Michelangelo Capraro

is hard.

i have presented work to clients for years. almost 20. i rarely get psyched out by it. am ever only slightly nervous.  presenting kidoodle apps stuff however has me totally flummoxed, totally stumbling for words. why is it so hard? one theory is that it’s so near and dear to my heart, so personal and… Read the Rest

i hate that every time i go to another page in jqm, the page scrolls to the top. i understand why it does that, but it still bugs me. so here’s a dirty hack for you. (and yes, it involves setting the next page to fixed position… eeeeeeewwwwwww) it ait pretty, but it works.  function… Read the Rest

it just is.

so i found this great starting point for adding swipe row functionality to jquery mobile lists basically, bind a function to a swipe event and then have that function remove the swipe binding, add a close function binding (a reverse of that swipe) then do some animation on that list row by appending some absolutely positioned dom… Read the Rest

working on prototyping a web app in jquery mobile and lots of searches to work around or get the right answer for certain little nitpicky issues… Splash Screens on iOS ok, here is a good rundown of the right tags for iOS splashscreens when the app is in web app mode. NOTE: the images have… Read the Rest

…so i can keep track of the stuff i fix, discover, bang my head against. maybe there will be useful stuff for others. most likely just stuff i will search for again in a few months on another project 😉

just read a new review of my app, and its the only 1-star review, and they actually liked the app but didnt like the background music. so they 1-starred it. never contacted me about the issue (there is a support link on the app store page even). ugh.

man, why these inconsistencies in air 3.2? i want the speed and i’m happy to have it, but i dont want to spend hours debugging the dev tools. c’mon adobe! for mobile app devs using AIR 3.2, if you are testing and getting a black screen, and you have renderMode=direct and fullscreen=true, then set rendermode=cpu… Read the Rest

so in AIR 3, i made the switch from CPU mode to GPU mode and saw a little bump. it was running well in CPU mode already so i stayed there as previous to AIR 3, GPU mode didn’t work constantly. now, AIR 3.2 changes it again. GPU mode flies, but all draw commands are… Read the Rest

While kicking off Kidoodle Pirate development again (working on in-app purchase finally) i futzed around with certificates for way too long. if you are developing on a new machine, on a new mac, then you need to regenerate your certificate request, then revoke your certs on the apple dev portal, then request new certificates, then… Read the Rest

i’ve been away for weeks from working on Kidoodle Apps. its been hard. i really enjoy working on my apps, but the bills gotta get paid and i don’t yet have enough apps to sustain me doing this full time. so clients have to come first still. and i have been 100% on client work… Read the Rest