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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 the [...]]]></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 I and [...]]]></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 me with [...]]]></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 the [...]]]></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, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bratton.com/index.php/2008/06/10/wide-finder-2-in-java/</link>
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		<title>Apache Derby Data Corruption</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It saddens me to say, but after a year of fiddling with Apache Derby, working around its quirks, making a custom statement cache so that it&#8217;s not so frickin&#8217; slow, that it&#8217;s finally time to call it quits and move on to something else.
Data corruption&#8230; Over the past year, I have been using Derby as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bratton.com/index.php/2007/11/12/apache-derby-data-corruption/</link>
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