Author Archives: Lane Roathe

About Lane Roathe

I make my living designing, producing, and programming computer software. I have done work on numerous platforms, including MacOS, Win95/NT, Apple //, Super Nintendo, Sega, and others; writing mainly games but also operating systems, applications, utilities, etc. I have started and run several companies, currently operating Ideas From the Deep and working at Quicken, inc on Quicken for Mac.

Restoring playback of Sound Effects in Lion (ex: iChat doesn’t play alert messages)

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Lane Roathe

I recently switch my full time OS from SL to Lion and one of the bugs I have noticed is that anytime I let Lion put my Mac Pro to sleep I loose playback of all sound effects. For instance … Continue reading →

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How to manage iOS Provisioning Profiles

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Lane Roathe

How to manage iOS Provisioning Profiles While the process of managing iOS Provisioning profiles continues to be refined by Apple, it still is not a totally obvious process, especially when it comes to some of the finer details like updating … Continue reading →

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iPhone 4 Reception; better than any before or worthy of a lawsuit?

Posted on July 10, 2010 by Lane Roathe

So, unless you have been living in a cave for the past few weeks, I’m sure you’ve seen a lot of reporting going on about the new iPhone 4 and it’s reception issues, maybe you’ve even read a few of … Continue reading →

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FedEx ruins my iPhone 4 day :(

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Lane Roathe

So I was lucky enough to get in (after a lot of trying mind you!) and order my iPhone 4 via Apple’s website before the Jun 24th delivery date got pushed back. Hurray!   Everything was looking fine, and yesterday … Continue reading →

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When it rains it pours!

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Lane Roathe

So I’d been looking for my next opportunity for a while, being quite picky about the opportunities I pursued. I found several very interesting opportunities, and one in NY (which has numerous posts on iphone/cocoa dev lists) that seemed really … Continue reading →

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OOP != classes, but may == DOD

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Lane Roathe

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm that uses “objects” – data structures consisting of datafields and methods together with their interactions. I was reading an interesting article today about a design methodology that I’ve been practicing since 1982, “Data … Continue reading →

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The Bank is available on iTunes!

Posted on January 4, 2010 by Lane Roathe

Our latest title is available on iTunes. It took one week to get it approved, and that included the entire time iTunesConnect was closed down! Anyway, here’s the info on the game: Story: The economic recession of 2008 was not … Continue reading →

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Christmas Wish List

Posted on December 19, 2009 by Lane Roathe

For any of you still looking for something to get me for Christmas, here are a few ideas: Acura NSX Kepler Motion Lotus Evora Tesla Roadster Mazda RX-7 3rd Gen

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How to background load and cache UIImageViews images

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Lane Roathe

It’s often the case that the apps I am working on are required to download quite a couple, or even a few dozen, images and display them in a UIImageView. In looking online I found a few different methods of … Continue reading →

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It sure does snow in Kansas!

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Lane Roathe

This week I am visiting my Grandmother in Kansas. Monday night I arrived at the farm just as the first snow was falling, and by Tuesday morning I couldn’t have left if I wanted to. Here are some pictures of … Continue reading →

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