know, could best be represented as a graph of some type; perhaps […]
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Objective-C Memory Management
Regardless of what your language background is, memory management in Objective-C can be a bit difficult to get a handle on. I won’t claim to be an expert on the topic, since I’m still learning myself, but here’s a few of the things I’ve learned while trying to unravel the complexity lately: There’s a seeming […]
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Using native Objective-C methods for C Callbacks
For the modern Macintosh programmer, given the incredible power of the Objective-C programming language combined with the fact that you can inline C code directly in the Objective-C code, there are few things left wanting … almost. One of these stickly issues is the use of C callbacks; passing the reference of a function to […]