I finished a freaking marathon!
I ran the 2014 Publix Georgia Marathon in Atlanta on March 23. I got up at 4:00 AM, drove to the MARTA train station, and took the train to Centennial Park, where the race started and finished.
The weather was good for running a …
I am working on an iPad app that uses the ArcGIS Runtime SDK for iOS. Esri provides an easy-to-use installer and instructions for setting up the SDK so that it can be used with Xcode.
The installer puts the SDK files in the user’s home directory, and the setup …
Another annual State of the Kris message:
The biggest change for my family this year was moving from our little mountain cabin in Dahlonega to a house in Cumming. This puts us closer to the schools where Pebble teaches and where Bailey learns. Instead of spending two hours commuting per …
I recently purchased a Garmin Forerunner 110 GPS watch to track my runs. I've been happy with it, but today when I plugged it into my computer after a run, the watch screen flashed "Saving activity" and then went blank. The watch was dead after that.
It had been fully …
A year ago, I was proud of running a 10K. Since then, I've run two half marathons, and I am currently preparing to run the 2014 Publix Georgia Marathon in March.
Here are some things I've learned along the way:
This is a companion piece to my Setting Up a New Mac, My Way entry. Thankfully, I haven't had to use Windows much in the past couple of years, but when I do have to set up a Windows machine for some task that requires it, I want to have …
I ran across a question on Quora: What's the easiest programming bug you spent way too much time trying to solve?.
Here is my answer to that question. Some time during my first few years of programming, I wrote code similar to this little snippet and expected it to print …
Last year, I bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 for use as an Android development/testing device. I didn't expect it to be good, and it wasn't. It was slow, clunky, and ugly in comparison to the iPad, just like every other Android tablet. But it was cheap …
Over the past couple of weeks, I've set up a few Mac OS X machines to do development of iOS and Android apps. Doing this used to be an all-day chore, but things like app stores, iCloud, and Dropbox have streamlined the process a lot.
(I could streamline the process …