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The life and times of Patrick Burleson

Author Archives: Patrick

Holiday Train

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A long time ago, I mentioned in some photos about an awesome holiday train a man in my neighborhood sets up. This year, thanks to my handy-dandy iPhone 4, I was able to get a decent video put together. As you can see, it’s quite elaborate and the kids absolutely love it! The train runs […]

Walls Family Farm 2010

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Last year, we decided to start a family tradition of going out and cutting down our Christmas tree. Our great friends Jerry and Kris Scott told us about this farm they went to called the Walls Family Farm. We decided to go and had a great time. This year, we started down the path of […]

New beginnings

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At the end of October, I decided to make a rather large change in my life: I quit my day job to pursue iOS contracting full time. An opportunity presented itself that would allow me to work from home while developing an iOS application for a large company. This would also lend itself to allowing […]

links for 2010-12-10

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mpoauthconnection (tags: OAuth Cocoa)

links for 2010-11-21

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davextreme – Configuring AirPort Extreme to Work With Blizzard Downloader (tags: WoW AirportExtreme)

links for 2010-11-16

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Getting Your SSD Back to Full Speed in OSX « Jason Nash’s Blog (tags: SSD OSX)

links for 2010-11-14

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ASIHTTPRequest Documentation – All-Seeing Interactive Fast networking class to help replace NSURLConnection (tags: Cocoa Networking iPhone OSX)

links for 2010-09-27

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Nick Farina – iOS Icon Template for Perfectionists (tags: iOS Icons)

links for 2010-09-04

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WhatsNewInLeopard – MacRuby (tags: Ruby OSX Leopard)

links for 2010-08-03

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Capo 2.0 (tags: guitar music awesome)

links for 2010-05-26

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IPhone URL Schemes A bunch of 3rd party URLs for use on the iPhone. (tags: iphone development)

Brenden’s 4th Birthday Party

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Funny how the time flies and you only post links to your blog. Heck, it wasn’t even me. It’s an automated thing. Well, here’s a honest to goodness actual post! Friday, my little guy turned 4. He’s growing up so fast now. We took him to Chuck E. Cheese’s that night for some fun and […]

links for 2010-04-29

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Easy custom UITableView drawing (tags: UITableView iPhone Cocoa)

links for 2010-04-17

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Resize a UIImage the right way (tags: iPhone UIImage)

links for 2010-03-30

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Paging-enabled UIScrollView With Previews – Feelin' Fine (tags: iphone development scrollview)

links for 2010-03-26

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Pro Git – Table of Contents (tags: git book) A successful Git branching model (tags: git workflow) Agile git Workflow (tags: git workflow)

links for 2010-03-10

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Testing View Controllers (tags: iPhone Testing TDD)

links for 2010-03-04

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Black Belt Productivity – Balancing Life, Focusing Productivity, Achieving More (tags: GTD) How To Market Your Mobile Application – Smashing Magazine (tags: iPhone marketing)

links for 2010-03-03

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Epilogue Ei8ht – Protecting oneself from a crappy client (tags: freelacing tips)

links for 2010-02-25

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Completion Dictionary Completion Dictionary is a free Xcode plugin that enhances Xcode’s built-in code completion mechanism. You simply type a few letters – either the abbreviation of a macro or the initials of a symbol name – and press the completion shortcut. Completion Dictionary will do the rest. (tags: Xcode Utility)