Part of the series Milestones in Music (1994) Another revolution that blew my mind completely from the first note. I remember hearing Glory Box on the radio on the way to the ski slopes, instantly pulling over and scrabbling for a pen and paper in the glove box… I was not going to miss the…
Catchy title, sure. I don’t write that as a universal truth but as my experience from developing my first iPhone app, Extraction.
So what is it?
In a word (or two): Memory Warnings
With iOS 4, Apple pushes everyone to build our apps so that we preserve the state of the application when it terminates. This is because to the normal user there is no difference between an app being “pushed” to the background and an app being terminated. Apple want the users to feel like our apps never terminate. That they just leave them in the background a while.
I’ll explain how I implemented this behaviour using NSUserDefaults in my app, Extraction. It may not be the most advanced technique or the best in any way. I just know it works for me.
Part of the series Milestones in Music (1994) I heard Better Things on the cover-CD from some magazine. I forget which. Tracy’s voice and the very stylized music gripped me instantly. Protection is probably still my favorite album by Massive Attack. It sets itself apart from all other albums they have made by the very…
Part of the series Milestones in Music (1992) What a groundbreaking album. Still the best one from Prodigy in my mind. I don’t really care for the electro-punk type stuff of recent years. I bought a Roland sampler in, like 1998. It was the rack-mount sibling to Liams favorite W30 sampler. Anything you sampled into…
Part of the series Milestones in Music (1991) This song was a mystery to me for a long time. I would see part of the fantastic video on MTV every now and then. Awestruck every time. Both by the one-take video, the singing and the music. It was only after buying Protection that I realised…
Part of the series Milestones in Music (1990) This album was really one of a kind at the time. I think it turned me towards a lot of “Chillout” -type music and was one of the albums that inspired me technically. Samplers could make evocative tunes? Who knew?
Part of the series Milestones in Music (1990) This was the first CDs I ever bought. I always liked Public Enemy but this is one of the few albums of theirs I’ve bought. I know every sound, every beat and every rhyme by heart. Epic Hip Hop.
Part of the series Milestones in Music (1988) I listened to the soundtrack for at least a few years before I managed to see the actual film. I really love that a lot of dialogue is left on top of the music but I also wish I could listen to the score on its own.…
Part of the series Milestones in Music (1979) My favorite album during early childhood. I still listen to this one a lot. I just never got bored with it. I remember thinking the album was about Star Wars. The marching on Waiting For The Worms and The Trial were storm troopers and “the defendant” in…