Siavash Ghamaty

Version control is a absolute necessity these days, especially in software and web development. It helps manage a the life cycle of the software top down. The process can optimize development, releases, fixes, and enhancements. I personally cannot live with out it on any project, how big or small.

Many developers are writing applications for the Apple App Store in their spare time. Not managed by a team of QA and SCM, these projects could get hairy once put in a large scale platform like the App Store. As your code … Continue Reading

developer.apple.com/iphone

Programming on the Mac is a great experience, I think most developers will agree. Ask those developers that have worked with the Iphone SDK, they will say how wonderful the SDK is. With all the hype, glory, and releases in the Itunes App Store, there has built a ‘I like it except…’ clause in the community. The clause being that tutorials and books are not found online. Lots of questions have been asked, “How does multi touch work?”, “How do applications locate users?”, etc.

The answer is … Continue Reading

The Adobe Cairngorm Site screen shot.

Adobe has finally updated their Cairngorm Open Source Site. Included in their updates, they have added a nice section for tutorials and external documentation. The overall design of the site has gotten a facelift as well.

For those who haven’t used the Cairngorm microarchitecture, give it a try. Personally speaking, it has saved my loads of time in maintenance work.

For a good start, search for a good Cairngorm tutorial. Another great link on Cairngorm, … Continue Reading

Firefox 3 for the Mac

It looks like Adobe or Mozilla fixed some issues with the Flash plugin for Firefox 3 on the Mac, along with adding the “Awesome Bar”. One main issue was disappearing Flash in Firefox 3 where opacity would effect the embed. There is a fix for that particular bug by using a transparent PNG instead of the CSS opacity style. That fix works great, except that IE 6 does not like transparent PNG files, remember to use a PNG fix or … Continue Reading

Welcome everyone to Siavash Ghamaty’s developer’s site and blog. This developer site will focus mainly on Flash/Flex and Cocoa application development. Among custom Flex components and Cocoa views, this site will also be home to soon to be released Iphone game The Brick Escape created by Siavash Ghamaty.