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		<title>Facebook for iPhone Should Use The &#8220;Email&#8221; Keyboard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A personal pet peeve of mine (and millions of others?) is that the Facebook Connect for iPhone login screen (which is how every Facebook app logs in, including Scrabble and all my own iPhone apps like Puzzle Jewels and Puzzle Jewels World Edition) uses the default keyboard type for entering you username instead of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bratton.com/index.php/2010/04/08/facebook-for-iphone-should-use-the-email-keyboard/</link>
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		<title>Tips on Using UIGlassButton to Make Shiny Glass iPhone Buttons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Erica Sadun linked to Jonathan Wight&#8217;s nifty use of a private UIGlassButton class to make shiny &#8220;glass&#8221; iPhone buttons, and here are a few tricks on using it well. First up, I like making a new Utility Application in XCode for this, because you can plug Jonathan&#8217;s code into the showInfo method.  When you run [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bratton.com/index.php/2010/02/19/tips-on-using-uiglassbutton-to-make-shiny-glass-iphone-buttons/</link>
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		<title>Fast iPhone Clipboard Manager &#8211; Snippets!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My iPhone app &#8220;Snippets&#8221; went out a few days ago, and I was lucky enough to get a mention in TUAW, The Unofficial Apple Weblog! A nice quote from the article: &#8220;The canned responses included with Snippets are worth its price of $.99 alone, in this blogger&#8217;s opinion. But even if you are wittier than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bratton.com/index.php/2009/07/09/fast-iphone-clipboard-manager-snippets/</link>
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		<title>iPhone FrozenBubble</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My port of FrozenBubble to the iPhone has finally been approved, after about two weeks of waiting.  There were some interesting coding hoops to jump through, as this was a port of a javascript version which already worked in mobile Safari (thanks Glenn Hanson!), and I was converting it to run completely local/embedded in an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bratton.com/index.php/2009/01/29/iphone-frozenbubble/</link>
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		<title>Firefly eBook Now Available on the iPhone!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve read a lot of books by Steven Brust, mostly his Vlad Taltos series.  I stumbled across his website at some point when I was in the midst of serious Firefly withdrawal, after having just finished watching all the TV episodes and then Serenity for a capper.  I had been searching for more Firefly stories [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bratton.com/index.php/2009/01/20/firefly-ebook-now-available-on-the-iphone/</link>
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		<title>iPhone Invalid Binary Error &#8211; Fixed?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The dreaded binary error has bitten me&#8230; &#8220;The binary you uploaded was invalid. The signature was invalid, or it was not signed with an Apple submission certificate.&#8221; Okay, in one case, it was actually valid, as I had been using an icon file that wasn&#8217;t named Icon.png and wasn&#8217;t 57&#215;57.  Thanks to Sean for helping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bratton.com/index.php/2009/01/17/iphone-invalid-binary-error-fixed/</link>
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		<title>iPhone AppStore Open For Apps That Vibrate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After Apple started letting in fart apps recently, it was only a matter of time&#8230;   Flatulence was criteria 5 on the Unofficial App Store Rejection Criteria list.  With farting given the all-clear, I figured more of those criteria would start to open up.  And apparently vibration is now acceptable! 30 Second Massage is now in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bratton.com/index.php/2008/12/30/iphone-appstore-open-for-apps-that-vibrate/</link>
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		<title>Oracle with Java &#8211; update your JDBC driver now!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some quick testing with JMeter showed me that under some serious load on my webapp (100 Tomcat threads, 300 queries a second, some with multi-table joins), the Oracle 11 JDBC driver performs much better than the Oracle 9 JDBC driver, even against a 9i database.  This isn&#8217;t a set of benchmarking results, which I know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bratton.com/index.php/2008/12/07/oracle-with-java-update-your-jdbc-driver-now/</link>
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		<title>TowerSmash for the iPhone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a hobby project, my brother Alex and I wrote a game for little kids called TowerSmash.  I wanted to write a game, well really more of a toy, that was truly meant for little kids.  So  many &#8220;kid games&#8221; on the iPhone seem to have little buttons all over the place and levels that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bratton.com/index.php/2008/10/20/towersmash-for-the-iphone/</link>
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		<title>Wide Finder 2 in Java</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to give WF2 a decent shot in Java, to see how it compares to the funky OCaml / Scala / Ruby versions that other people were making. It runs pretty well, about 15 minutes, and isn&#8217;t that complex. Okay, I did make it a single class file just to be simpler, but OO [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bratton.com/index.php/2008/06/10/wide-finder-2-in-java/</link>
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