Graham McCarthy - A portfolio, blog, and virtual playground.

ISBN / QR Barcode App open source’d!

Graham — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 19:46:07 +0000

Hi everyone, I’ve been working on a passion project for some time and have not had time to update my blog. I’ve published an article in the Code4Lib journal documenting the process for implementing this ISBN/QR barcode application for your …

ISBN/QR Barcode Scanner for iPhone and Google Android

Graham — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:28:18 +0000

Here is the results of a fun project that a co-worker and I developed for the Ryerson University Library & Archives. I’d seen a bunch of commercial barcode readers that could scan EAN codes and look up price information from …

Falling Space Rocks 2.0 – Update coming soon.

Graham — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:36:21 +0000

2.0 version of Falling Space Rocks coming soon! Free update for those who have purchased the iPhone version. [...]

Falling Space Rocks is on the App Store

Graham — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:14:18 +0000

Falling Space Rocks has been approved and is on the App Store. Check out the games section to view more information about the game and view the game play footage.

iPhone Game Submitted

Graham — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:33:52 +0000

It was quite the process… but I have finally submitted my first iPhone game to the App Store. The process required the creation of many certificates, device provisioning, application signing, and a slew of other technical nitty-gritty details! Now we …

Another reason why I love JQuery

Graham — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:09:34 +0000

Today I was integrating Lightbox 2 into my wordpress instance which caused a conflict between the Prototype and JQuery namespaces. … I made it sound like I knew what the problem was right away, but it did take me some …

The Mobile University: From the Library to the Campus

Graham — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:09:30 +0000

An article written by Sally Wilson, Web Services Librarian at Ryerson and myself has been published in RSR Quarterly. Leave a comment and let me know what you think. [...]

Gone mobile!

Graham — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:05:17 +0000

These disruptive devices are definitely game changers. If you've come here on a blackberry, iPhone, Google Android device, Palm Pre or a variety of other mobile devices [...]

iPhone game coming soon to your iTunes!

Graham — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:13:38 +0000

Over the last 4 months (and in my spare time…) I have been learning how to write Objective-C code in the hopes of one day releasing an iPhone application on the App Store. The main objective is to make enough …

Website Re-design

Graham — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:23:08 +0000

I felt it was necessary to create a new theme for my website. One that would be able to highlight games and web applications that I’ve been developing, and also allow the ability to post project tutorials, ideas, and other …