Zach Holmquist

Musings of a Salt Lake City Web Developer

Archive for July, 2009

My New Love : Fluid Browser

I have spent months finding the perfect Mail client, I tried: Apple Mail, Thunderbird, Postbox, MailPlane, etc. Yet I always would come back to the web based interface for Gmail. My biggest issue though – as with any web app – is the fact I have to keep it contained within my browser of choice. [...]

Building Walt’s Dream- Video of Disneyland’s Construction

I have mentioned it on my Twitter Stream – I am a Disney Geek. Without shame I spent a few hours watching some POV’s of different rides in preparation for our Disney World trip in August. While in the midst of awful cam footage, I came across a little gem on YouTube that shows incredible [...]

Selenium Grid on Leopard OSX 10.5.7

It has been a long week at Neutron Interactive. We ran into quite a few issues on some of our site paths that reaffirmed my hatred for Internet Explorer ( any version ) and all things Microsoft. The CSS errors were mildly quick fixes – except for some nasty PNG link disabling – but all [...]

Augmented Reality on the iPhone

As mentioned in my last post, Augmented Reality is going to be a game changer in the mobile space. The ability to tie reality and online data based on location and direction is simply amazing – we are just at the tip of the iceberg of what is possible in this realm.
I was flipping [...]

Small Appearance in the Deseret News

A couple of Sundays ago, I made a small appearance in an article in the Deseret News ( page 2 ). Jason Izatt, of local iPhone notoriety, had referred the writer to me since I help run the iPhone Salt Lake User Group. It was interesting to see what was gleaned from our interview [...]

iPhone 3.0 CoreData : Where the heck is the Data?

I attended a training for iPhone App Development, where I was introduced to the kinda complex world of CoreData – which was recently added to iPhone OS 3.0. I was hooked the moment the incredibly smart and local Cocoa Genius Dave Delong mentioned that CoreData is a better way to store data – heck – even [...]